By Ken Bullock Special to the Planet Wednesday April 08, 2009 “Oh, you know Harold. All the plays are the same: Menace in a room!” 

John Calder, the pioneering independent publisher, repeated what the best-known of his authors said with affectionate wit about the manuscript which another former Calderbooks writer had sent him for criticism. [...]

Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle Few of us would want to spend a couple of hours hanging out with child molesters. Seeing “Future Me,” a gripping new play from England staged by TheatreFirst at the Berkeley City Club, isn’t going to change most people’s minds about that. But the time spent with Stephen Brown’s disturbed [...]