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Bay Area arts journalist. You can find me elsewhere under the same handle.
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Sam Hurwitt is a freelance arts journalist who writes regularly about theater for Theatre Bay Area and the Marin Independent Journal and has written for American Theatre, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Kichen Sink, Variety, East Bay Express, Austin Chronicle, Pacific Sun, Budapest Sun and other publications. His fiction has been published in Fourteen Hills, The Misfit Library, Defunkt and the Doubleday anthology Voices of the Xiled.

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A Black man confronts his Blackness in 'Blue Door' in Berkeley

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By Sam Hurwitt, Tanya Barfield
| The Mercury News Verified
Over one fitful night a man is visited by three ghosts that terrorize him into reexamining his life and his entire way of thinking. But this isn’t Ebenezer Scrooge being taught the meaning of Christmas. It’s Lewis, an erudite professor of the philosophy of mathematics, being prodded by three generations of his own family to come to terms with being a Black man in America.
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Explore the star-studded trajectory of Bay Area singers on their path to Broadway

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By Sam Hurwitt
| Marin Independent Journal Verified
The Bay Area is one of the great theater hubs of the nation, a breeding ground for new work and for the stars of tomorrow, so it’s no surprise that the road to Broadway for countless performers starts in the Bay.
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Bay Area actors assemble in mass benefit reading

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By Sam Hurwitt
| Marin Independent Journal Verified
COVID-19 has been rough on the Bay Area theater scene, as companies have struggled to rebuild their audiences and some have gone under. One positive thing that grew out of the pandemic is the Actors’ Reading Collective. It started during the shutdown as a way for out-of-work actors to get together and read plays aloud. These online gatherings soon spawned a series of public Zoom readings, and then some in-person readings last summer at the Marin Shakespeare Company’s new indoor theater.
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