Monica Turner

Monica Turner
Contributor to Stark Insider for tech, the arts and All Things West Coast for over 10 years.
Broadway by the Year

Broadway By the Bay announces 2011 season at new home

Each production will play at the 1400-seat Fox Theatre located in the heart of downtown Redwood City.
Empire Drive-In

Stark and Stark at Empire Drive-In

It felt like we were on a large studio set, possibly for a Tarantino film, or a David Lynch shoot for Mulholland Drive.
Marin Theatre Company presents the west coast premiere of award-winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water, Part One of the award-winning The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy.

Marin Theatre Company extends ‘In the Red and Brown Water’

Marin Theatre Company announced that due to exceptional ticket demand, the west coast premiere production of In the Red and Brown Water (review) by Tarell Alvin McCraney will be extended one week. In the Red and Brown Water, Part One of McCraney’s acclaimed The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy and directed by MTC Producing...
Plug-in-Play represents a playground of ideas related to how we engage our urban environments.

Silicon Valley Biennial kicks-off with performances, “drive-in” movie

Hundreds of artworks, performances, events, and artist talks, will not only imagine the future of the world, but begin to build it.
Trading Voices 01SJ

Trading Voices @01SJ

How do you build your own world? Our search for answers--or at least clues--continues.
Guest Star Rebecca Luker

42nd Street Moon presents ‘Once in a Million Moons: A Jerome Kern Salon’

42nd Street Moon announced today they will present ONCE IN A MILLION MOONS: A Jerome Kern Salon on October 28 at the Alcazar Theatre.  This one-night-only event features Broadway star Rebecca Luker, as the company’s multi-year celebration of composer Jerome Kern continues. “We’ve been privileged to bring many rarely seen Kern musicals...
Aurora Theatre - Palomino

Aurora Theatre Company continues 19th season with ‘Palomino’

Aurora Theatre Company continues its 19th season with the Bay Area Premiere of acclaimed writer and actor David Cale’s new solo play Palomino. Written, directed, and starring David Cale, it plays October 29 through December 5 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley. Palomino is a beautifully-realized play written for one actor about the sexual exploits...
Broadway San Jose presents RAIN, a Tribute to Beatles. Photo credit: Joan Marcus.

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles makes its debut in San Jose

Bay Area audiences will have the unique opportunity to experience this multi-media Beatles tribute just as Broadway audiences are getting their first look.
Convergence by Jun Kaneko on Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

San Jose Public Art: ‘Convergence’ by Jun Kaneko

Like 1980s-style easter eggs, they stand boldly among the park benches, lamp posts and walkways.
Bonterra Pinot Noir 2009

Bonterra adds Pinot Noir to its portfolio

The Bonterra Pinot Noir is currently hitting shelves nationwide and will retail for $19.99.