From the high camp of Nancyboy (topped with a fascinator and moving gracefully in towering platforms) riffing off Joel Grey to an exquisitely nuanced “Send in the Clowns,” the artistic caliber of these two hundred and fifty hunky sweaty guys left nothing on the table.

If you balked at J.M. Barrie’s 1902 novel as a child, perhaps because families named Darling, dogs named Nana, and astral beings like Tinkerbell were a walk into the weird, this show is for you.

Quite charming actually. That was my first thought as I streamed, on auto-pilot, alongside a large, enthusiastic crowd into the warm air of downtown San Jose after the opening night of The Book of Mormon. But this show is supposed to be daring, raunchy, and shocking. It's all of those things, alright, but...

Peter Callender travels the biggest distance as Robert, moving between living and dead, from compulsively filling notebooks with meaningless drivel to one who arrives from the hereafter, moving with a generous slowness and clarity that reads as wisdom, in a way that only Callender can.

The underlying tension plays against the duration of the play even more than it plays between characters. We wait for coherency like we wait for Godot.

Kimberly Bryant, who founded Black Girls Code (BGC) in 2011, has a vision – to increase the number of women of color in the digital world by empowering girls of color to become innovators in STEM fields through exposure to computer science and technology. To that end the nonprofit...

Multi-part epics are always intimidating. They’re a big commitment to make in advance, and there’s a sense of failure if you don’t see them through. No one wants to be the quitter who only saw Voyage (in Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia) or Das Rheingold (in Wagner’s Ring cycle)....

Still haven't seen the smash Broadway hit Hamilton? Good news for those in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. BroadwaySF has announced the historical musical based on Founding Father Alexander Hamilton has been extended through May 31, 2020. As you may already know this is a hot ticket. So be prepared...

Another milestone theater achievement has been unlocked here in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Jose-based City Lights Theater Company (non-profit, 1982, 100 seats) has announced their 40th season. The full six-show schedule can be seen below in detail, and features two shows previously planned (2020-2021) prior to COVID-19, in...

Fred Pitts’ lauded solo work Aren’t You…? will be opening in Berkeley next month. Details below. The San Francisco Bay Area actor "recounts his hilarious journey to visit all 21 California Mission churches, where he discovers that being black makes him an instant celebrity – the question is which one?" Look for the...