The Bay Area Premiere of "Goldfish" is a gritty and heart wrenching study by playwright John Kolvenbach into the bonds that unite us as fathers, mothers, sons and daughters and what happens when change threatens them. Leo (Rod Gnapp) is the father to a loving teenage son, Albert (Andrew Pastides)....

Lucile Ball, your new play has arrived. It's called Bermuda Avenue Triangle, and just opened at the Hillbarn Theatre in Foster City. Oh, I must warn you. Times have changed. A lot. I hope you don't mind a bit of choice language. This is Las Vegas after all. And,...

Directed by Joe Duffy, the Palo Alto Players’ RENT opened to a standing ovation.  With its high energy, strong vocals, it’s sure to be on theater-goers’ short list of what to see on the Peninsula until it closes on May 9. Staging such a well-known show is particularly challenging for small...

It warrants repeat viewings, if not for the trivia alone: a flushing toilet, the bra (white, then black), Hitch's last B&W, Vera Miles' wig, references to birds.

"You’re very comforting. I don’t know why. You’re like a very small casserole - has anyone ever told you that?’"

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'

Mark Anderson Phillips in the lead role is a stand-out.

The three hour show included all that we love about ZinZanni - a great 5 course meal, crowd involvement in riotous competitions and performances, spell binding acts, and even the train transformed into a Mexican themed event.

Not having drunk the blue kool-aid, I was ready to dismiss it as a techno version of Gallagher watermelon-smashing. Little did I know that this was merely one step in the BMG experience as the group slowly built the tension.

No humorless left wing hacks, the SFMT laughs at themselves, with characters like “Working Class Man,” and ups the ante by confronting the two-dimensionality of their subject material with a commedia dell'arte approach.