Friday, 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 12:00PMMonday, June 10, 2019
Rajiv Joseph's "Archduke," playing TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, is a dark comedy that shows how the violent start to World War I could happen today.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:21PMFriday, June 7, 2019
Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' has been adapted for the stage and plays in Lafayette through June 22.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:04PMThursday, June 6, 2019
ACT's revival of Ionesco's absurdist comedy 'Rhinoceros' could not be a better fit for these maddening times; and it's a great production to boot.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:21PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
Sarah Burgess' sharp satire "Kings" comically deconstructs Washington politics; it plays through June 22 at Shotgun Players.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:28PMRachel Bublitz' hard-hitting play "Ripped" depicts a sexual encounter that ends very badly; it's playing at Z Space in San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:35PMTuesday, June 4, 2019
Theatre Rhinoceros presents "Action Hero," a new queer play by John Fisher about a movie star with secrets.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMShakespeare's romantic comedy "Midsummer Night's Dream" is all over the SF Bay Area, with 2 more productions about to open in Concord and San Jose.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Interactive theater troupe Idiot String presents the immersive "Port Stories," focusing on the East Bay community of Port Costa.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMFriday, May 31, 2019
"Significant Other," a Broadway comedy getting its Bay Area debut at SF Playhouse, follow a gay man's hard-luck look for love.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:21PMBrett Easton Ellis' controversial novel has been adapted into a wildly entertaining musical at S.F.'s Ray of Light Theatre.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:26PMUbuntu Theater Project in Oakland presents a fast-paced and youthful take on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:45AM"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," which debuted in S.F. in 2013, is back in town at the Golden Gate Theatre through June 9.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:45AMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Center Repertory Company in Walnut Creek presents "Woody Sez,' a Woody Guthrie jukebox musical that touches on the folk legend's songs and politics.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:51PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Lynne Kaufman's "Who Killed Sylvia Plath" at The Marsh in S.F. takes viewers inside the troubled mind of the iconic poet.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:51PMLauren Gunderson's "Silent Sky" at City Lights Theater in San Jose tells the inspiring story of groundbreaking scientist Henrietta Leavitt.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:15AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Wayne Harris created and performs "Mother's Milk" in Berkeley, featuring some terrific music and touching stories about his life and family.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:21PMFriday, May 17, 2019
Patricia Milton's new play at Central Works in Berkeley finds a group of female British detectives on the hunt for a violent misogynist.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:56PMThursday, May 16, 2019
From Shakespeare to Broadway musicals to political satire, here are 14 SF Bay Area stages to see outdoor theater over the summer.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:15AMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Iconic stage musical "Fiddler on the Roof" comes to San Jose, starring Israeli actor Yehezkel Lazarov as Tevye, and its story of religious persecution seems more timely than ever.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:30PMMonday, May 13, 2019
Playwright Aaron Posner has another cheeky Anton Chekhov send-up with "Life Sucks," playing at Custom Made Theatre in SF.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMFriday, May 10, 2019
We Players artistic director Ava Roy re-invents Shakespeare's tragedy 'Hamlet" as a cowboy romance in "Undiscovered Country" in S.F.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMS.F.'s Arabian Shakespeare Fest revives Betty Shamieh's "Territories," a drama set during the Crusades.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PMThursday, May 9, 2019
Jason Mendez's new play "Supremacy" explores Black Lives Matters within a framework borrowed from superhero comics.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:45PMTheatreFIRST and Shotgun players present Burlingame playwright Geetha Reddy's 'Far, Far Better Things," an adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:29PMMonday, May 6, 2019
Poland's Song of the Goat Theatre brings its passionate "King Lear" song cycle to UC Berkeley May 11-12.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PMSaturday, May 4, 2019
Fremont native Kristin Stokes stars as a Greek goddess in the Percy Jackson musical "The Lightning Thief" playing in San Jose May 10-12.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMFriday, May 3, 2019
"Weightless," a rock musical by the Bay Area duo the Kilbanes, is being revived at the Strand Theaters, and that is very good news indeed.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:39PM"Flower Drum Song," a S.F.-set novel that became a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, plays in its updated version at Palo Alto Players.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:52PMDenis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's Bible-themed "The Good Book" at Berkeley Rep eventually finds its groove and tells a compelling story.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:24PMThursday, May 2, 2019
Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is a classic comedy in every sense, and Aurora Theatre gives it a great staging.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AM 
