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Reviews and coverage of theater and performing arts in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Berkeley, and beyond. Written by ATCA critic Clinton Stark.

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Not Just for Folkies: ‘Fire on the Mountain’ breathes electricity

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 04.07.2015
Entering the house, you soak in Joe Ragey’s scenic design upon which the contradictions of the place are writ large. “Harlan County is UMWA County”…
Culture

’30s camp in ‘Nick & Nora’ at 42nd Street Moon (Review)

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 04.06.2015
That slightly heightened unreality of 1930’s camp is such a great leveler that nobody emerges enough to really capture your interest.
Culture

Man, Oh, Man: ‘Sister Play’ at Magic (Review)

BY CLINTON STARK — 04.02.2015
A stranger ignites 'Sister Play' in playwright John Kolvenbach's premiere at Magic Theatre.
Culture

Theater News: San Francisco Playhouse announces season

BY MONICA TURNER — 04.01.2015
San Francisco Playhouse 2015-16 season line-up: Dogfight, Stage Kiss, Colossal, Red Velvet, City of Angels. A sixth play is TBA. Read all the details here…
Culture

Don’t shoot that bird! (Review)

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 03.23.2015
While our negativity threshold saves us, sometimes we need to get psychically beaten to get a bit of truth in now and then. Stupid Fucking…
Culture

Berkeley Rep’s ‘Tartuffe’ smart fun with no morning-after regrets (Review)

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 03.23.2015
If you’ve been petutzed by the DC clowns, so devoid of the Christian virtues they claim to profess, Tartuffe will have a salutary effect on…
Culture

TheatreWorks ‘The Lake Effect’: More Rajiv Joseph magic (Review)

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 03.10.2015
Like North Pool and Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo, the characters of Lake Effect take a heightened form of the imperfect journey we all…
Culture

Antigone at the Cutting Ball (Review)

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 03.09.2015
Loper is the sort of actor who’s totally in the moment, absorbing what other cast members put out there and responding to it.
Culture

Feisty Old Jew: Charlie Varon at the Berkeley Marsh (Review)

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 03.03.2015
Varon’s gift is that he wraps it up in a bow and delivers it to you. That he puts a San Francisco patina on the…
Culture

A Post-electric Play: ‘Mr. Burns’ at A.C.T. (Review)

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 02.27.2015
Dystopic though it may be, there’s forward energy here, if only out of the struggle for more lines, and the rights to those lines.

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