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Saturday, April 21, 2018

Theater Review: HEAD OVER HEELS (Pre-Broadway San Francisco Premiere) by Patricia Schaefer

GO-GO SEE THIS SHOW Head Over HeelsÂ is an exhilarating and seemingly improbable musical mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century work The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadi…

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

San Francisco Theater Review: HEISENBERG (A.C.T.) by Patricia Schaefer

A PRINCIPLED PRODUCTION Director Hal Brooks delivers a remarkably authentic and poignant tale with A.C.T.'s production of Heisenberg, a short play based on a rather unremarkable human relati…

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

San Diego Theater Review: THE LAST MATCH (The Old Globe's Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre) by Patricia Schaefer

WHOOSH! "All the world's a stage," Shakespeare memorably said. "And all the men and women merely players." In a world premiere at the Old Globe, Anna Ziegler's new play The Last MatchÂ suc…

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Sunday, November 16, 2014

San Francisco Opera Review: LA BOHÃˆME (SF Opera) by Patricia Schaefer

LES MIZ DIRECTOR JOHN CAIRD BRINGSÂ LA BOHÃˆME TO SFO San Francisco Opera's crowd-pleasing rendition of La Bohème, which opened on Friday night, offers vocal enchantment unhampered by a…

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

San Francisco Theater Review: JERUSALEM (San Francisco Playhouse) by Patricia Schaefer

PATOIS, DIALECTS AND DELIVERY LEAVE US IN THE WOODS Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, currently making a West coast premiere at San Francisco Playhouse, presents a darkly comic tale from the frin…

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Bay Area Theater Review: A BRIGHT NEW BOISE (Aurora Theatre) by Patricia Schaefer

A BRIGHT NEW PRODUCTION Salvation can't come soon enough when you're a long-term, low-wage slave worker at the local Hobby Lobby. Samuel D. Hunter's tragicomic look at life within the cultur…

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

San Francisco Opera Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (San Francisco Opera) by Patricia Schaefer

STROP THE PRESSES! A NEW RAZOR-SHARP BARBER COMES TO TOWN Gioachino Rossini’s frolicsome 1816 comic operaÂ The Barber of SevilleÂ is superbly realized with ebullience and verve in …

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Regional Theater Review: CYMBELINE (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) by Patricia Schaefer

NO PROBLEM WITH THIS "PROBLEM PLAY" In Oregon Shakespeare Festival's performance of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, director Bill Rauch manages to brew a potion of familiar Shakespearean themes inc…

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Regional Theater Review: KING LEAR (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) by Patricia Schaefer

LEAR AND HUNGRY TIMES With only a small caramel as dinner, I was concerned about the three-hour running time of director Bill Rauch's contemporary adaptation of King Lear at Oregon Shakespea…

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Monday, June 24, 2013

San Francisco Opera Review: THE GOSPEL OF MARY MAGDALENE (San Francisco Opera) by Patricia Schaefer

THE ISHTAR OF OPERA What if the real historical Jesus was someone quite different from what we've been told?Â What if he was born a bastard, kept a lover and then married her? What if Mar…

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

San Francisco Theater Review: ABIGAIL'S PARTY (San Francisco Playhouse) by Patricia Schaefer

THEATER TO THE MAX What's to love about the 1970s?Â As SF Playhouse's presentation of Mike Leigh's acclaimed Abigail's Room shows, quite a bit.Â Director Amy Glazer offers a cornucopia…

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Monday, June 3, 2013

San Francisco Theater Review: INTO THE WOODS (Ray of Light Theatre at The Eureka) by Patricia Schaefer

RAY OF LIGHT FINDS THE HUMANITY WITHIN FRACTURED FAIRY TALES Into the Woods has been produced many times since its 1987 Broadway premiere, but it is unlikely to have benefited from as ebulli…

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