What’s Happening: San Francisco Symphony announces summer line-up
"Summer with the Symphony" runs July 4-29. Highlights include Pixar in Concert, Ben Folds with the SFS, A Night at the Moulin Rouge with Storm…
Theater and Stage
Reviews and coverage of theater and performing arts in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Berkeley, and beyond. Written by ATCA critic Clinton Stark.
The Toxic Avenger: Freakish, wild, entertaining musical pushes all the right buttons
Andrew Lloyd Weber this is not. And that's largely the point. Think of it more as Joan Crawford... the one later in her career (Strait-Jacket?).
Montalvo Arts Center reveals 2017 summer concert series
Jay Leno, The B-52s, Gregory Porter lead strong summer concert line-up at historic outdoor Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre.
An intimate and incredible Encounter
The first minutes of The Encounter (currently at the Curran) are a mix between technological witchcraft and light hypnosis. After a brief introduction about the…
An icy Phèdre at Cutting Ball Theater
Logical holes undercut the coherence of the plot.
A delightful Gilbert and Sullivan pastiche
When it comes to musical theater, the only thing more fun than a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is thirteen Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. If you…
Broadway musicals ‘Something Rotten’, ‘An American in Paris’ highlight upcoming SHN season
SHN has revealed its upcoming 2017/18 season and it looks like another strong line-up of Broadway musicals. See below for the full schedule and details.…
Lepage makes high-tech magic at the ACT
The production’s deft use of technology gives 'Needles and Opium' a major “wow” factor.
‘New Girl in Town’ a catchy classic
If you asked me to name playwrights whose works were suitable for adaptation into musicals, Eugene O’Neill would be one of the last to come…
‘Eva Trilogy’ World Premiere leads Magic Theatre’s 2017-18 season
Theater news of interest for those in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. Magic Theatre today took the wraps off its 2017-18 season, and…