Playwright Luis Alfaro returns to Magic Theatre with the start of an epic American trilogy.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:50PMVenezuelan actress Eliana López, wife of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, tells her side of the 2012 domestic violence scandal.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:37AMCole Porter's delightful musical comedy, with its cavalcade of killer songs, gets a fabulous production in Walnut Creek through June 27.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:31AMIf you want to believe a boy can fly, there are few better sites than a mountaintop.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:19AMAnything Goes has so many classic Cole Porter songs in it that it’s a wonder it’s not some greatest-hits musical revue.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:12PMDouglas Morrisson Theatre mounts the odd and challenging comedy through June 14.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:11PMThe Skin of Our Teeth shows a wilder side of Thornton Wilder.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:28PMThe surprise is not that someone made a musical out of Heathers. It's that it took so long.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:28PMFrederick Douglass meets Donald Rumsfeld in Andrew Saito's Mount Misery.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:23PMSwinging '60s update of Servant of Two Masters brings belly laughs to Berkeley Rep.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:03PMSo an African-American jazz musician and an Iranian movie star walk into a bar...
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:01PMLauren Gunderson's revenge comedy Exit, Pursued by a Bear returns, this time in San Jose.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:37PMLauren Gunderson's dark comedy about a wife exacting revenge on an abusive husband plays at City Lights Theater in San Jose through June 14.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:21PMSolo theater artist Echo Brown's lighthearted dating story packs a devastating wallop.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:38PMThe San Francisco International Arts Festival is back in full swing.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:56PMWe Players stage a bittersweet fairytale romance at the ruins of the Sutro Baths.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:48PMA new drama maps a young video game player's inability to find happiness outside the game console. It plays in Berkeley through June 7.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:18PMThe westward migration, the video game, the stage play: The Oregon Trail
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:14PMJames Baldwin's first play, The Amen Corner, makes a surprisingly good case against religion.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:27AMThe play about struggling and desperate real estate agents runs at Berkeley's Live Oak Theatre through May 24.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:06PMTheatreFIRST revives a typically testosterone-fueled Mamet classic.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:53PMNew musical Max Understood brings us into the world of an autistic boy.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:48PMFrom a fool and a pack of puppets, two offbeat takes on Lear.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:51PMI find the idea of a powerful woman having to date someone more physically powerful than she is really regressive.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:02PMWord for Word converts Alice Munro's short stories to plays without changing a word.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:05PMI love the idea of Wonder Woman having all these different variants of her costume for different purposes.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:56AMImpact Theatre's Richard III is unusually slow for either the company or the play.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:43PMDirector Melissa Hillman's contemporary adaptation of the bloody Bard classic plays through April 5 at La Val's Subterranean in Berkeley
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:11PMThree messed-up daughters convene after their cruel mother's death in Enemies: Foreign and Domestic.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:26PMIn post-apocalyptic Northern California, The Simpsons becomes the stuff of myth.
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