Myths make magic in Mary Zimmerman’s “Metamorphoses.” Moving, dreamlike and thrillingly theatrical, Zimmerman’s deep dive into the myths of Ovid…
A contorted character, not speaking, with eyes closed and arms crossed over her chest, sits onstage as patrons enter Berkeley…
The theater world is filled with slamming doors, but there’s never been an onstage door slammed with the force and…
“This is not a play,” announces playwright-performer Heidi Schreck at the beginning of her new and engaging performance piece/lecture/debate, “What…
The first scene of “Office Hour” feels eerily familiar. Three writing teachers at a nameless university gather to discuss a…
The theater season serves up major tours, offbeat experiments, musicals, comedy and drama. A Fatal Step: Solo performer Jill Vice’s…
As the always politically conscious Berkeley Repertory Theatre expected, American playwright Lillian Hellman’s drama “Watch on the Rhine” feels uncomfortably…
More than marigolds rained down on the sari- and sherwani-bedecked cast at the opening of the musical “Monsoon Wedding” at…
Most Americans have an opinion about Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. But how…
Whoever would have thought a simple sock puppet could be so vicious, so frightening, so obscene, so insidious? In Robert…
