Author: Evan Karp

by Evan Karp Playing now at the American Conservatory Theater is John Rando’s staging of Alan Ayckbourn’s Round and Round the Garden, a comical sex farce and character study set in early 1970s England. The pre-existing rapport of A.C.T.s resident core acting company exploits Ayckbourn’s ability to create strong characters and is the driving force…

by Evan Karp Morris Panych’s Vigil, being staged now at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, is at once tender and dark and funny, a series of extended punchlines replete with pathos and unwavering conjecture about the nature of human existence. His writing is clever—the jokes operate as a motif and the insight like jokes—the comedy,…

by Evan Karp John Doyle’s reimagination of Bertolt Brecht’s

by Evan Karp David Mamet’s over-the-top new satirical comedy November takes a merciless stab at American politics, the nature of our populace, and, well, the integrity of theater. The rave reviews you’ve no doubt already heard are justified: the laughter is abundant and hearty and endless. The jokes are clever and, at times, laced with…

by Evan Karp When the lights go dim and a cello announces the middle of the dire conflict that begins Phedre, audiences at The American Conservatory Theater will be transported into an unknown time period. But they will feel far from lost. Adapted by A.C.T.’s Artistic Director Carey Perloff as part of Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s…

by Evan Karp “There must be a part of you, deep down, that still longs to splash about in the dangerous sea.” Those are hairy words for a married man to speak to a married woman in 1938, the year in which Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter is set. The play is being staged at The…