The latest reviews and critic recommendations from San Francisco / Bay Area.
BWW Review: THIS SIDE OF CRAZY at New Conservatory Theatre Center is Del Shores dramatic confrontation of a narcissistic mother and her three daughters.
BWW Review: SOVEREIGNTY at Marin Theatre Company is a powerful, fact-based story of the historical and present day plight of the Cherokee Nation.
I was super excited to learn that SF Playhouse was kicking off its 19-20 season with Clare Barron's a?oeDance Nationa?? based on what I'd read and heard about its 2018 world premiere at New York's Playwrights Horizons.
Gilbert and Sullivan are brought into the jazz age in this charming, if uneven, production of Hot Mikado by 42nd Street Moon at the Gateway Theatre.
With exceptional direction, a brilliant and moving cast, and a script that is painfully relevant, this Top Girls is top-notch.
BWW Review: BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON at Custom Made Theatre Company takes an anarchic rock approach to the genocidal, land-grabbing President.
South Bay stages a sinister saga of singing and suspense.
BWW Review: FREE FOR ALL - A NEW 'MISS JULIE' FOR A NEW WORLD at Cutting Ball Theater is a sensational modern spin on Strinberg's 'Miss Julie' .
BWW Review: THE GREAT WAVE at Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a riveting true-life geopolitical thriller involving abduction, brainwashing and spies.
Sunnyvale Community Players take on a Monster of a show with 'Jekyll & Hyde The Musical'.
There is just something so damned exciting about Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's 'Caroline, or Change'! It is rare indeed to experience a work of art this ambitious, morally complex, entertaining, honest, and just plain downright human.
The persistent legend, mystique and fascination of what may have happened to Anastasia during Russia's revolution finds a new home in the musical ANASTASIA
BWW Review: THE FLICK at Shotgun Players is Annie Bakers' astute observations of three lonely, dysfunctional theater attendants.
BWW Review: BETTE DAVIS AIN'T FOR SISSIES at 3Below Theater is a compelling portrait of the great stage and film legend and early feminist.
BWW Review: THE 39 STEPS at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a brilliantly directed and acted rollicking spoof of Hitchcock's noir spy thriller The 39 Steps.
Marin Shakespeare's SPAMALOT is an altogether delightful and uproariously zany production that has their audiences laughing almost non-stop throughout the show.
Playing now through September 8, Broadway San Jose's Wicked is a dazzling, deeply satisfying bucket list musical for Broadway aficionados of every age.
BWW Review: BETTE DAVIS AIN'T FOR SISSIES at 3Below Theaters & Lounge is an up close and personal conversation with Bette Davis.
Christina Gorman's a?oeRoan @ The Gatesa?? currently in its world premiere production by Central Works at the Berkeley City Club could not be timelier.
Is the state of the world making you more than a little crazy these days? The president's latest racist rants gotcha down? Well, Bay Area Musicals' production of "Hairspray" just might be the perfect remedy to lift you out of your despair and make you believe in our collective power to triumph over
BWW Review: THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE at Lucie Stern Theatre is a stunning production of Julia Cho's award-winning, quirky tale of love and miscommunications.
BWW Review: CAVEMAN PLAY at Z Below explores the moment when we decided to switch from huntergatherers to agrarians with all its future complications for society.
Bay Area Musical's production of HAIRSPRAY rocks the house early 1960s style, with lacquered bouffants and non-stop music, dancing and comedy – all wrapped up in a story about spunky, plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad of Baltimore and her dream to be a dancer on the local TV dance program, “The Cor
One of Shakespeare's least performed works, Measure for Measure, is also one of his best.
BWW Review: Disney's NEWSIES Shines Now Through July 13 at Woodminster Summer Musicals
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ELTON DOM: The Young Elton Experience Great Star Theater (9/10-9/13) |
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Julius Caesar Marin Shakespeare Company (8/14-9/13) |
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Pickleball Hillbarn Theatre (8/20-9/13) |
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The Fantasticks San Anselmo Playhouse (9/04-9/07) |
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Hello, Dolly! Hillbarn Theatre (4/15-5/09) |
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Private Lives by Noel Coward Santa Cruz Shakespeare (9/04-10/04) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (7/07-7/18) |
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Come From Away Berkeley Playhouse (2/19-3/21) |
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Hannah Gould’s Divorced: The Musical! The Marsh Berkeley (8/27-8/29) |
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POTUS Live Oak Theater (9/11-9/26) |
