Stage: ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ a horrifically good time (Review)
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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.
‘Wicked’ defies gravity in San Jose (Review)
'Wicked' leaves you leaving the theater with a spring in your step and a slightly bigger heart, which is a taller order than all the…
Water by the Spoonful (Review)
Zilah Mendoza’s nuanced performance of Odessa stands alone; so many threads of so many people run through this character and Mendoza does justice to them…
San Francisco: ‘Buyer & Cellar’ a delicious romp (Review)
These old timey shoppes are taken straight out of Streisand’s 2010 book "My Passion for Design", which one imagines the diva dictating and photographing while…
Cops and Robbers: Violence and moral culpability in Oakland (Review)
Seventeen different voices, each with a different perspective, sketch out unexpected boundaries of moral culpability in Oakland.
War of the Worlds revisited
Only afterwards does it dawn on you that your mind was transported from one place to another along such a smooth continuum that you arrived…
Theater Review: Hershey Felder as ‘Monsieur Chopin’ at Berkeley Rep
“Chopin is the angel of all pianists,” says Felder, “he really was able to take piano to new heights that hadn’t been seen before him.…
Mighty Mojos tripping through history, powdered wigs and all
The Naked Empire Buffoon Company (Sabrina Wensky and Cara McClendon) could give John Belushi’s killer bees a run for their money. These two combine the…
Not Just a Fish Story: Moby Dick – Rehearsed (Review)
Broadly, energy on stage fits one of three patterns: the fierce, isolated intensity of Ahab, the compliant, but detached skepticism of Starbuck, and the intentionally…
Hardly Child’s Play: ‘The Great Pretender’ at TheatreWorks (Review)
This script is so strong, in part, because the playwright avoids the prescriptive; instead, he provides four rich characters with whom you genuinely want to…