Wednesday, April 30, 2025
A TALE OF TWO CITIES Theater is all about storytelling, and stories don’t come any better crafted than Jon Robin Baitz’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated Other Desert Cities. The SF Bay Area is …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:53PMFriday, April 25, 2025
LOVE AND CHANGE, SONOMA STYLE Dating and mating get fully examined and fully skewered in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Sonoma Arts Live in downtown Sonoma, through May 4. Ably …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:49AMMonday, March 17, 2025
THE ART OF MAKING ART An extravagant art purchase causes a major upheaval among three old friends in Yasmina Reza’s Art, at Berkeley’s Ashby Stage through April 9. David Sinaiko and Beno…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:25PMNAPA’S LUCK PENNY GOES TO POT– IN A GOOD WAY A hokey 1930s propaganda film runs headlong into Beach Blanket Babylon in Reefer Madness at Napa’s Lucky Penny Productions through March 23…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:25PMThursday, February 20, 2025
YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART Two young immigrant women find joy and hope in a budding friendship in Lloyd Suh’s The Heart Sellers, at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre through March 9. The show moves to…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:51PMMonday, February 17, 2025
FANTASTIC FROGGY Jennifer Haley’s audacious graphic novel Froggy comes roaring to life on the Margaret Lesher Theatre’s big stage in Walnut Creek, and it’s one of the freshest theatri…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:12PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
WELL-SEASONED THEATER IS LOADED WITH FLAVOR Welcome to 1999, a time of hysteria over the impending Y2K crisis, widespread fear of monosodium glutamate (MSG), crude video games and crude popu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:50AMSunday, February 2, 2025
SIX DEGREES SPOOFS UPPER-CLASS PRETENTIONS Sonoma Arts Live (SAL) has launched an ambitious production of Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare’s now-classic tale of belief and deception a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:28PMMonday, December 16, 2024
THERE’S A LESSON HERE: EVEN WITHOUT THE BIG PARTY, THE MESSAGE RINGS CLEAR Charles Dickens’ beloved A Christmas Carol is among the holiday season’s most welcome recurring theater produ…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:36PMSaturday, November 30, 2024
IF THE HEAT IN AMERICA’S KITCHEN IS GETTING YOU DOWN, HEAD TO WAITRESS AT SF PLAYHOUSE San Francisco Playhouse has delivered an incredible gift for the winter holiday season: Waitress, Jes…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:07PMThursday, November 21, 2024
MASQUERS KNOWS THE STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL, MAGICAL COMEDY Alfred Hitchcock gets a good-natured but thorough pummeling in The 39 Steps at Masquers Playhouse in Point Richmond, through December…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:59PMThursday, November 7, 2024
DRAGON LADY ROARS AT CENTER REP Sara Porkalob’s solo tribute to her grandmother is both an astounding theatrical event and a master class in storytelling. Part biography, part autobiograp…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:47PMTuesday, October 29, 2024
COWARD’S ANGELS ARE A LAUGH RIOT Almost one hundred years after its somewhat scandalous debut, Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels is enjoying a revival at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre, where it…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:28AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
A BEAUTIFUL MUSICAL GEM IN SONOMA COUNTY Carole King is unquestionably one of the most influential American songwriters of the late 20th century. Through October 13, Spreckels Theater Compan…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:21AMSunday, June 16, 2024
A COMPELLING ECO-DYSTOPIAN STORY The destruction of tropical ecosystems has been a worldwide concern since the 1960s. Through June 23, San Francisco’s Magic Theatre examines the crisis in …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:01AMSunday, January 14, 2024
August Wilson’s Portrait of a Man at War with Himself by Barry Willis Meet Troy Maxon, Pittsburgh garbage collector, former baseball talent, father of two sons, and a man grappling might…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 02:05AMMonday, June 26, 2017
Miranda’s Rap Extravaganza Makes Pop Art of History by Barry Willis When tickets for the national touring production of “Hamilton” went on sale this past spring, at $200 for the cheape…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:16PMThursday, February 16, 2017
Barry Willis is a writer, editor, and artist living in Sonoma County. A theater critic for the Marin Independent Journal, and formerly an art and theater critic with the Pacific Sun, he has …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:55PM 
