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[SHARE]Kate Hamill's wildly inventive adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel "Vanity Fair" plays at ACT through May 12.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:20PM[SHARE]A new play SF's New Conservatory by Philip Dawkins imagines a night of drinking and chatting between playwrights Tennessee Williams and William Inge.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:55PM[SHARE]Cal Performances presents French director Arthur Nauzyciel's unique production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," set in the JFK era.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:16PM[SHARE]Robert Schenkkan's "All the Way" captures LBJ's turbulent first year as president; it's playing in El Cerrito through May 5.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AM[SHARE]ACT in San Francisco is staging playwright and actress Kate Hamill's feminist re-invention of "Vanity Fair."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PM[SHARE]Charles Ludlam's fast-paced two-person comedy "The Mystery of Irma Vep" spoofs all manner of horror and gothic shows -- it plays at Danville's Village Theatre through April 28.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:38PM[SHARE]Playwright and actress Lisa Ramirez updates a 19th-century Russian classic to examine Oakland's homeless problem in "Down Here Below."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:31PM[SHARE]... And they're both portraying spoiled brat Veruca Salt in the touring production of "Charlie and the Chocolate factory."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:15AM[SHARE]Contra Costa Musical Theatre presents "Matilda," the musical based on Roald Dahl's beloved book, at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AM[SHARE]Part of Mfoniso Udofia's sweeping Ufot Cycle, following a Nigerian immigrant family, 'Old Age' finds characters facing ghostly forces.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:45AM[SHARE]Chekhov's "Three Sisters" are back and stuck in limbo in the thoroughly entertaining "Debbie Downers" at Berkeley's Ashby Stage.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AM[SHARE]Theatrical legend Luis Valdez debuts "Adios Mama Carlota," another colorful world premiere with an eye on Mexican history, at San Jose Stage.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:30AM[SHARE]Hershey Felder works a lot of his own history into "Paris Love Story," getting its world premiere at TheatreWorks.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AM[SHARE]Oakland troupe Ragged Wing Ensemble revives its fantasy stage hit "Time Sensitive," in which melting ice blocks capture the passing of time.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:16PM[SHARE]The cabaret show "Spoonful of Sherman" pays tribute to a legendary songwriting family (think Mary Poppins") gets U.S. premiere in San Jose.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:00PM[SHARE]"Pinned Butterfly" at Concord's nomadic B8 theater company asks whether bisexuals are the Rodney Dangerfields of the LGBT community.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:55PM[SHARE]Center Rep in Walnut Creek presents "The Diary of Anne Frank," which seems almost strangely uplifting even as the Holocaust approaches.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:40PM[SHARE]Theater legend Luis Valdez presents a new play, "Adiós Mamá Carlota," looking at a lesser-known chapter of Mexican history.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:56PM[SHARE]"La Ronde," a 19th-century play about sex, gets a complete re-imagining by Cutting Ball Theater in S.F.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:00PM[SHARE]A. Zell Williams' play "Urban Retreat" explores whether hip-hop has lost its true purpose; it shows in SF through April 6.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PM[SHARE]The Stephen Sondheim musical "Company," revolving around a conflicted bachelor, opens March 29 at Altarena Playhouse in Alameda.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:00PM[SHARE]Custom Made Theatre presents Bess Wohl's dark comedy "American Hero" in S.F. through April 16.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:12PM[SHARE]Geoff Sobelle's unusual play constructs a house on Berkeley Rep's stage and explores the concept of "home" in unique ways.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:10PM[SHARE]Lamplighters Music Theatre adds a sequel as part of its production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Trial by Jury."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:58PM[SHARE]African-American Shakespeare Company presents Leslie Lee's play about World War II-ers Tuskegee Airmen.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:14PM[SHARE]"The Jungle," playing at The Curran in SF, re-creates a refugee camp in an immersive show meant to humanize the plight of the dispossessed.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:37PM[SHARE]Anna Ziegler's troubling "he said, she said" drama about an alleged sexual assault on a college campus gets a deft production at Aurora Theatre in Berkeley.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:31PM[SHARE]"Falsettos," the 1992 musical comedy about a husband and father coming out as gay was revived in 2016 and is now playing at SF's Golden Gate Theatre.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:30AM[SHARE]'WaistWatchers the Musical' subverts classic and contemporary songs in a 90-minute comedic revue about women with body issues; it's playing in Walnut Creek and San Jose through Sept. 25.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:26AM[SHARE]Woodminster Summer Musicals' production of the classic Kander and Ebb musical 'Chicago' is a first-rate production that's a blast from start to finish.
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