Between catching up from our four month Asia trip, weeklong trips to LA and New York, finishing my book (which is scheduled for September publication) and the winding down of Joyce’s consulting career, we missed all too much of what was going on in our adopted home town of San Francisco: restaurant openings, museum and […]
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Chicago Theater Update
The March, at the Steppenwolf Theater, is an adaptation of an E.L. Doctorow novel on William Tecumseh Sherman’s Civil War’s March to the Sea. Although the history was interesting, we found some of the characters around whom this history was artificially and unconvincingly wrapped, to be unlikable and uninteresting. To make things worse, we had […]
No Sleep and the McKittrick Hotel
After spending an evening of Sleep No More at the mysterious McKittrick Hotel, we are not quite sure what we experienced. It is part haunted mystery house, part theater, part performance art, part cabaret and a whole lot of fun. Sleep No More is a self-guided tour, in which masked and totally silent guests explore […]
Our Preview of the 2012 Tony Awards
We timed this New York trip around the opening of two specific plays, Death of a Salesman and The Columnist. We were going to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman in this role regardless of the reviews. While initial reviews were tepid (portraying the production and the acting as more clinical than emotive, subsequent reviews have gotten […]
San Francisco Theater: A Study in Diversity
We love theater and try to take every opportunity to try anything that looks interesting. Unfortunately, between travel and local obligations, we have to be selective. Luckily, the San Francisco offerings are sufficiently diverse, that we can always find a range of experiences. For example, over the last couple weeks, we have seen …