Premiere: A lavish ‘Anna Karenina’ at Opera San Jose
The opening stage set is stunning, writhe with foreboding dramatic lines, brooding lighting and rich textures.
Review: ‘The Final Scene’ a fun, soapy version of 30 Rock
Famous events -- JFK's assassination, the Mets winning the World Series, the moon landing, Nixon -- are recalled by marks on the set, and camera tracking set-ups. In this world, soap stars never die.
Back in the USSR with ‘The Letters’
Her superior, an apparatchik known only as “Director” enters, vaguely handsome in a Donald Trump dunderhead kind of way.
Walking with the King
MLK mugs for Camae's make-believe camera and we laugh as King does his version of Elvis. The images fly, pure poetry.
‘Man in a Case’ at Berkeley Rep – Striking visuals, experimental performance art (Review)
Mikhail Baryshnikov stars, and might be reason enough for date night at the theater. Man in a Case seems the perfect vehicle to showcase his veteran talents.
Review: ‘No Man’s Land’ with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen
Yes, but what does it all mean?
San Francisco Opera offers new music, “fresh explorations” for 2023-24 season
Music Director Eun Sun Kim To Lead Annual Presentations of Works by Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner Beginning with IL TROVATORE and LOHENGRIN.
‘The Producers’ at Hillbarn a winner
Perhaps the greatest compliment one can give this production of the Tony Award-winning musical is that one forgets that it's “community 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.
Review: ‘4000 Miles’ at A.C.T.
There are bright moments, but ultimately sparks do not fly.
