Magic Theatre powerfully revives Luis Luis Alfaro's "Oedipus el Rey," an adaptation of the Greek tragedy set in L.A.'s violent gang world.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:00PMRajiv Joseph's "Archduke," playing TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, is a dark comedy that shows how the violent start to World War I could happen today.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:21PMPedro Almodóvar's acclaimed film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' has been adapted for the stage and plays in Lafayette through June 22.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:04PMACT's revival of Ionesco's absurdist comedy 'Rhinoceros' could not be a better fit for these maddening times; and it's a great production to boot.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:21PMSarah Burgess' sharp satire "Kings" comically deconstructs Washington politics; it plays through June 22 at Shotgun Players.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:28PMRachel Bublitz' hard-hitting play "Ripped" depicts a sexual encounter that ends very badly; it's playing at Z Space in San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:35PMTheatre Rhinoceros presents "Action Hero," a new queer play by John Fisher about a movie star with secrets.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMShakespeare's romantic comedy "Midsummer Night's Dream" is all over the SF Bay Area, with 2 more productions about to open in Concord and San Jose.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AMInteractive theater troupe Idiot String presents the immersive "Port Stories," focusing on the East Bay community of Port Costa.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PM"Significant Other," a Broadway comedy getting its Bay Area debut at SF Playhouse, follow a gay man's hard-luck look for love.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:21PMBrett Easton Ellis' controversial novel has been adapted into a wildly entertaining musical at S.F.'s Ray of Light Theatre.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:26PMUbuntu Theater Project in Oakland presents a fast-paced and youthful take on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:45AM"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," which debuted in S.F. in 2013, is back in town at the Golden Gate Theatre through June 9.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:45AMCenter Repertory Company in Walnut Creek presents "Woody Sez,' a Woody Guthrie jukebox musical that touches on the folk legend's songs and politics.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:51PMLynne Kaufman's "Who Killed Sylvia Plath" at The Marsh in S.F. takes viewers inside the troubled mind of the iconic poet.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:51PMLauren Gunderson's "Silent Sky" at City Lights Theater in San Jose tells the inspiring story of groundbreaking scientist Henrietta Leavitt.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:15AMWayne Harris created and performs "Mother's Milk" in Berkeley, featuring some terrific music and touching stories about his life and family.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:21PMPatricia Milton's new play at Central Works in Berkeley finds a group of female British detectives on the hunt for a violent misogynist.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:56PMFrom Shakespeare to Broadway musicals to political satire, here are 14 SF Bay Area stages to see outdoor theater over the summer.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:15AMIconic stage musical "Fiddler on the Roof" comes to San Jose, starring Israeli actor Yehezkel Lazarov as Tevye, and its story of religious persecution seems more timely than ever.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:30PMPlaywright Aaron Posner has another cheeky Anton Chekhov send-up with "Life Sucks," playing at Custom Made Theatre in SF.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMWe Players artistic director Ava Roy re-invents Shakespeare's tragedy 'Hamlet" as a cowboy romance in "Undiscovered Country" in S.F.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMS.F.'s Arabian Shakespeare Fest revives Betty Shamieh's "Territories," a drama set during the Crusades.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PMJason Mendez's new play "Supremacy" explores Black Lives Matters within a framework borrowed from superhero comics.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:45PMTheatreFIRST and Shotgun players present Burlingame playwright Geetha Reddy's 'Far, Far Better Things," an adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities."
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:29PMPoland's Song of the Goat Theatre brings its passionate "King Lear" song cycle to UC Berkeley May 11-12.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PMFremont native Kristin Stokes stars as a Greek goddess in the Percy Jackson musical "The Lightning Thief" playing in San Jose May 10-12.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PM"Weightless," a rock musical by the Bay Area duo the Kilbanes, is being revived at the Strand Theaters, and that is very good news indeed.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:39PM"Flower Drum Song," a S.F.-set novel that became a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, plays in its updated version at Palo Alto Players.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:52PMDenis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's Bible-themed "The Good Book" at Berkeley Rep eventually finds its groove and tells a compelling story.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:24PMOscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is a classic comedy in every sense, and Aurora Theatre gives it a great staging.
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