529 stories by "Lily Janiak"
Aleshea Harris' revenge Western emerges from our zeitgeisty concerns and tensions, yet feels as old as humanity.Â
There are so many war fronts and stratagems in Pierre Carlet De Marivaux's 1732 dramedy that a battle map wouldn't be out of order.Â
"Guys and Dolls," "The 39 Steps" and "Evita" are among the recognizable titles in the Union Square company's next season.
With Mona Pirnot's West Coast premiere, you'll never look at workplace monitoring the same way again.
American Conservatory Theater's next season contains six shows, in contrast to this year's five and a pre-pandemic seven.
Bay Area theater director Mina Morita recently received a $25,000 "mid-career" grant. Now she helms "English," about Iranian TOEFL students, at Berkeley Rep.
Monica White Ndounou's production at Marines' Memorial Theatre in S.F. highlights the difference between not listening as a character and as an actor.
Cinnabar Theater, Crowded Fire Theater, Cutting Ball Theater and others offer testaments to the joys of small theater.
Kathryn Keats' solo show about her real-life captivity is testament to the messy, always in-progress act of survival.Â
Susi Damilano's cast rounds up several of Bay Area comedy's usual suspects and gives them a welcome platform to mug, vamp and slay.Â
How can video games improve story and character? With Bay Area playwrights and stage actors.
"We don't want to disturb our patron base by telling them that they'll have to share the space with other people. What I want to do is disturb the notion of disturbing," Oregon Shakespeare F…
Lauren Yee's play with music, which is directed by Chay Yew, features openhearted psychedelia, dreamy surf rock and ballads that sound like memories of summer days, most by Los Angeles band …
The local theater community rallied around Erin Merritt to ensure she could direct "Tea Party" by Gordon Dahlquist.
The trio used the sci-fi trilogy by Chinese author Cixin Liu as a jumping-off point but soon departed from their source material in "Sojourner ZY."
Director Catherine Castellanos signals that here, in a crumbling monastery in the Central Valley village of Grangeville, the outside world is a distant land.
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss' musical about the six wives of Henry VIII knows what it wants and knows how to get it.Â
Gusting winds twice stalled opening night of a new musical, by Lauren M. Gunderson, Bree Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan, about female Supreme Court trailblazers.
In American Conservatory Theater's West Coast premiere, S.F. native Christopher Chen sprinkles in clues and red herrings with the expert timing of a symphony conductor.
Other highlights coming to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts include "Ain't Too Proud" and "Mean Girls."
Has A.I. made the future for full-time human theater critics - about a dozen of us in the U.S. - bleaker still?
Playwright Cardid Svich trusts that her audiences can function in the world of metaphor and allusion.
"I decided I want to make the most Chris Chen play I could possibly make," Christopher Chen said of ACT's "The Headlands."
Santa Clara native Carla Pantoja has worked with the 40-year-old company for two decades as teacher, director and actor.
"Everest: An Immersive Experience" might be best thought of as immersive animated opera film rather than immersive opera.
