Friday, August 16, 2019
August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" is considered a stage classic yet strongly misogynistic -- two new S.F. adaptations address that issue.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Multi Ethnic Theater presents August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" in San Francisco through Sept. 1.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PMLamplighters is well-versed in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'H.M.S. Pinafore," and its shows in this razor-sharp production.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Sarah Ruhl's comedy "The Clean House" follows an improbable yet charming turn of events; it plays through Sept. 8 in Alameda.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:45AMFriday, August 9, 2019
PlayGround, the Bay Area company promoting new plays and playwrights, is hosting a series of new works in SF Innovators Showcase.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:45PMSilicon Valley Shakespeare's summer season features an intriguing choice -- Mary Zimmerman's stunning "The White Snake," based on a Chinese legend.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AMRegina Evans presents an unflinching look at human trafficking in her riveting, unsettling demand for change at Ubuntu Theater Project in Oakland.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AMMonday, August 5, 2019
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's acclaimed New Works Festival, which kicks off Aug. 9, played matchmaker for these two writers.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:45AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
Santa Cruz Shakespeare presents strong productions of 2 classics: Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Errors' and Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice.'
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:21PMThursday, July 25, 2019
Livermore showcases a classic musical in this light-hearted romp.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:32PMTuesday, July 23, 2019
"Cabaret," full of decadent song-and-dance scenes and political turmoil, seems more relevant than ever in S.F. and San Jose productions.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:01PMMonday, July 22, 2019
Two short Caryl Churchill plays, "Here We Go" and "Escaped Alone," are presented in a Berkeley church by Anton’s Well Theater Company.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:00PMFriday, July 19, 2019
African-American Shakespeare Company presents Migdalia Cruz's adaptation of classic 'Macbeth,' set in a homeless camp.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:32PMShotgun Players in Berkeley presents 'Kill Move Paradise' by James Ijames, in which black lives cut short by racism grapple with the afterlife.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AMTuesday, July 16, 2019
Long before "Book of Mormon," "South Park" co-creator Trey Parker wrote "Cannibal! The Musical," which finally gets its Bay Area premiere.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:45AMMonday, July 15, 2019
A month after winning a Regional Theatre Tony Award, TheatreWorks opens 50th season with clever, heartfelt 'Language Archive.'
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:20PM"Book of Mormon," the naught but sort of sweet musical from “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes to Broadway San Jose.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
SF Shakes is performing Shakespeare's beloved comedy "As You Like It" at Bay Area parks, complete with songs from SF band the The Kilbanes.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:55PMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Livermore Shakespeare Festival presents the Bard's bitter "Othello," set in this production during the Civil War.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:54PMTony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe marks 60th anniversary touring Bay Area with another politically charged satire, "Treasure Island."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:45AMFriday, July 5, 2019
The musical "Once on The Island," playing in El Cerrito, has a split personality: pleasing songs but a disheartening tale of clashing cultures.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AMTuesday, July 2, 2019
The Tony Award-winning Disney musical "Newsies," born from a cinematic flop, opens the season at Woodminster Summer Musicals in Oakland.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:00PMMonday, July 1, 2019
Several theater companies are dealing with temporary displacement for the next year or so due to construction work on a handful of Berkeley facilities. Live Oak Theatre is going to be closed…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:53PMFriday, June 28, 2019
Joan Didion's memoir and play, "The Year of Magical Thinking," gets a powerful Bay Area premiere at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:59PMMonday, June 24, 2019
"Big," a musical version of the Tom Hanks movie about a boy who suddenly inherits a man's body, suffers from so-so tunes and creepiness factor.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:38PMQuantum Dragon Theatre's stage version of Ray Bradbury's chilling novel 'Fahrenheit 451' -- about a society where books are illegal -- plays in S.F.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AMFriday, June 21, 2019
Former ACT artistic director Carey Perloff debuts a new play that skewers the Bay Area's venture capitalism world at SF Playhouse.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AMThursday, June 20, 2019
Former American Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff is debuting a new play at SF Playhouse.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:58PMMonday, June 17, 2019
The groundbreaking musical 'Rent' has returned to SF, although it plays more like a retro nugget than an urgent look at struggling youth.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:23PMThe Tony Award-winning musical "Once" gets its regional theater premiere via 42nd Street Moon through June 30 at the Gateway Theatre in S.F.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AMFriday, June 14, 2019
Magic Theatre powerfully revives Luis Luis Alfaro's "Oedipus el Rey," an adaptation of the Greek tragedy set in L.A.'s violent gang world.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:00PM 
