Saturday, April 19, 2025
The U.S. premiere of the courtroom drama blends historical testimony, modern elements and feminist themes of revenge with mixed success.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:31PMFriday, March 28, 2025
The playwright’s drama masterfully intertwines Homeric myth and personal memory in a poignant solo performance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:16PMThursday, March 27, 2025
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is reimagined in this production, directed by Margo Hall, as a vibrant comedy exploring the complexities of modern manhood.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:02PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
Marin Theatre’s production of “Waste” delves into English Parliamentary power struggles, captivating with its enduring societal truths.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:43PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
By mounting a play that blends a murder mystery with the Slavic folklore figure of Baba Yaga, new artistic director Lance Gardner leads with a work of swirling complications.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:22PMThursday, March 28, 2024
The production at Berkeley’s Ashby Stage struggles to find nimble footing, but still manages to entertain.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:14PMSunday, March 10, 2024
In San Jose playwright Madhuri Shekar’s eco-play, two women dream of breaking academia's glass ceiling and rescuing honeybees.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:46PMFriday, February 16, 2024
Though Mary Kathryn Nagle’s play lays out carefully engineered juxtapositions, the Aurora Theatre production gets in its own way more often than not.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:40PMFriday, February 2, 2024
Most families dread the holiday season. The Dahls in Berkeley Repertory's latest drama, written by “Russian Doll” co-creator Leslye Headland, are no different.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 11:26AMSunday, January 21, 2024
Steven Anthony Jones bids farewell to Bay Area theater with his heroic tribute performance in “How I Learned What I Learned.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:58PMMonday, October 30, 2023
The Grammy-winning Broadway performer provided an invigorating opening night to the 13th season of Bay Area Cabaret at the Venetian Room.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:07PMSaturday, June 24, 2023
Traci Tolmaire’s heady docu-drama imagines a conversation between James Baldwin, Nina Simone and Lorraine Hansberry.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:40PMFriday, June 23, 2023
In Madeleine George’s funny and foreboding play, the climate crisis is comically urgent.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:18PMSunday, April 9, 2023
The S.F. company opens its 30th season with an inventive staging of George Saunders' short story about a vet dealing with the trauma of the battlefield.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:57PMMonday, March 13, 2023
The one-woman tribute starring Greta Ogelsby delivers mostly uplifting message, though sheds light on how little progress U.S. has made.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:12PMSaturday, December 10, 2022
If the show doesn’t always conjure the magic, to paraphrase one of its lines, you’d have to try hard not to have fun and have your heart tugged along the way.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:59PMMonday, December 5, 2022
As a sustained feat of musical tribute, “Halie!” stakes its claim in clear and often stirring musical terms. It’s as a bio-musical that the show falters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:04PMWednesday, November 23, 2022
If “Wuthering Heights” doesn’t equal the best of Emma Rice's works, it delivers plenty to savor and recollect.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:30PMSunday, March 13, 2022
"Otto Frank," a solo show starring the Berkeley-born actor, spreads out a cloak of human suffering and depravity from across the centuries and around the globe.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:13PMFriday, July 30, 2021
The cause was metastatic breast cancer. There are tentative plans for a memorial service at Z Space in October.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 06:26PMWednesday, June 9, 2021
Jeanne Sakata’s documentary solo play reopened mainstream, live in-person theater to San Francisco. The production runs through July 3.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:13PMFriday, May 20, 2011
San Francisco audiences are about to enter a theatrical time machine with the dial spun back 35 years. Where they land, in a warmly awaited musical "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City" tha…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:17PM 
