EXIT Theatre

From left, Megan Briggs, Amitis Khoroushi and Laura Domingo appear in Exit Theatre’s “Vampire Christmas.” (Courtesy Jay Yamada)

Undead resemble people in ‘Vampire Christmas’

Vampires have issues, too. In Stuart Bousel and Allison Page’s new holiday…

 

Don Wood and Mikka Bonel appear in Exit Theatre’s production of Eugene Ionesco’s “Exit the King.” (Courtesy photo)

Existential truths in ‘Exit the King’

Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco, one of the mid-20th-century’s Theatre of the Absurdists,…

 

Christina Augello as Queen Elizabeth, center, is a high point of EXIT Theatre's “Paradise Street.” (Courtesy Jay Yamada)

EXIT Theatre’s ‘Paradise Street’ loses laughs amid chaos

The works of British-born playwright Clive Barker, who’s also a horror-fiction writer,…

 

From left, Laura Loy, Jeff Desautels and Anna Sell appear in “Mom? A Comedy of Mourners” at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. (Courtesy Cathy Restivo)

Fringe Fest: Indie theater gone wild

Running Friday through Sept. 26, the 24th annual San Francisco Fringe Festival,…

From left, Laura Loy, Jeff Desautels and Anna Sell appear in “Mom? A Comedy of Mourners” at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. (Courtesy Cathy Restivo)

Christmas is a hoot with Cora

If there is any place in the world a celebrated comic playwright…

Take your chances at the Fringe Fest

It’s a crap shoot, of course — the San Francisco Fringe Festival…

Strange magic of Christian Cagigal

“Strange things will happen and dark stories will be told,” says magician…

An intriguing, ominous ‘Wind and Rain’

The traditional Irish ballad “The Wind and Rain” — in which a…