SF Playhouse's <i>Barbecue</i> sizzles
Anne Darragh, Bill English, Clive Worsley, Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, local theater, Margo Hall, plays, Robert O'Hara, San Francisco Playhouse, Susi Damilano, theater review Anne Darragh, Bill English, Clive Worsley, Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, local theater, Margo Hall, plays, Robert O'Hara, San Francisco Playhouse, Susi Damilano, theater review

SF Playhouse's Barbecue sizzles

Robert O'Hara is one of those playwright/directors who, when his name is attached to a project in any way, you pay attention. He's smart, funny and has a keen eye for theatrical disruption. His Insurrection: Holding History may have played at American Conservatory Theater almost 20 years ago, but it remains one of the wildest, most wonderful things I've seen from that company.

O'Hara – the playwright – is back in town with Barbecue, the first show in San Francisco Playhouse's 15th season, and here's what's on the grill: ...

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Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, Edward P- Jones, Joel Mullennix, local theater, Margo Hall, plays, theater review, Velina Brown, Word for Word Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, Edward P- Jones, Joel Mullennix, local theater, Margo Hall, plays, theater review, Velina Brown, Word for Word

Wonderful women in Word for Word's Aunt Hagar

What you remember from Word for Word's production of All Aunt Hagar's Children, a full theatrical adaptation of the short story by Edward P. Jones, are the women. Such women. They make an impression on the audience the way they make an impression the story's narrator, a nameless young man who returned to his native Washington, D.C., nine months ago after serving in the Korean War.

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