LEGALLY BLONDE explodes onto the stage at Berkeley Playhouse with a joie de vivre that lights up the house. The high energy dancing, powerful vocals and the never ending onslaught of jokes keep the audience smiling. …
What did our critic think of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center? Little Shop of Horrors, whose star is a bloodthirsty flora, plants its roots at the New Conservatory for the opening of its 26-27 season and it’s an energetic, darkly comic, gender bending allegory for all that…
From across the pond, acclaimed director Emma Rice’s latest adaptation North by Northwest makes its West Coast debut, turning Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 suspense film on its ear with her whimsical, comic stylings.…
What did our critic think of THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Center Rep?…
What did our critic think of AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre?…
Stories of romantic love are delivered by a variety of interdisciplinary artists in the second Bay Area incarnation of Crushing, and it’s a winner for the art of spoken word. The featured writers span genders, ages and viewpoints and you never know what’s coming next.…
A love of food sustains houseworker Gladys over a forty-year arc that coincides with the social, economic and political changes wrought by the Cuban revolution of 1959 in Eduardo Machado’s The Cook, opening Berkeley Rep’s 59th season. In Tanya Orellana’s superbly appointed and functional kit…
Review of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Broadway San Jose, where dazzling stagecraft, spectacular choreography and standout performances make the new touring production a theatrical feast.…
VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE is a delightful romp with equal measures of nostalgia and hope for the future. With rapid-fire dialogue and pitch-perfect timing, the cast bring the script by Christopher Durang to life. …
Marin Theatre opens its 60th season with a bang – a sobering dark comedy from director, writer and former California Shakespeare Theatre Associate Artistic Director Sean Daniels. Chronicling the dark ride of self-delusion into alcoholism, Daniels’ semiautobiographical story is beautifully exec…
Enchanted April is based on Elizabeth Von Arnims beloved novel of the 1920s. Against the backdrop of a country still reeling from World War I, the play offers to its characters and viewers a balm of sunshine and renewal.Wistful Lottie Wilton sees an advertisement in the paper to...
Sonoma Arts Lives A TOAST TO THE CLASSICS season closes with MY FAIR LADY, directed by award-winning Michael Ross, on the Rotary Stage in Andrews Hall in the historic Sonoma Community Center, 276 East Napa Street, Sonoma. Show runs July 12, 13,14,18,19,20,21,25,26,27,28. Evening...
Welcome to the dining room of a typical well-to-do household: the place where the family assembles daily for breakfast, dinner, and for any and all special occasions. Six actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill to create a mosaic of interrelated...
Some things never change -- This play is about a small professional theater company in a mid-sized city. The company is striving desperately to survive even as they endure financial cuts. They learn that they will be inspected in order to receive a grant. As more and more things...
Dark times are followed by the light .... Set in a drought-ridden rural town in the West in Depression-era America, this 1954 play tells the story of one pivotal hot summer day in the life of spinster Lizzie Curry. Lizzie keeps house for her father and two brothers on the family...
What if you could start over .... This 2001 musical play tells the story of Percy, just released from prison and ready to start her life anew in a rural town called Gilead, a town she knows of only from a faded postcard. Share Percy’s journey as she struggles to find her place...
Sonoma Arts Live is proud to present the final show in its WOMEN WHO DARE season. Regarded by many theater professionals as the greatest musical ever created, GYPSY is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ success… while secretly yearning for...
Have you ever been tempted to flee your own life? Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage—with no prospects for change on the horizon. Then one night a socially inept and grief-struck millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where...
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Bye Bye Birdie Warren Theater (9/18-10/04) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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MELINA-FEST: 4 New Play Readings Studio B. Wolff (9/25-10/16) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (7/07-7/18) |
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prePLAY New Play Series: The Trial Run by Daniel Martinez Jr. PlayGround PlaySpace (10/18-10/18) |
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Private Lives by Noel Coward Santa Cruz Shakespeare (9/04-10/04) |
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Live At the Orinda - Beth Leavel Orinda Theatre (11/08-11/08) |
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Dream Hou$e City Lights Theater Company (5/13-6/06) |
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Odyssea We Players (10/08-10/18) |
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Once Upon A Mattress Saratoga Civic Theater (9/26-10/17) |
