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Cast members of Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Joe Turner's Come and Gone feel the spirit (from left): Barry Shabaka Henley as Seth, Kim Staunton as Bertha, Don Guillory as Jeremy and Brent Je…
Norman Kern's soothing voice tells you what to do: "Sit back, let your ears become your eyes and enjoy our play." So begins celebrated Bay Area sound designer Kern's latest project: the audi…
The Bay Area's resident superstar, Rita Moreno, opens a new cabaret act at San Francisco's Rrazz Room on Wednesday, Nov. 5. But she was recently at the Rrazz Room as an audience member for h…
Meghann Reynolds and Jeff Horst croon "Embraceable You" in 42nd Street Moon's revival of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Girl Crazy at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco. Photos by Davi…
Some of the enthusiastic cast members of Berkeley Playhouse's The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) are (clockwise from top right) Nkechi, Alona Bach, Tom Darci and Niko Darci-Maher. Photo by Kevin B…
Steven Culp (right), Laurie Metcalf (center) and JoBeth Williams star in Jane Anderson's drama The Quality of Life at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Photos by Kevin Berne. Po…
Matt Weimer plays Dan, a gay man in the Bible Belt, who is forbidden from seeing his children after the death of his longtime partner in Jerry Metzker's drama His Heart Belongs to Me. Photo …
One of the great things about Bay Area theater is watching local actors grow into greatness. They may or may not strike off to find fortune and fame in New York or Los Angeles, or they may c…
Perhaps it's a sign that I'm old and have bad taste, but Disney's High School Musical 3: Senior Year kept reminding of my favorite bad movie musical of all time: Grease 2. You've got a story…
Monica Cortes Viharo (right) plays Jackie O., a prostitute at a crossroads, in Charles Pike's Ghost Train Coming, a Performers Under Stress production. Valerie Fachman plays The King, a sort…
Oh, so many things to watch in this YouTube world of ours. Let's get started with a tribute to the now-closed Broadway show [title of show], which had an incredibly devoted and active fan ba…
Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Yellowjackets, a drama about Berkeley High School's student newspaper, The Jacket, had some real-life consequences. Audiences raised more than $6,600 to help res…
COOL DISCOUNT TICKET OFFER FOR THEATER DOGS READERS! SEE BELOW! The Marsh is delving into theater of a whole new vintage these days. Best known as a breeding ground for great solo shows, The…
It's a Bay Area autumn weekend. The weather is gorgeous and you should be out in the world enjoying various entertainments. And entertainments are never more varied than they are in the Bay …
Clinton Leupp doesn't pretend to be a girl. He's a man in a dress with a drag alter-ego named Coco Peru. He's very much a man and very much Coco " two personalities for the price of one. Now…
A friend sent this to me today. It originally appeared on McSweeney's a few months ago, and if you know Facebook, you know how brilliant it is (bravo, Sarah Schmelling!): Hamlet (Facebook Ne…
Aldo Billingslea (left) is Harmond Wilks, C. Kelly Wright (center) is Harmond's wife, Mame, and Anthony J. Haney is Harmond's business partner, Roosevelt Hicks, in August Wilson's Radio Golf…
Spencer Evans (left) is the Mariachi and Erin Mei-Ling Stuart is Joey McGee in David Szlasa's My HOT Lobotmy at CounterPULSE. Photos by Katrina Rodabaugh. Â Last time out, theatrical inno…
Keep your eyes and ears open for Russ Lorenson's next show. If you care about quality cabaret " the elusive art that lives in a specific region where pop, jazz and theater intersect " you'll…
Earlier this week I attended the Theatre Bay Area Annual Conference, and amid much useful information about the state of local and national theater, and in between the networking and general…
Timothy Douglas is brining a sense of authenticity to his duties as director of Good Breeding, Robert O'Hara's wild adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia. The production, which features American…
Members of the Irish theater company Druid perform a double feature of John Millington Synge plays at Berkeley's Roda Theatre as part of the Cal Performances season. Photos courtesy of Druid…
Here's an inspiring story that comes from the folks at The Museum of Performance & Design in San Francisco, who recently came to the rescue of set and costume designer Sandra Woodall aft…
Three of the actresses playing the Mitchell Sisters, the three main characters of the new musical Rivets, are (from left) Molly Lewis, Erica Maier (the understudy for Shawn Creighton) and Mo…
C. Kelly Wright and Aldo Billingslea head a top-notch cast of Bay Area actors in the TheatreWorks production of August Wilson's final play, Radio Golf. Photo by David Allen August Wilson, ac…
