Wirehead - SF Playhouse

Wirehead: Viagra for the Mind

A “wirehead” is a human with an intracranially implanted “z drive.”
Cutting Ball - Lay Grey

Cutting Ball San Francisco: Experimental theatre at its best

Quirkly and self-referential, O’Hare can do more with her cheekbones than many actresses can do with the entire body.
Fiddler on the Roof

Theater Review: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Broadway San Jose

It is a testament to the universality of the family of man that this endearing story, steeped in Jewish traditions from the shetls of Eastern Europe, is so meaningful to audiences everywhere.
Shane Fahy and Conor Hamill in THE DUMB WAITER

Theater Review: ‘Sex and Death: A night with Harold Pinter’

Pinter’s examination of the games that people play suggests that one’s emotions are not so easily compartmentalized.
Aurora Theatre Company - Berkeley

Berkeley: Aurora Theatre Company announces 20th anniversary season

"“We look upon this juncture in our history as an opportunity for so many of us who have been a part of Aurora from its humble beginnings at the Berkeley City Club, to the opening and recent expansion of our own theater space on Addison Street, to look back and reflect,”" said Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross.
Khadim (Adam Poss) in THE NORTH POOL, a world premiere by Rajiv Joseph. Presented by TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley.

Review: ‘The North Pool’ strikes home in Palo Alto

The 2009 suicides of Gunn High School students are still very close to us here, not the least because the number of deaths was far greater than local newspapers indicated.
Womanizer Mr Malcomb (left to right - Rich Dymer) has a good time with Mrs. Shankland (Nicole Martin) while his girlfriend Miss Cooper (Ruth Sieber) looks on in Hillbarn Theatre's Separate Tables.

Separate Tables opens at the Hillbarn

Hillbarn Director Hunt Burdick stood this piece on its head by heightening the action so that it plays as over-the-top British humor instead of high drama.
The family portrait (from left: Kenneth Welsh as Sam, A.C.T. core acting company member Anthony Fusco as Teddy, A.C.T. core acting company member Jack Willis as Max, Adam O’Byrne as Joey, A.C.T. core acting company member René Augesen as Ruth, and Andrew Polk as Lenny). Photo by Kevin Berne.

Theater Review: ‘The Homecoming’ absurdly entertaining

René Augesen embodies the sly, sexually-charged Ruth with such unnerving nymph-like appeal, it's easy to see why the role is one of her personal favorites.
Kurt Masur

San Francisco Symphony Review: Kurt Masur conducts Mendelssohn

The primacy of live performance is nowhere more evident than the role played by the six basses that drive the Italian Symphony forward.
Rival factions take no prisoners in the Russian Mafia-themed Romeo and Juliet at Impact Theatre

In Berkeley: Pizza, beer and ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Did I mention we were sitting underneath a fully operating pizza joint? Consider those occasional bumps, screeches of a chair being dragged and knocks from the pipes to be bonus effects. This is theater that puts hair on your chest.