The latest artistic director to be hired at a local theater, amid…
There’s an exquisite scene in the middle of “Her Portmanteau,” playwright Mfoniso…
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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…
In a theater world filled with perhaps too many stories about dysfunctional…
The theater season serves up major tours, revivals, musicals, comedy and drama…
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…
