From the Fringe Festival in San Francisco.

A.C.T.'s season opener is one of the top 5 plays of 2015.

Beth is the take-charge one: your mother – or maybe you – keeping eyelids popped open while trying not to advertise she’s been doing it on autopilot for a mighty long time.

Chris Mann is The Phantom, and Stark Insider has an inside look at the epic Broadway show making its way across the country. Perhaps no Broadway show in history has impacted audiences the world over as dramatically as The Phantom of the Opera. Lavish sets. Gorgeous costumes. That classic Andrew...

Anna may not look or sound anything like the Dowager Lady Grantham, but both are animated by the same indomitable self-respect.

Can you feel the love tonight? For Broadway fans in Silicon Valley, the answer would be a resounding Y-E-S. Ever popular Phantom of the Opera is now playing in San Francisco. And next week, another epic Broadway hit, The Lion King, opens at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts. If you haven't...

Acrobats. Horses. Aerialists. State-of-the-art video screens. And a three-story mountain with... a real lake. Odysseo. That's the name of the new, $30 million mega-show made by the creators of the fantastical show Cavalia we saw here a few years back. It's scheduled to come to San Francisco in November and run...

Above: Mountain View Mayor John Mcallister and Pear Theatre Artistic Director and Founder Diane Tasca prepare to cut the ribbon to the Pear’s new space at an event on Saturday, August 15, 2015. (Photo courtesy Carla Befera & Co.) The blue oxford cloth shirt and brown cap weren’t quite official...

A "fierce global journey." That's how Magic Theatre describes its upcoming season. Featuring plays by Barfield, Hagedorn, Skinner, and Udofia, the 2015-16 season opens this September with the American premiere of Fred's Diner, a black comedy about the reaches of class and sovereignty. Tanya Barfield's love-story, Bright Half Life, is next up. That's followed...

He’s critically attuned to how this steady diet of digital distraction diminishes our ability to form real connections and real community.