It’s Friendship! Comedian Bruce Vilanch talks Tina Fey, “being sick of me”, Broadway revival (Video)
Bruce Vilanch is in town for the revival of 'Du Barry Was a Lady' at 42nd Street Moon. Loni Stark catches up with the famed…
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Back in the USSR with ‘The Letters’
Her superior, an apparatchik known only as “Director” enters, vaguely handsome in a Donald Trump dunderhead kind of way.
A South African Journey: ‘The Suit’
Philemon is so opaque, so self-controlled, that you know as much about him at the end of the play as you did in the beginning.…
San Francisco Weekend: Wrong’s What I Do Best, The Suit, Du Barry Was a Lady, SFIFF, Off the Grid
Some of our favorite things to do in San Francisco this weekend including SFIFF premiere LAST WEEKEND, Off the Grid food truck nirvana at Fort…
Wrong’s What I Do Best (Video)
"These sincerely deluded, tragicomic figures inhabited characters of their own making, to personal peril and kindling for public legend."
Stark Insider TV: Greg Proops of ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ on show business, talk show hosts, losing luggage (Video)
Bay Area native Greg Proops weighs in on a far ranging list of topics: late night talk shows, wealth in America and the "Oligarchy", deciding…
Opera Parallele Revives Dystopian Worlds
If there’s another soprano capable of performing a double mastectomy while singing, please rise.
The Living Legacy of American Bach Soloists
The American Bach Soloists and Jeffrey Thomas are the bomb. Hosting voices so lithe and spirited, the First Congregational Church in Berkeley could have levitated…
The Mystery Box and The Heart String – Storytelling Clues
Filmmakers Andrew Stanton and JJ Abrams make us care and wonder.
Review: Not a Genuine Black Man at Berkeley Rep
Copeland's performance suggests that most of us are more genuinely confused than genuinely racist, and that self-hatred can be insidiously contagious.