A new solo show about love, loss, and the search for something handmade in an algorithmic age, written and performed by Alicia Dattner. Poking fun at the gourmands and the gauche alike, Dattner composts a season of stories into a self-deprecating comedy that turns the mundane...
An immersive theater experience celebrating the bond between people and their pets, featuring 14 plays and poems selected through a nationwide competition. Directed by Pamela Hollings, audiences choose their own adventure through stories of laughter, devotion, joy, and grief...
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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. …
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What if the story you were given about your life… wasn’t yours? In this raw, darkly funny, and deeply human 60-minute solo performance, Dev invites audiences to their own funeral — a ritual decades in the making. Raised in a charismatic Christian home where salvation, gender...
A very dark musical comedy. When Patience (Sherry Glaser) Wilson has a stroke she must face her mortality and the complications therein, she must make life and death choices. Funny how life changes when Death (Danny Kitchen) comes knocking.
Night Driver is a solo autobiographical performance written and performed by Pearl Ong and directed by David Ford. The show follows the unexpected journeys of a model minority gone rogue, exploring what a Hong Kong princess is doing behind the wheel of a cab and how her very...
What’s a Hong Kong princess doing behind the wheel of a San Francisco cab? And how does her very proper mother react? Night Driver takes audiences on the unexpected journeys of a model minority gone rogue. This captivating story vividly revisits the vibrant, free-spirited gay...
The Bumpy Road Less Traveled begins at AJ's first day of kindergarten, sharing what life in beautiful Hermosa Beach, Southern California, looks and sounds like through his young eyes—sharing the intimate dreams of his family's progressive hopes. A horrific tragedy strikes...
Fierce, funny, and unflinchingly personal, Little BIG Mouth follows one actress’s fight to stay visible in a world telling her to play small. Sparked by times with her fearless six-year-old granddaughter, who is growing up; and her only mentor, Georgia O'Keeffe; she reckons with...
In What Just Happened, Nina Wise in her signature style builds an improvised performance from the personal and political events which have transpired over the previous 24 hours. Nina originally performed this piece at The Marsh in San Francisco in 2009 and The Marsh Berkeley in...
What Just Happened? is an improvisational solo performance series by Nina Wise in which she recaps her previous 24 hours, filtered through her humor and improv prowess. As the developer of Motion Theater, Wise's signature style of movement-infused storytelling emphasizes the use...
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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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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Based on a Totally True Story City Lights Theater Company (1/21-2/14) |
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Eureka Day City Lights Theater Company (9/24-10/18) |
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Steel Magnolias Town Hall Theatre (9/10-10/03) |
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Dream Hou$e City Lights Theater Company (5/13-6/06) |
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Disney's Frozen Berkeley Playhouse (11/13-12/23) |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity) Orpheum Theatre San Francisco (1/07-1/10) |
