Friday, August 12, 2016
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.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:07AMMonday, August 8, 2016
Japanese references and stereotypes are gone in this new adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, being staged by Lamplighters Music Theatre through Aug. 28.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:32PMThursday, August 4, 2016
Susan-Jane Harrison's impressionistic play invokes characters from Greek mythology to create a world where love can't seem to overcome war for people's attention; it plays at Oakland's Fligh…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:16AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Livermore Shakespeare Festival presents a lighthearted adaptation of the Bard's 'The Tempest' at Wente Vineyards through Aug. 7.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:42AMTuesday, July 19, 2016
Tri-Valley Repertory's production of the musical 'Mary Poppins' is saved by winning performance by Rachel Powers in title role.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:10AMMonday, July 18, 2016
TheatreWorks presents Suzanne Bradbeer's drama 'Confederate,' about a reporter and candidate's daughter in the middle of a mushrooming political scandal; it plays in Palo Alto through Aug. 7.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:31PMTuesday, July 12, 2016
'Shrek the Musical,' adapted from the DreamWorks movie, is touching and hilarious in its production at Woodminster Summer Musicals.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:30AMMonday, July 11, 2016
Thanks to a strong performance by Margo Hall and other touches, Cal Shakes presents a moving production of August Wilson's prizewinning 'Fences,' which details the hard life of a struggling …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:34PMLivermore Shakespeare Festival is presenting a Jane Austen adaptation for the third year in a row; this year's production of 'Persuasion' is the best yet.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:34PMSunday, July 10, 2016
Actor/comedian John Leguizamo's solo show 'Latin History for Morons' gets its world premiere at Berkeley Rep, and the meandering work flies on the strength of his comedic talents and charism…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:22PMWednesday, June 22, 2016
Ubuntu Theater Project delivers a powerful rendition of Shakespeare's disturbing 'Othello' in Berkeley, with other productions in Marin and Orinda to follow.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:52AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Penelope Skinner's 'Village Bike,' playing at Berkeley's Ashby Stage, might make you squirm as it follows a pregnant woman who grows sexually frustrated by her inattentive husband.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:15AMMonday, June 13, 2016
Contra Costa Civic Theatre in El Cerrito presents the musical 'American Idiot,' bringing the famed Green Day music and play back to its geographical roots.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:10PMMonday, June 6, 2016
Town Hall Theatre presents 'Play It Again, Sam,' an early romantic comedy by Woody Allen, through June 25 in Lafayette.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:18PMSaturday, June 4, 2016
Berkeley's Impact Theatre will cease regular productions following its goofy and adoring adaptation of Ed Wood's B-movie classic 'Plan 9 From Outer Space.'
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:46AMMonday, May 2, 2016
Berkeley Playhouse's first nonmusical production is a strong adaptation of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Harper Lee's classic civil rights novel.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:44PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Contra Costa Civic Theatre presents 'The Mountaintop,' which imagines Martin Luther King Jr. having a strange, revelatory encounter with a hotel worker on his last night alive; it plays thro…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:54PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
F. Scott Fitzgerald's indictment of the idle rich in 'Great Gatsby' comes through loud and clear in the Role Players Ensemble's production playing in Danville through May 1.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:16PMMonday, April 11, 2016
Oakland's Ubuntu Theatre Project, which has been staging plays in alternative venues, presents John Steinbeck's classic drama at Oakland City Church.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:05PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
'Gypsy,' the classic musical about a showbiz mother from hell and her beleaguered daughter gets a rousing, fun production from Contra Costa Music Theatre.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:54PMMonday, March 28, 2016
Berkeley Playhouse's production of 'The Addams Family' stage musical elevates pretty good material into something better.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:02PMMonday, March 21, 2016
City Lights Theater Company presents a touching production of 'The Elephant Man,' a drama about the famous case of a horribly disfigured man in Victorian England.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:40PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
Altarena Playhouse in Alameda is presenting Donald L. Coburn's tense play about two friends playing gin rummy in a nursing home through April 10.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:18PMSunday, March 13, 2016
Ubuntu Theater Project presents a mesmerizing production of the solo show 'I Am My Own Wife,' which tells the story of a mysterious German transvestite and museum owner.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:41PM 
