Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY at Palo Alto Players
What happens when everyone's favorite delightfully dysfunctional family finds itself navigating love, relationships, and the unfamiliar concept of being normal?…
What happens when everyone's favorite delightfully dysfunctional family finds itself navigating love, relationships, and the unfamiliar concept of being normal?…
It’s a season for women’s stories in the Bay Area. We have the comic fairy tale feminist Once Upon a One More Time at Ray of Light and Harold Pinters’ deceit-filled Betrayal at Marin Theatre. Now we get the heavy hitter in Bess Wohl’s Tony and Pulitzer winning Liberation which opened at Berk…
In the first scene of Harold Pinter’s award-winning play, it’s 1977 and Emma and Jerry are peppering each other with perfunctory ‘how ya doing’ questions over drinks at a pub. It’s awkward and testy, with some kind of subtext lurking beneath the surface. They’re meeting two years after t…
ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME: THE BRITNEY SPEARS FAIRY TALE MUSICAL by Ray of Light Theatre at the Barbary Stage brings down the house on opening night with a electric dancing and high octane vocals.…
THE LION IN WINTER roars onto the stage at Altarena Playhouse. Political intrigue, succession battles, and holiday festivities are all wrapped up in a soap opera of family squabbles and topped off with a love triangle.…
A child requests her favorite fairy tale, and The Narrator puts out a call for the players to assemble on set to re-enact the story verbatim, as it’s been told since inception, no changes.…
What did our critic think of A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD at New Conservatory Theatre Center?…
What happens when one of America's most recognizable First Ladies becomes a foul-mouthed, cabaret-obsessed, and completely unhinged theatrical sensation?…
A weary Donte Coleman sits in his Western Addition family home that he’s just listed for sale. In this well constructed memory play, scenes from his childhood burst to life in SFBATCO’s homage to the golden age of 1950’s San Francisco’s Fillmore district. Local legend Daryl V. Jones is the e…
What did our critic think of DRACULA at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley?…

The teenage kings and queens of the prom, the homecoming and the keg party the golden boys and girls who taunt and belittle the smart and sensitive have become first-choice villains in contemporary pop culture. Theyre the winners we love to hate, and one of the last minority...
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