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Opened May 20, 2009 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Danny Scheie solidifies his reputation as one of the Bay Area's best, most original actors as the title character in Amy Freed's You, Nero o…
The touring cast of Monty Python's Spamalot. Photo by Joan Marcus If you know about the Knights of the Round Table, who dance when'er they're able, then you probably already know that the Mo…
I've written before about Bay Area actors whose names, just by appearing on a cast list in a program, excite certain expectations and delights. Danny Scheie (at right, photo by Henry DiRocco…
Opened May 13, 2009 at the American Conservatory Theater Rachel Ticotin (left) is Doña Milla, Lela Loren (center) is Flora and Robert Beltran is Don Fermin in the American Conservatory Th…
I wrote a story for today's San Francisco Chronicle about the first collaboration between Word for Word and Theatre Rhinoceros. The two venerable companies are producing Three on a Party, an…
Opened May 11, 2009 at The Boxcar Playhouse Laura Jane Coles offers a sponge bath to a young man she found on the beach played by Eric Kerr in Caridad Svich's Wreckage, a Crowded Fire Theate…
I wrote a story for the San Francisco Chronicle about Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao becoming the Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts play F…
Maureen McVerry is Wildcat Jackson and Rob Hatzenbeller is Joe Dynamite in the 42nd Stret Moon production of the 1960s musical Wildcat. Not much growl left in `Wildcat'«« There's a mom…
Opened May 9, 2009 at SF Playhouse Jackson Davis and Amy Resnick are Dwight and Jean, two lovers awash in a sea of cynicism, stationery and sentiment in Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone at…
It was a perfect Friday-night cultural double feature: opening night of Smuin Ballet's spring season at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and then a quick dash to the Rrazz Room in the Hot…
While most theater companies hunker down and attempt to get through this recession as best they can, others are taking bold steps. Crowded Fire has announced that for its next production, Wr…
Legendary performer Ben Vereen sang standards and songs from Broadway in his Rrazz Room show. Photos by Isak Tiner  Kick, kick, turn and SING! Ben Vereen does the cabaret thing««…
This is just too much fun not to share. With the passing of Bea Arthur, it's good to remember her musical roots. Oh, for the heyday of '70s variety shows! What producer these days would have…
Let's get one thing out of the way right now: Sam Harris is well aware of Adam Lambert. Harris, the big winner on the first-ever season of "Star Search" back in the '80s, has a gorgeous, sea…
Tony nominations came out today, and there are a couple of things that make me happy. Dolly Parton is a Tony nominee! [title of show] was not completely shout out! Some favorite actors " Jes…
Ian Walker (left) is J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, and Charles Evans is Gen. Leslie R. Groves in Carson Kreitzer's drama The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a product…
The cast of John Bisceglie's SF Follies hustles through the '70s ABBA style. The hit revue continues through April 26 at The Actors Theatre. The show may return in a new-and-improved form in…
Benjamin Pither (left), Glenn Kiser (center) and Harry Breaux are Midwestern men recruited to play French ladies in a late '20s pageant in Jordan Harrison's intriguing Act a Lady at the New …
Ask a group of San Francisco theater enthusiasts what they think about a show and you'll get more than an earful. That's what R.C. Staab found out " the hard way " when he held a reading of …
The cast of SF Playhouse's taut drama The Story includes, from left, Craig Marker, Ryan Peters, Kathryn Tkel and Halili Knox. Photos by Zabrina Tipton  Racial politics, lies, ambition an…
A man of character, Trevor Allen decided to put his character life behind him. Having detailed what it's really like to work as a costumed character in Disneyland in his popular solo show Wo…
Opened April 12, 2009, Magic Theatre  Ryun Yu as David, a New York investment banker, talks on the phone with his sister, Esther played by Angela Yin in the Magic Theatre's world-premier…
Spirits are blithe in Moon's `High Spirits'««« ½ What's the point of reviewing a show just a few days before it closes? Not much from a commercial point of view. But given the su…
EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 17 Mark Anderson Phillips is Jean the footman and Lauren Grace is Miss Julie, the title character in Mark Jackson's production of the Strindberg classic at Berkeley's Au…
The band GrooveLily (Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda and Gene Lewin, seen above in a photo by Leslie Lyons) has had to cancel its benefit concert for TheatreWorks that was scheduled for Frid…
