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Reviews and coverage of theater and performing arts in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Berkeley, and beyond. Written by ATCA critic Clinton Stark.

Tuck & Patti - San Francisco Jazz Festival Review
Culture

36th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival in Full Swing: Tuck & Patti (Review)

BY JEANNE POWELL — 06.16.2018
The repertoire of Tuck and Patti deftly illustrates the purpose of this venue — bring people together across the Americas to celebrate music, love and…
Culture

Inside The Ring: Backstage at San Francisco Opera’s production of ‘Ring of the Nibelung’ (Video)

BY MONICA TURNER — 06.15.2018
Power. Love. Destruction.
San Francisco Theater Review: ME AND MY GIRL at 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco
Theater and Stage

Tap and Tomfoolery: Me and My Girl

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 05.11.2018
It’s funny how two people can discover the same thing at once. Calculus. Oxygen. A neglected musical. Me and My Girl, hardly a household name…
The Color Purple - SHN Orpheum Theatre review by Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Theater and Stage

Star power makes The Color Purple bright

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 05.06.2018
The women of The Color Purple have unimaginably hard lives. They’re subject to an unrelenting series of rape, abuse, and racism. The musical (currently on…
Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 at American Conservatory Theater, San Francsisco
Theater and Stage

Searching for freedom with Father Comes Home from the Wars

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 05.03.2018
Midway through Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3, at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater in San Francisco), a Confederate colonel sets his…
Theater Review: Timon of Athens at Cutting Ball, San Francisco
Theater and Stage

Shakespeare’s obscure ‘Timon’ sears at Cutting Ball

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 04.06.2018
Shakespeare completionists surely took note when Cutting Ball Theater announced Timon of Athens as part of their 2017–18 season. It’s a difficult one to check…
'Swept Away' extended at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Company
Culture

Berkeley Rep Announces 2018-19 Season: Doll’s House Pt. 2, Fairview, Home, Good Book, more

BY MONICA TURNER — 03.28.2018
Iconic theater celebrates 50th anniversary with 6 shows under Tonny Taccone's last year of artistic directorship.
The Effect at San Francisco Playhouse
Theater and Stage

The Effect‘s side effects: laughter and angst

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 03.26.2018
How can we trust in love if it’s reducible to brain chemistry?
Vietgone Review - ACT Strand San Francisco
Theater and Stage

Romance, rap and a road trip for refugees of ‘Vietgone’

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 03.12.2018
Ilana Walder-Biesanz reviews Vietgone, American Conservatory Theater’s (A.C.T.) latest production, now playing at The Strand in San Francisco. Humor is not what you’d expect from…
Theater Review: WIDOWERS' HOUSES at Aurora, Berkeley
Theater and Stage

A nineteenth-century housing crisis at Aurora Theatre

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 02.09.2018
Widowers’ Houses is, by Shaw’s own categorization, a “play unpleasant.” No one on the stage is remotely likeable. Certainly not Blanche (Megan Trout), the spoiled…

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