Intiman Theatre runs on a different schedule than other playhouses, which is why they're announcing next season's plays right now. The two that jump out at us are Crime and Punishment (an adaptation by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus) and Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking (based on the only Didion book we didn't love). Sheila Daniels will restage the Dostoevsky--she did it in 2007 at CHAC, where it was a sold-out smash-hit...in an......

Sometimes you watch a play without ever leaving home; either it never leaves the neighborhood of the familiar or you don't. And sometimes a play invites you into its home--certain things are familiar or not, but the center is not your center, and you almost drunkenly try to make sense of it, slipping and willing your eyes to focus. It's not that you forget to tell yourself you know better, that's not a blue sky......