Steve Murray

1 week ago | broadwayworld.com | Steve Murray

Marin Theatre concludes its 24-25 season with Mara Nelson Greenberg’s Do You Feel Anger?, about an empathy coach hired to train workers at a debt collection agency facing major lawsuits for their abusive communication skills. It starts out smart and funny, with people barely able to understand feelings much less empathy for others. But it quickly degrades into a barrage of ugly interactions with no resolutions. Is this absurdism, satire, or farce?

1 week ago | broadwayworld.com | Steve Murray

John Fisher’s crime thriller and coming out story returns to San Francisco after sold out first run at Theatre Rhinoceros. Developed during the COVID pandemic lockdown, this one-man show has Fisher playing about a dozen characters and running the technical aspects of the show as well. It’s like watching Oz’s man behind the curtain become the show, manipulating lights, sound and queuing the audience for additional sound effects.

2 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Steve Murray

There was a palpable buzz pre-show at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater for the world premiere of a new hip-hop musical, a buzz that turned to excitement and joy once the curtain rose and the opening number commenced. Wildly creative, bristling with kinetic energy, beautifully staged and excellently acted, Co-Founders successfully merges the sounds and movements of hip hop with an engaging story of AI entrepreneurship.

2 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Steve Murray

A musically gifted daughter feeling neglected and invisible. A dutiful husband struggling to cope, and the ghost of a dead child waiting for recognition before ascending. These are the emotionally devastated characters orbiting Diana Goodman, wife, and mother coping with mental illness.

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Steve Murray

Before JVB was a sensation in New York City ( Tony-nomination (2007) GLAAD (2000), Obie (2001), Bessie (2004), Ethyl (2007), and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2012) awards, and 2024 MacArthur Fellow), they were a cherished counterculture icon in San Francisco. A sold-out residency at Feinstein’s saw JVB at their finest, still commanding the stage with wit, brazen honesty, and impeccable material.