David Cale portrays one of (fictional) accidental gigolo Kieran McGrath's many female conquests in Aurora Theatre Company's Bay Area Premiere of PALOMINO Photo by David Allen

David Cale on solo play ‘Palomino’, talking to himself and PG-13 (Interview)

I can get more sexually explicit than I could when I wrote the first section of the show for NPR's 'The Next Big Thing'
Fox Theatre

Broadway By the Bay presents ‘Our Hats are Off!’

"It is sure to be a night of great music and good laughs!"
Keith Pinto, Molly Bell In the Fringe NYC production Photo credit: Dixie Sheridan

Theater Review: ‘Becoming Britney’ has pop

I don't think I will ever see a hospital delivery scene ("Push It Out") that tops the one in Becoming Britney.
Eugene Brancoveanu

Theater Review: ‘Dracula’ is slick, sensual

Seductively crafted, beautiful to watch, the performances are energetic, never too serious.
West Side Story Cast List: Matt Cavenaugh Karen Olivo Cody Green George Akram Josefina Scaglione Steve Bassett Kyle Brenn Joshua Buscher Mike Cannon Kyle Coffman Joey Haro Eric Hatch Curtis Holbrook Michael Mastro Danielle Polanco Jennifer Sanch

Theater Review: ‘West Side Story’ opens at the San Francisco Orpheum

Last night, those first 45 seconds at the Orpheum were nothing short of breathtaking.
Dracula - Center REP Theatre

Broadway veteran Eugene Brancoveanu on Dracula, seduction, scaring his daughter (interview)

He's definitely someone your parents don't want you to be with.
Naughty & Nice - Aurora Theatre Company

Aurora Theatre Company plans a ‘Naughty & Nice’ Christmas

NAUGHTY & NICE is sure to be a yuletide treat.
Broadway San Jose presents RAIN, a Tribute to Beatles. Photo credit: Cylla von Tiedemann

Theater Review: Beatlemania all over again in ‘RAIN’

I wondered: can I endure more than 15 minutes of Beatles music?
Ebenezer Scrooge (James Carpenter, right) scolds his overworked employee Bob Cratchit (A.C.T. core acting company member Gregory Wallace) on Christmas Eve. Production photos by Kevin Berne (www.kevinberne.com).

A.C.T. ushers in the holidays with ‘A Christmas Carol’

"Dickens realized that if Scrooge’s imagination could be stimulated, it would be possible for him to wake up on Christmas morning an entirely new man."
Danny Rahim, Raad Rawi and Michael Cochrane star in The Great Game: Afghanistan, an epic production from London receiving its West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep. Photographer: John Haynes

Review: ‘The Great Game: Afghanistan’ an Anderson Cooper-free marathon

Oozing Lawrence of Arabia-like aesthetic it's a truly marvelous scene.