Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is currently presenting a superb cast of two incomparable interpreters of Harold Pinter's notorious ambiguity, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, with Billy…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49PMThursday, August 15, 2013
This production carries an implication of a grittier, more realistic vision ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58AMMonday, July 29, 2013
The Spanish Tragedy is an enormous drama with many speaking parts. Marin Shakespeare's director Lesley Currier has cut and reshaped the text expansively, combining characters and using some …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:36AMFriday, July 19, 2013
Seven actors walk onto a bare stage dressed in semi-grunge outfits. And so begins an enthralling presentation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
The Aurora Theatre Production of Neil Labute's three character play This Is How It Goes is clever, perverse, and appallingly, disturbingly realistic in its examination of race, racism and mi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:19PMMonday, June 17, 2013
George Gershwin Alone is a delightful evening of familiar music, with Hershey Felder performing excerpts from a dozen or so of Gershwin's best-known works on piano: Porgy and Bess, American …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:15PMSunday, June 16, 2013
Oregon Shakespeare Festival is starting their 2013 season with a program of intriguing plays, ranging from modern day takes on The Taming of Shrew and King Lear to a glorified concert versio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
The black comedy is an alarming blend of frenzied comedy, grand melodrama, horrifying violence and the bleakest tragedy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:37PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Both were well known in their day, when poets could make a living and thousands would read their poetry ... Leigh's masterful play satirizes the strains of marital strife and neighborly inte…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:41PMFriday, May 31, 2013
American Conservatory Theatre has brought back Tom Stoppard's 1990 masterpiece about sex, literature, epistemology, sex, landscaping, sex, the second law of thermodynamics and the enticingly…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:17AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
This amazing production was too large to transport on a proscenium stage so it is being presented in the large stadium style on the drill court of the Armory Community Center.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:52PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright, renowned for his work for The New Yorker and a bestselling author, wrote this fictional play about the last days of legendary journalist Oriana Fallaci.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:29PMSunday, January 27, 2013
The two hour forty minute dance-drama brings back to stage the superb Priscilla Lopez with an outstanding cast of young supporting players mostly from New York.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:36AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Shotgun Players are presenting a triumphal production of Georg B�chner's Woyzeck adapted by Robert Wilson with sumptuous music by Tom Waits and mocking lyrics by Kathleen Brennan.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:11PMSunday, November 18, 2012
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is presenting an astounding production of Mary Zimmerman's sensorial feast, The White Snake, through December 23rd.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:03PMDirector Greg MacKellan has assembled some wonderful singer/actors to perform the appealing songs of Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner in this beautiful production.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:03PMAurora Theatre, under the strong direction of Barbara Oliver has put together a program of four of Wilder's greatest shorter works for Wilder Times: Infancy (1962), Childhood (1962), The Hap…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:02PMThursday, October 18, 2012
42nd Street Moon launches its 20th season with a sharp production of Of Thee I Sing. The show was probably the most sophisticated musical of its time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:21PMSunday, September 30, 2012
The Other Place is a new mystery by Sharr White, who also wrote the gripping Annapurna. The Magic Theatre is presenting the West Coast premiere with four splendid actors in an 80-minute prod…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:26PMSunday, September 23, 2012
A powerful production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart is currently being presented at the American Conservatory Theatre, in association with Arena Stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMFriday, September 14, 2012
Flaherty and Ahrens' score is more workmanlike than memorable, but it is fun, and director Robert Barry Fleming, along with a splendid cast of singer/actor/dancers, presents an excellent eve…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:52PMSunday, September 2, 2012
Aurora Theatre opens its 2012-2013 season with The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Kristoffer Diaz's vibrant play about the wacky world of professional wrestling.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:58AMBerkeley Repertory Theatre opens its 2012-2013 season with the clever comedy Chinglish by David Henry Hwang in a co-production with the South Coast Repertory Company.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:57AMThursday, August 23, 2012
Director Mark Rucker and a company of American Conservatory Theatre actors manage to pull off a delightful evening of light entertainment for a warm night.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:51PMThursday, August 16, 2012
Some of it is pretty mundane stuff; playwright Baker manages to flesh out the characters without providing us with huge conflict or the need to explain every bit of back story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMA valiant, gorgeous and outstandingly staged War Horse has come to the Curran stage and is a must see for theatregoers.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMSaturday, August 4, 2012
Jay Manley's production of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize winning musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is upbeat and irresistible, playing in the Smithwick Theatre on the Foothi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:19AMSunday, July 22, 2012
A re-deigned and re-orchestrated vision of Les Misérables has arrived to rock the Orpheum Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00PMAs the Blues Speak Woman says in this fast stepping production of Spunk, George C. Wolfe's 1990 adaptation of the stories of Zora Neale Hurston: "How do you git the git?/With some blues 'n' …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:59PMMonday, July 16, 2012
The ACT production is stuffed with fervent, individual performances that fuse into an incalculably powerful ensemble.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:17PMSunday, June 17, 2012
On a chilly night, a play that begins with a storm and ends with a sea voyage is performed by a restructured group of six actors.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:59AM 
