The Re-birth of BottleRock – No Doubt about it this time (Review)
It was epic. It was memorable. It was a major comeback.
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.
Nailed It: ‘A Little Night Music’ at A.C.T. (Review)
This is the one you want to see.
Laughs. It Hurts. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at
Berkeley Rep
This wasn’t supposed to happen. You know that sinking feeling you get? The curtain drops, and all of a sudden there’s maybe a dozen actors…
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San Francisco Playhouse (review)
Russell delivers a performance that’ll give you shivers of recognition. You know this long-winded, self-serving, alpha male wanna-be who sucks the air out of the…
Smuin Ballet goes full cycle with ‘Unlaced’
The whole thing happens so organically, so subtly, that it seems to originate somewhere beyond the choreographer’s active imagination.
Come to the DMV, old friend… with Don Reed
Actor Don Reed presents nine characters – beginning with Alberta – the first roadblock at the “appointments or no appointments” desk.
Dreaming Irish at Broadway San Jose: ‘Once’ (Review)
This is a spinet on stage, not a baby grand, and what de Waal does with it can make you rethink the possibilities of music.
Rising Water, Rising Fast: Head of Passes
A different way to wrap your mind around Head of Passes is to think of it as a variant of Joan Didion’s The Year of…
Tenderly Taut: ‘Death of a Salesman’ at SJ Stage
King's physical persona - particularly the glasses, head shape and hair - reminded me of Joseph P. Kennedy, gone to seed – which isn’t a…
A Great Stage of Fools: ‘King Lear’ at Independent Eye (Review)
Bishop and Fuller worked together, handing puppets back and forth with the deftness of surgical assistant passing a scalpel.