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What longtime American Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff was to British…
Solo playwright-performer Dan Hoyle is such a gifted actor, so transformative and…
If Sarah Treem’s engaging 2014 drama onstage at Custom Made Theatre Co.…
“Paradise Square,” the world-premiere musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, is so emotionally…
Vampires have issues, too. In Stuart Bousel and Allison Page’s new holiday…
“This is just another Bronx tale,” sings actor Joey Barreiro as Calogero,…
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Actor, magician, storyteller extraordinaire Christian Cagigal, owner-operator of the 20-year-old San Francisco…
“Three generations of loyalty to the same company,” says Stan (Rod Gnapp),…
The plays of late-19th-century Russian writer Anton Chekhov are so rich with…
One thing’s for sure: Tennessee Williams loved his female characters -- the…
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Even a whirlwind trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland offers…
