Theatre + Covid = Confusion
by Charles Kruger Since 2009, I have attended over 600 plays in the Bay Area. That’s an average of four plays a month for over a decade. We attend to what we love. I have been in love with theatre since childhood, having arrived on the planet in 1956.…
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Review: ‘The Cassandra Sessions: Recording This World”, a world premier from Shotgun Players (***1/2)
by Charles Kruger “The Cassandra Sessions: Recording This World,” which opened at the Ashby Stage on December 4th, is perhaps best approached as a brilliant “work-in-progress.” As it stands now, it is somewhat baffling, riveting in some moments, dull in others, but always intelligent and well-executed. A mysterious figure…
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Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ presented by BroadwaySF at the Golden Gate Theatre (*****)
by Sarah Kobrinsky “A Christmas Carol” is the perfect show to see as we come out of Covid isolation and return to the theatre. Jack Thorne’s fresh adaptation of Scrooge’s dark night of the soul where he is visited by the ghosts of his past, present and future, is…
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Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night,’ a musical adaptation at SF Playhouse (*****)
by Charles Kruger “Twelfth Night” seems to be everybody’s favorite Shakespearean comedy. And why wouldn’t it be? The hapless, puritanical Malvolio, mercilessly tricked and humiliated by his arch-nemesis Sir Toby Belch and Belch’s beloved, the servant Maria, is probably one of the funniest characters ever created for the English…
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