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Moxie’s ‘Handbagged’ Cast Makes a Must-See

By Bill Eadie | October 28, 2019 |

Playwright Moira Buffini has written Handbagged about the relationship between Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Moxie Theatre is producing its West Coast premiere. The company has given this premiere a prestige production, and that strategy has paid off…

Fair to middlin’ ‘Walk in the Woods’ Is a ‘Zoo Story’ for the Trump-Putin Age

By Martin Jones Westlin | June 10, 2019 |

The nuclear age comes wrapped in a sea of pacts, treaties, eleventh-hour phone calls, banner headlines, gleaming host cities, worn-through bargaining tables, heartfelt promises and outright lies. Lee Blessing’s ‘A Walk in the Woods’ tries to explain some of it — but the current North Coast Repertory Theatre entry doesn’t know which part it wants to play.

Rep’s ’60s Anthem ‘Steal Heaven’ Rings True

By Martin Jones Westlin | January 15, 2015 |

If you remember the 1960s (some of us don’t, after all), you’ll remember Abbie Hoffman, a leader in counterculture thought — and with its world-premiere ‘Steal Heaven,’ San Diego Repertory Theatre has not only drawn a good bead on Hoffman but the importance of dissension’s very place in the American experience.