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Monday, February 3, 2025

Artistic Director Lance Gardner returns to the stage in personal-meets-political play ‘Waste’ by Jessica Zack

Lance Gardner, Marin Theatre’s artistic director, rediscovers his passion for acting in new collaboration with Carey Perloff. 

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

The silence is alive in Berkeley Rep’s stage adaptation of ‘The Thing About Jellyfish’ by Jessica Zack

Ali Benjamin tells the Chronicle about writing her bestselling novel about a griefstruck girl, and what’s exciting about its theater adaptation. 

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:23PM
Friday, November 10, 2023

‘It’s a really fun trick to pull off’: Why Billy Crudup is returning to the Bay Area by Jessica Zack

The Tony and Emmy award-winning actor portrays 19 different characters in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s “Harry Clarke.”

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM
Thursday, September 15, 2022

How Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin tackled ‘suicide mission’ of adapting ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ for Broadway by Jessica Zack

BroadwaySF’s touring production of Harper Lee’s 1960 novel runs at the Golden Gate Theatre through Oct. 9, offering a fresh take on the beloved story.

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM
Thursday, June 2, 2022

Berkeley Rep alum comes home with harrowing, Tony-nominated ‘Dana H.’ by Jessica Zack

Les Waters directs the true story told in the voice of playwright Lucas Hnath's mother, who survived a prolonged, violent crime in 1997.

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM
Friday, May 6, 2022

Carey Perloff helps unlock the mysteries of her two favorite playwrights’ complex, dramatic worlds by Jessica Zack

Longtime ACT artistic director's new book is a personal examination of the two writers who have most deeply influenced her, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s unscripted ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ delivers rhymes and joyful catharsis by Jessica Zack

The interactive freestyle-rap production just finished its second Broadway run and begins its national tour in San Francisco.

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM
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