“Three generations of loyalty to the same company,” says Stan (Rod Gnapp), the level-headed bartender, in the first act of…
The most interesting character in “The Gangster of Love,” Jessica Hagedorn’s Magic Theatre world premiere adaptation of her own semi-autobiographical…
“Eden,” the beautiful, poetic first play in Barbara Hammond’s “The Eva Trilogy,” is entirely a soliloquy, delivered on a bare…
“I don’t love you. I don’t need you. I don’t want you,” May tells Eddie, about two-thirds of the way…
Playwright Will Eno has a brilliant way of manipulating language to probe the heart of the human experience, at least…
Enough happens in Jessica Hagedorn’s 1998 drama “Dogeaters,” now in a revised version at the Magic Theatre, to make the…
In “Fred’s Diner,” each of the three women working long hours in dead-end jobs in this roadside diner cherishes hopes…
The California Shakespeare Theater has built its reputation on works by its namesake and other English language playwrights, but with…
At the beginning of San Francisco-based playwright Octavio Solis’ riveting new drama, “Se Llama Cristina,” premiering at Magic Theatre, a…
As Sharr White’s intense, compact new play, “The Other Place,” proceeds, mysteries deepen. Why is Juliana, a middle-aged research scientist,…
