Something is intentionally askew about the opening scene of "Fairview," Jackie Sibblies Drury's blazingly inventive new play, which is now at Berkeley Rep after setting New York abuzz last s…
'Oppenheimer," Tom Morton-Smith's acclaimed play about "the father of the atomic bomb," has its American premiere courtesy of Rogue Machine Theatre.
The most gripping moments in "Oppenheimer," the sprawling drama by British playwright Tom Morton-Smith about the man dubbed "the father of the atomic bomb," are the brainstorming meetings of…
Bekah Brunstetter's "The Cake" returns to The Geffen Playhouse, a tasty confection to appeal to red and and blue state appetites alike.
Charles McNulty talks with Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera about starring in the Kenneth Lonergan play "The Waverly Gallery," now in previews on Broadway with Elaine May and Joan Allen. Hedges…
For Lucas Hedges, the first day of rehearsal is like the first day of the new school year. He was so keyed up before the company meet-and-greet for "The Waverly Gallery," the Kenneth Lonerga…
Playwright Bekah Brunstetter's "The Cake" was inspired by news reports about businesses that objected on religious grounds to providing their good and services to gay couples who were gettin…
'Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden': Playwright and director Stan Lai leads audiences on a nocturnal cultural journey at the Huntington's Chinese Garden.
It would be hard to find a more enchanting setting for a play than the Huntington's Chinese Garden in San Marino. This is the locale for playwright and director Stan Lai's "Nightwalk in the …
Hotel Modern returns to REDCAT with KAMP, a re-creation manipulated by Dutch visual and performing artists Pauline Kalker, Arléne Hoornweg and Herman Helle of the of the Auschwitz concentra…
In "The Great War," the Dutch theater company Hotel Modern simulated the reality of the World War I battlefield in all its muddy, body-mangled horror through the projection of toy soldiers a…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Gloria," a workplace comedy set in a toxic Manhattan magazine office, receives its West Coast premiere in an Echo Theater Company production
It's a given in a work by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that something startling will sooner or later occur that will have you rethinking everything you thought you understood about the play. In "A…
"The Heart of Rock & Roll," a new jukebox musical inspired by the songs of Huey Lewis and the News, receives its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe.
Even when Huey Lewis was new, he was retro. More old way than new wave, his band, Huey Lewis & the News, is as much a part of the 1980s as the movie "Back to the Future" (which memorably unl…
Geffen Playhouse presents the world premiere of Oscar-nominated screenwriter José Rivera's The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona"at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by Jo Bonney.
Jason Alexander directs "Native Garden," Karen ZacarÃas' comedy about neighbors disputing property lines, horticulture and difference.
Jocelyn Bioh's 'School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,' a tale about backbiting teenagers at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
The title of Jocelyn Bioh's "School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play," is an accurate description of this entertaining comedy, which transplants a familiar American scenario to a new c…
Anne Bogart directs Euripides' last play about a young, overconfident ruler who rejects the rowdy new religious sect that has swept into Greece.
The surviving Greek tragedies pose inordinate challenges to contemporary theater practitioners, but Euripides' "Bacchae," one of his most beloved works, may be the trickiest of all to stage.…
Review of Lynn Nottage's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Sweat," set in a factory turn in Pennsylvania, where economic fears are igniting racial tensions
The state of the nation play has a long tradition in Britain, where playwrights are encouraged to think of the theater as a public forum, a place to debate the issues of the day and track th…
When "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations," the Broadway-bound jukebox musical, is in motion, it's a force almost as irresistible as any of the powerhouse R&B band's great…
Review of "Ain't Too Proud," a jukebox musical about the lives of "The Temptations."