Review: AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
What did our critic think of AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre?…
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Review: CRUSHING at A.C.T. Strand
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.…
Review: THE COOK at Berkeley Rep
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…
Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Gets a Spectacular New Life at Broadway San Jose
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.…
Review: VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at Masquers Playhouse
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. …
Review: THE WHITE CHIP at Marin Theatre
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…
Review: THE WHITE CHIP at Marin Theatre
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 execut…
Review: RUMORS at Woodminster Summer Musicals
RUMORS at Woodminster Summer Musicals is full of laughs and gaffs, and is a jolly good time. Set in a posh New York townhouse, RUMORS is Neil Simon’s only full length farce. From half truths to utter nonsense and mistaken identities to outright charades, this production will ensnare you in a strea…
Review: PICKLEBALL at Hillbarn Theatre
Pickleball at Hillbarn Theatre, written by Jeff Daniels, takes one of the country’s fastest-growing sports and serves it up as an unabashedly silly comedy filled with eccentric players, romantic entanglements, and plenty of physical humor. …
Review: FALLEN ANGELS at Altarena Playhouse
Altarena Playhouse brings Noël Coward’s FALLEN ANGELS to life with wit and charm. When the sardonic writing of a genius playwright meets the witty interpretation of a theater, it produces a night full of laughs and insights. …
Past Shows
203 total · showing 1–10
In Front of Your Eyes Performance Festival
A festival uplifting new works by women and nonbinary performers, featuring 18 total new works. Joyful Raven, known as the story midwife, contributes to five of the pieces, including a new original work and directing acts like Robyn DeGuzman and Abbey Glover. Performers pressure...
Abbey Glover’s I’m a Businessman, Man
Abbey is on a quest to become the ultimate businessman. She just has to change a few things about herself, but how hard can it be? Now, on the brink of achieving everything she’s dreamed of, the facade she’s spent a decade constructing starts to fracture. Instead of enjoying the...
Elizabeth Du Val’s For When Things Fall Apart
Once, there was a dancer who had to quit. She put all of her eggs in one new basket in a new city across the country- and the eggs broke all at once, leaving her jobless, friendless, and homeless. Now what? A search for identity, home and connection.
International Sex Club Party Girl’s I Didn’t Manifest This
In Spring 2022, a middle-aged San Francisco woman decided to prove she was enough just as she was by doing less to find love. When the universe responded by offering a compelling Tinder match, international travel, and sex clubs, she perceived it as an opportunity to practice...
Janet Thornburg’s Cognitive Divine
The show begins with Janet’s move from Colorado to San Francisco in 1972 and ends with her performance at the final Solo Sundays show at StageWerx Theatre in 2023. Along the way, her sub-personalities bring to life adventures in theatre, a closed-head injury, a right-wing coup...
Pearl Louise’s Lovin Jaleal
When Pearl’s loved one dies, she finds a written letter asking if she would care for their special needs sibling like a mother. A story of fear, courage, and strength, trying to honor that request.
Sara Felder’s Class Act
In Class Act, Sara turns her sharp wit, circus skills and Jewish queer lens to her life as a working-class kid from Brooklyn. She follows the money from her grandmother’s shtetl in Poland to her childhood community in Brighton Beach to the golden streets of San Francisco. Her...
Theresa Donahoe’s All the Great New Things to Come
In 2020, during Shelter in Place, Theresa is stuck inside her studio apartment in Oakland having menopausal hot flashes. While cleaning and purging her clutter one day, she discovers a forgotten family photo album that her father had given her years ago. Not only does it have...
Dan Hoyle’s Takes All Kinds
From the creator of Tings Dey Happen, The Real Americans, and Border People comes Takes All Kinds, a raw, funny, moving new piece of journalistic theater and embodied storytelling. Takes All Kinds channels powerful, funny and complex people caught in the social and political...
Josh Kornbluth’s What Is To Be Done?: Fighting Fascism and Depression
For over 35 years, Josh Kornbluth has developed his monologues through a series of improvisations — often at The Marsh. What’s currently on, and in, his mind are the related subjects of fascism and depression. For over seven months last year, he was mired in a deep depression...
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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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Rock of Ages Woodland Opera House (10/02-10/24) |
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Good Night, Oscar Hillbarn Theatre (3/04-3/28) |
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DRACULA ORINDA STARLIGHT VILLAGE PLAYERS (9/04-9/26) |
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Eureka Day City Lights Theater Company (9/24-10/18) |
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The 2026 GLIDE Holiday Jam: Turn It Up and Turn It Out The Warfield (11/05-11/05) |
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Once Upon A Mattress Saratoga Civic Theater (9/26-10/17) |
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Come From Away Berkeley Playhouse (2/19-3/21) |
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Legally Blonde The Musical Berkeley Playhouse (9/11-10/11) |
