Between Take My Wife—her first TV series on the NBC streaming channel Seeso—a web series on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls network, and appearances at SF Sketchfest, 2016 is shaping up to be an enormous year for comedian Rhea Butcher. As one of a growing number of stand-ups signed to Portland’s Kill Rock Stars label, Butcher […]
Rebecca Waits
Posted inComedy
Rhea Butcher Is Killing It
The Kill Rock Stars Comedian Talks Streaming Comedy and Beautiful Suits
The Kill Rock Stars comedian talks streaming comedy and beautiful suits.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Idris Goodwin’s Hip-Hop Musical: Way More Than a Catchy Conceit
In How We Got On, a History of Hip-Hop—and Survival
In How We Got On, a history of hip-hop—and survival.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Drunk in Love
Post5 Theatre Revives Shakespeare’s Original Romcom
Post5 Theatre revives Shakespeare’s original romcom, Much Ado About Nothing.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Lost in Translaption: The Liar at Artists Rep
Owen Carey The Liar gets laughs—SMART, sophisticated, European laughs! (Also fart jokes.) Closing out this season with a period piece, Artists Repertory Theatre presents one of American playwright David Ives’ modern “translaptations” (his portmanteau: translation + adaptation) of a 17th-century French comedy. The Liar, by French tragedian Pierre Corneille, thought lost to the ages, was […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Inflammatory Wit
Slander and Insults Fly at The School for Lies
Slander and insults fly at The School for Lies.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Artist Rep’s Tribes Examines the Hierarchies of Ability, Class, Language, and Love
Owen Carey Amy Newman and Stephen Drabicki in Tribes at Artists Repertory Theatre. At Artist Repertory Theatre’s black-box Alder Stage, we’re plopped down into a kitchen with a dysfunctional British family, as its youngest adult son struggles to keep up with the commotion of another day’s bickering: Billy, who is deaf, comes from a hearing […]