by Steve Murray - April 02, 2026
For Starra Jones, a baller from rural Plainnole, Arkansas, fulfilling her mother’s dream of basketball glory is her prime motivation. Playing a style of ‘dirty’ ball, her braggadocio will lead her to a foul play in Candrice Jones’ Flex, making its West Coast premiere at SF Playhouse....
by Linda Hodges - April 01, 2026
It's easy to see why Beetlejuice, the screen-to-stage adaptation of Tim Burton's beloved 1998 cult-classic film, earned eight 2019 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. It is to die for. ...
by Steve Murray - March 30, 2026
There are many types of great theatre- light, cheerful, romantic, uplifting, silly, classic. Z Spaces’ co-production of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class is unflinchingly dark, emotionally devastating and a tough watch – but it is great theatre, a timely cautionary tale of evil startingly conce...
by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026
I admit I’ve never seen Stephen Sondhiem’s Assassins, nor ever heard the score or read the synopsis. A flop in 1990, the 2004 revival won five Tony awards, and it’s been in theatre rotations since, often causing controversy for its raw language and unsavory content. A play from the perspective...
by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026
The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the world's first openly gay chorus, continues it’s forty-eighth season with a concert both cheerful and deeply emotional celebrating the music and events of the 1980’s. For the LGBT community, the 80’s was the apocalypse incarnate - a community devastate...
by Jim Munson - March 22, 2026
What did our critic think of DON QUIXOTE at San Francisco Ballet?...
by Steve Murray - March 21, 2026
What did our critic think of AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH LUCIE ARNAZ at Feinstein's At The Nikko?...
by Steve Murray - March 19, 2026
There is plenty of interesting ideas in Eisa Davis’ into the lives of four women, students in a summer music program. The need for arts education drives these girls, partly for parity in a male dominated world of music and secondly as a respite from the dramas of their individual lives....
by Steve Murray - March 15, 2026
What did our critic think of GODS & MONSTERS at New Conservatory Theatre Center?...
by Steve Murray - March 14, 2026
What did our critic think of SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at Hillbarn Theatre?...
Past Shows
The Sonoma County premiere, based on the beloved holiday movie.Based on the beloved holiday film, this hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy follows Buddy the Elf in his...
Written by Sarah RuhlDirected by Sandra IshThe Sonoma County premiere of award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl's subversive enchantment.At a dinner party in New Jersey, two couples...
The World Premiere of an avant-garde performance art obituary for the year 2020 with music and dance.This is an obituary, year 2020. This obituary is...
THE STORY: A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic...
A gritty, rich, thick, poetic and entirely gripping noir tale of two Chicago police officers. THE STORY: Joey and Denny have been best friends since...
THE STORY: Four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing classes with Leonard, an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction,...
Is it strength of character or just a few lucky breaks that determines a person's fate? THE STORY: Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where...
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