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The 1959 musical “Fiorello!” is by no means a knockout. But 42nd…
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There’s an exquisite scene in the middle of “Her Portmanteau,” playwright Mfoniso…
It’s a great idea for a play: a writer named Alice, who’s…
There are a few novel things about “Hamilton” at the Orpheum in…
Hello, Betty! Classy Broadway staple and TV star Betty Buckley fills the…
Donald Webber Jr., portraying Aaron Burr in the new San Francisco run…
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First the good news: Bay Area Musicals, now in its fourth season,…
What might compel a white American teenage girl to join terrorists in…
An alarm that sounded during a medical emergency at a performance of…
Many of the works of the dark and often misogynistic 19th-century Swedish…
What longtime American Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff was to British…
Myths make magic in Mary Zimmerman’s “Metamorphoses.” Moving, dreamlike and thrillingly theatrical,…
The first words in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”…
Playwright Lauren Yee has called her autobiographical show “King of the Yees,”…
Solo playwright-performer Dan Hoyle is such a gifted actor, so transformative and…
