Another Gem at Berkeley Rep: ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ (Review)
Steven Epp is smart, irrepressible, and so damn funny that you really should pee before entering the theatre.
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 in an extremis Martha Stewart moment.
A Post-electric Play: ‘Mr. Burns’ at A.C.T. (Review)
Dystopic though it may be, there’s forward energy here, if only out of the struggle for more lines, and the rights to those lines.
A Funny Thing Happened… at Foothill’s Smithwick
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum teaches all the elements that make for a great student farce: split second timing, physicality for sight gags and pratfalls, boundless energy paired against restraint, bouncy score, madcap choreography – the list goes on. However, whether you want to...
A monster builder, a master play
A talented cast at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company holds the show together through all its twists and turns.
A swinging Belleville rendezvous at San Francisco Opera Lab
In 2004, Finding Nemo won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. It beat out a very different finalist: the bizarre French-Québécois film The Triplets of Belleville. This near-silent movie with a swinging jazz score is an imaginative adventure set during the Tour de France. The cyclist Champion is...
A powerful ‘Fun Home’, and a new theatrical home for San Francisco
Fun Home doesn’t need my praise. The show, by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Lisa Kron (lyrics and book) won rave reviews and the 2015 Best Musical Tony Award for its Broadway run. But I can’t restrain myself: go, go, go see this! I laughed, I teared up, I sunk...
Magic’s ‘Reel to Reel’ an engaging exploration of sound and memory (Review)
Chances are many of your favorite childhood memories are triggered by a certain smell or sound. In my case, like Mom's homemade chocolate chip cookies, perfect for a stormy winter night in Ottawa. Or, my grandfather filling the night sky in the backyard with a whimsical solo on his...
San Francisco Theater News: SHN is now BroadwaySF, Madonna ‘Madame X Tour’ arrives this month
Theater news out of San Francisco this week regarding branding of one of the city's most prominent theater houses.
SHN has announced a name change. Going forward the company, known for bringing Broadway touring musicals to San Francisco, will be known as BroadwaySF.
Per the news release:
"The new name projects a...
What’s Happening: ‘The Play that Goes Wrong’ to open San Jose Stage Company’s 40th anniversary season
Iconic theater company continues "the mission and the dream."
