Theater Review: ‘Love in American Times’
Fair warning. The first clue you're possibly in for a big night of drinking, debauchery and partying (and a few gun shots): the instigator will…
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.
A Novel Idea: Copious Dance Theatre
All attention was focused upon Jeffrey Van Sciver, a mesmerizing black dancer with impossibly long arms and legs. Transitioning from sharply articulated moves to movements…
Symphony Silicon Valley: Manasse and Nakamatsu impress
Without missing a stroke he exhausts the crowd with Tchaikovsky’s Allego Con Fuoco and then after the second standing ovation of the night presents an…
‘Curtains’ – Second-Tier offering from Kander and Ebb still entertains
Set as a murder mystery in Boston in the late ‘50s, this musical within a musical is an amusing send up and romp through a…
Silk Stockings – Successful return of a forgotten musical
It’s been twenty years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and despite its undeniable shortcomings, capitalism as an economic model has been widely embraced…
Review: ‘Drowsy Chaperone’ energizes audience
If an overweight, overwrought, middle-aged, whiny nebbish can be an oracle, Lopez has it down as he expounds at length on the action on the…
‘Altar Boyz’ in Palo Alto: Evangelism has never been more fun
The Palo Alto Players’ 80-year tradition of bringing exceptional theatre to the South Bay has never been more entertaining.
San Jose: Religion collides with science in ‘Galileo’s Daughters’
Among Galileo Galilei's more radical notions was heliocentricism, which suggested that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the known universe.
Theater Review: To Hell – but not back – in ‘No Exit’ at A.C.T.
Interestingly I found myself enjoying the backstories to No Exit more than the actual show itself.
Essential Action Productions Debut Performance: ‘Collected Stories’
Carolyn Power can do more with a quivering upper lip and and slightly furrowed brow than anyone I've seen in long time