Crossing borders: American Dream
Any writer will love this character, whose identity and hopes for the future are embedded in verb tenses and for whom the transitive is blasphemous.
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.
One of a kind: The Goat Rodeo Sessions
I wish Goat Rodeo was around in 1999, because something this huge was needed to say goodbye to the old millennium, while looking forward to…
Other Desert Cities
Just when I thought the play was going nowhere fast comes the crisp, beautifully constructed second act. To use an oft-overused expression, there are, indeed,…
Bay Area Stage: Priscilla, Goat Rodeo Sessions, Desert Cities, American Dream
What's happening around the San Francisco Bay Area including performances at SF Symphony, TheatreWorks, Aurora Theatre, SHN Orpheum, Cal Performances, Dragon Theatre.
Happy Days, Happy Days: Beckett at Stanford
Walsh’s Winnie is so darn likeable that we don’t feel as if we're trapped in a bad lit class about post-modernism. Silence may be pouring…
Sam Shepard’s ‘Buried Child’ returns home to Magic Theatre
Buried Child won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright.
Review: ‘No Man’s Land’ with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen
Yes, but what does it all mean?
Damn Yankees
I’m hard pressed to think of any contemporary equivalent to these big, all male dance numbers; everything else seems too precious, too ironic, or too…
The Most Congenial Spot: ‘Camelot’ at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse version of 'Camelot', with its knife's edge violence at the surface, comes closer to the feel of this period – further illustrating…
He’s the Man: Don Reed and East 14th
Can you dig it? Don Reed's a gem of a storyteller, spinning tales of growing up in Oakland with dance moves that best anyone on…