"There's often a fine line between doing the stupidest thing, and doing the sexiest thing."

This Gypsy was so different that it forced me to think about why it worked where others failed, and why Frank Rich of the New York Times calls Gypsy the “the great American musical."

This experience triggered new insights into the choreography and the blocking. Ensemble characters related in ways that I’d never seen before. Dance scenes could have been drawn out with arrows across the stage as if it were a football play.

“It’s so real.” she kept repeating, an echo taken up by others, as if being real made the violence preferable to other alternatives.

A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff remarks that Elektra “shows us what happens to a human being who cannot forget… Forgetting is, in fact, very healthy. If we lived with all the terrible things that happen to us, we’d never get through the week."

"Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."

While this is so not Wagner (unless of course, you can imagine clapping along to Wagner, or Wagner with a lot of balloons, or Wagner in drag), it goes straight to the heart of the tragedy, in ways that a five and half hour opera never can.

Warning: Triassic Parq at Ray of Light Theatre is like certain psychedelics. You'll end up loving everyone - and yourself - a little bit more.

Aurora Theatre in Berkeley consistently brings us smart, intelligent theatre – and 'Breakfast with Mugabe' is no exception.

It was epic. It was memorable. It was a major comeback.