Pericles, Prince of Tyre: TBA’s Editors’ Pick
From Sam Hurwitt in the March/April 2013 issue of Theatre Bay Area: Even for a company more geared toward contemporary work than the classics, it’s been a surprisingly long time since Berkeley Rep staged a Shakespeare play – since Much Ado About Nothing in 2001. Not that the company does that much of the Bard in general, at least not anymore: It staged just two of his plays in the 1990s, three in the ’80s, and a whopping 11 way back in the ’70s, when it was geared toward old plays in general. It’s been just about as long since acclaimed British director Mark...
Read MoreMarat/Sade is a Theatre Bay Area Editor’s Pick!
Marat/Sade is an Editor’s Pick in the current Theatre Bay Area issue hitting newsstands now. Sam Hurwitt: “San Francisco’s Thrillpeddlers deal in decadence, whether it’s the gory Grand Guignol that they made a name for themselves with or the campy drag revivals of old Cockettes musicals that have become long-running hits for the company. And there are few more decadent plays than Peter Weiss’s The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. Usually...
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