So what will it be: an action-packed summer blockbuster prison movie, or a cerebral, somewhat depressing film about radiation and the end of the world? Art vs. money. In David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow we learn that Hollywood moguls are what they are—nothing more, nothing less—despite occasional attempts to change the...

  Aurora Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of lauded Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson’s THE FIRST GRADE. Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross directs this new play from Johnson, whom The Chicago Reader declared “balances gallows humor with acute insight and compassion. He creates characters so real you...

"It might get loud," says The Edge with slight smirk. And boy does it, as he tears into a processor intensive, reverb heavy riff from U2's Get On Your Boots. Although music is featured prominently in the documentary It Might Get Loud, it's really about exploring the window into the creative...

Hooray for Hollywood? David Mamet's interestingly named Speed-the-Plow opens this Friday at the Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View. It marks a busy theater calendar for January. I've spent several evenings working on logistics, trying to figure out how we can attend all the great shows that are lighting up...

I glanced at my watch; ten minutes until the first of eight performances of Riverdance at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts was to commence. It seems a little unreal that I made it to my seat after starting my day at 4 am EST at Ottawa International...

Born out of actors’ frustrations for opportunities to perform and built on the dream to provide those opportunities, Dragon Productions Theatre Company was born in Los Angeles in 1998.  Soon after in 1999, the founder, Meredith Hagedorn moved to the Bay Area and began producing.  In its nomadic state,...

Yes Sweet Can explores the theme of resourcefulness in an intimate setting where the first row of the audience is on the actual stage of the circus performance.

You've seen Cinderella before, but not like this laugh-out-loud, delightful family rendition by the African-American Shakespeare Company. The famous rag-to-riches story gets a soulful makeover, taking place in the bayous of Louisiana. The traditional elements are all here—the slipper, the nasty stepsisters, the prince, and the pursuit of love and...

"Oh God, no!" A performer from the inspiring Yes Sweet Can was approaching me in the front row at last Friday's show. That's all I could say, and think. It's one of the risks of sitting close to the stage, or in the case of the intimate Dance Mission Theater at Mission...