Despite some fine acting, the free Actors Ensemble production robs Shakespeare's tragedy of some of its power.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:37AMLamplighters polishes its Pinafore so carefully that now it is the operetta show to see.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:45AMRon Campbell as Don Quixote at Marin Shakes makes us believe in impossible dreams.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:45AMSoren Oliver's new play, 'Demetrius Unbound,' follows a character from 'Midsummer Night's Dream' 20 years later; it plays at Berkeley through Aug. 22.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:43AMThe Gilbert and Sullivan classic is delightful in the hands of a terrific Lamplighters cast; the production plays in Mountain View, San Francisco and Livermore through Aug. 23.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:43AMCentral Works remakes Moby-Dick as a musical about radical conservationists in the 1970s.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:08AMThe Bay Area Playwrights Festival is a play-development pillar of a region known as a new-work hub.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:25AMCal Shakes goes back to the Golden Age of Spanish drama with Life Is a Dream.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:21AMAnna Deavere Smith's latest show doesn't just report on the school-to-prison pipeline for underserved youth in this country--it puts the audience on the spot to work toward solutions.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:17PMMegan Trout and Mark Jackson play two closely intertwined people living three different lives.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:11PMMary Poppins descends upon Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:11PMWoodminster Summer Musicals opens season with classic play drawn from P.L. Travers' books and Disney's movie
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:29PMMarin Shakes’s Cymbeline is a madcap hodgepodge — and a musical.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:18PMSteven Anthony Jones plays Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:18PMThe San Francisco Mime Troupe makes musical comedy out of grim police violence.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:18PMLivermore Shakes's Sense and Sensibility captures Jane Austen's wry humor.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:04PMSF Shakes takes Romeo and Juliet out for a walk in the park.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:04PMThe Jane Austen novel gets a strong adaptation in Livermore Shakes' new digs at Wente Vineyards
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:02PMThe Marsh is crowdfunding for a year of free performances of Brian Copeland's monologue about suicidal depression.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:07PMActors Ensemble reshuffles the Henry IV plays with six female Falstaffs.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:55AMLisa D'Amour's dark comedy gnaws at the unease lurking beneath suburban life.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:55AMNew Caryl Churchill play breaks in ACT's shiny new Strand Theater.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:55AMThe traveling San Francisco Shakespeare Festival production plays in Livermore, Cupertino, Redwood City and San Francisco
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:57PMTarell Alvin McCraney is back with a heartbreaking coming-of-age drama at Marin Theatre Company.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:30AMThe play about ruthless political campaign, from, Beau Willimon, the writer who created 'House of Cards,' runs in Point Richmond through June 27.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:21AMFarragut North wallows deep in the muck of political campaigns.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:34AMI give a few recommendations of plays and musicals not to miss this summer.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:01PMPlaywright Luis Alfaro returns to Magic Theatre with the start of an epic American trilogy.
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