by Steve Murray - March 09, 2026
TheatreWorks and director Jeffrey Lo must have been licking their chops with the chance to produce the regional premiere of Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer Prize winning Primary Trust. In Lo’s skillful hands, and with a seasoned powerful cast, Primary Trust is a winner – both deeply emotional and full ...
by Steve Murray - March 06, 2026
For every lover of Ibsen, Arthur Miller and Stephen Sondheim, there’s a lover of The Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello and of course, Monty Python. Back in the 1970’s Monty Python’s Flying circus was a sensation with their irreverent and risqué observational comedy. If you couldn’t recite th...
by Steve Murray - March 02, 2026
There’s a giant dynamo inside the petite frame of Marilyn Maye that propels her constantly forward, now approaching her 98th birthday, and eighth decade of performances. She’s a national treasure and receives adulation befitting her status wherever she performs....
by Steve Murray - March 02, 2026
The late AIDS activist Larry Kramer meets Pete Buttigieg in John Fisher’s wild political fantasia Left Field, now occupying the full stage at Theatre Rhino. Written and directed by Fisher, Left Field follows an angry radical f****t who rises from mayor to supervisor, to VP candidate, to potential ...
by Steve Murray - February 26, 2026
Arthur Miller needed after his disastrous Broadway debut with the four-performance The Man Who Had All the Luck, and an article in an Ohio newspaper would provide the basis for All My Sons which would on to win two Tony awards for Best Author and Direction of a Play....
by Steve Murray - February 25, 2026
The Paranormal Activity franchise (seven films from 2007 -21), while critically panned, proved people love to be scared, then laugh at their foolishness. Now a theatre piece, the crowd anticipated the expected thrills of supernatural goings on in a live experience....
by Steve Murray - February 14, 2026
What did our critic think of THE NOTEBOOK at Orpheum Theatre?...
by Steve Murray - February 12, 2026
What did our critic think of M. BUTTERFLY at SF Playhouse?...
by Kelly Rogers Flynt - February 11, 2026
IMPROBABLE FICTION at Masquers Playhouse is a tale of two parts. Don’t let the easy-going first half lull you into complacency. When the action hits, it comes in quick succession with quippy lines, funny costumes, over the top dramatics, and plenty of belly laughs....
by Steve Murray - February 04, 2026
Change is hard, we all know that. We get stuck in patterns and the comfortable, even if that inertia is destructive. Watching Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard, brilliantly directed by American Conservatory Theatre Artistic Director emerita Carey Perloff and starring an all-star cast of local legends, will...
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This dramatic comedy by Phaedra Tillery-Boughton reveals the hard work behind ‘black girl magic' as it follows three best friends in their 40s, through life-changing...
In Cathy Midori Stonie's play In The Shadow of Mt. Fuji, Isamu is an embittered and lonely middle-aged man with no future. His overbearing mother's...
Folk tales say that everyone has a soul mate. Some tales go on to state that you meet your soul mate again in the afterlife....
In Elizabeth Flanagan’s horror play, There’s Something Wrong in There, Lane is searching for her half-brother, Ash who has gone missing, or so everyone says. Lane...
A suicidal Aphrodite encounters a life-loving Narcissus eager to escape his stony fate. A nymph regrets her greatest wish. A young girl tries to escape...
THE FALL is a vital and frank collaborative piece of workshop theatre devised by the original cast. When the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was...
Things don’t get easier with age, especially when you’re bisexual and it comes to love, marriage and monsters from your past. How do you let...
Two years into the global COVID-19 pandemic, four individuals have navigated loneliness, intimacy and romance all while trying to stay healthy and “emotionally stable”, whatever...
The Ball Biddies are ready to play ball and break hearts. This boisterous group of older gay women play a mean game of softball as...
This dramatic comedy reveals the hard work behind ‘black girl magic', as it follows three best friends in their 40s, through life -changing obstacles that...
La Mamá Chingona is a play centering Marcia, a Chicana in pursuit of motherhood. Marcia explores her touchstone memories and how she's landed in her...
In Touched, by Susan Jane Harrison, the year is 2054. In a crowded City with a conversely dwindling birth rate, physical contact is now taboo.Pharmaceutical scientist...
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