Rattling Chains: A Christmas Carol opens in San Jose
Part of the reason it plays so strongly to our sense of nostalgia for a life never experienced is that Dickens was writing to revive…
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San Francisco: Klea Blackhurst and Jason Graae to star in 42nd Street Moons ‘The Best of Times’
42nd Street Moon has lined up two major guest stars, Klea Blackhurst and Jason Graae, to head the cast for the upcoming 80th Birthday salute…
Bay Area Stages: Christmas Edition (plays you don’t want to miss!)
A round-up of some of the top holiday productions across the San Francisco Bay Area including A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, TheatreWorks, Magic Theatre,…
Berkeley: Aurora Theatre Company announces new works winners
GAP winners announced include: The Hummingbirds by Garret Jon Groenveld; In a Word by Lauren Yee; Rasheeda Speaking by Joel Drake Johnson; and Ashes, Ashes…
Ives Quartet Salon: Mozart, Haydn and the 1780s
These salons offer the listener an ear up, as it were, on performances that might otherwise sound excellent, but take on a transcendental quality in…
Broadway by the Year wins converts
Christina Bianco’s channeling of everyone from Streisand to Judy Garland, Patti Lupone, Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, and Celine Dion to perform “Caberet” was spot on…
San Francisco: Carey Perloff’s ‘Higher” receives prestigious award
Next February’s world premiere production wins the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Theatre Visions Fund Award.
Order, balance, transformation and beauty: PBO does Italy
If your point of reference to recorder music is the more staid Renaissance music, Verbruggen’s performance will stand such notions on their head. She propelled…
Review: ‘Period of Adjustment’ – Extraordinary cast brings Tennessee Williams to life
Despite being a more overt comedy, Williams doesn’t shy away from his serious recurring motifs of familiar dysfunction, homosexuality and sexual repression.
Theater Review: ‘The Soldier’s Tale’ at Aurora, Berkeley
L. Peter Callender has such compelling physical presence that he could probably make folding the laundry mesmerizing. With a quality of motion comparable to Ben…