How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
BAM!’s inaugural season opens with 1961 Tony winner 'How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying' at Marine’s Memorial Theatre
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.
Still Working Magic: Riverdance (Review)
The phenomenal power generated by these dancers executing precisely articulated steps so rapidly that their lower limbs and feet blur is intensified all the more…
Stage Kiss at SF Playhouse: When the ghost light goes out (Review)
You don’t have to be familiar with yelling, “Where’s the duck tape? Where’s the Stage Manager?” or even have pondered how good actors can have…
‘Odysseo’ by Cavalia: Magic on horseback (Review)
The daunting power behind even one of these animals galloping across stage leaves you breathless, even before humans engage them in Roman and western trick…
A monster builder, a master play
A talented cast at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company holds the show together through all its twists and turns.
Original Broadway Cast: ‘IF/THEN’ at the Orpheum, San Francisco (Review)
Superficially, the execution appears unremarkable until it hits that your brain has been stolen by the shape of the entire dance, moving on the stage…
New plays at the Olympians festival hold water
30 new plays by 31 local writers make for imaginative evening of theater.
Philharmonia Baroque and Richard Egarr: Lithe, light, friendly
This material highlights how different the historically informed performances of PBO (and the Academy of Ancient Music) are from anything most of us grew up…
Help Bay Area Children’s Theatre recover from theft
We received an email yesterday that made my heart sink a little. It was from Nina Meehan, executive director of Bay Area Children’s Theatre, asking…
Not Just a Morality Tale: Date Night at Pet Emergency
Rothman's considerable strengths, as a writer and performer, make this show worth taking in.