69 stories by "Richard Connema"
A Wonderful Mash up of Chekhovian Themes in Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and An Inventive Production of "A Winter's Tale"
1776 is as much a play as it is a musical. History is never sacrificed for a song and dance routine and, still, the music and dance is integrated. ... To say that the action of Sam Shepard's…
Aurora Theatre is presenting Amy Herzog's smart and finely written After the Revolution ... Marin Theatre is presenting probably the most popular play in America: David Lindsay-Abaire's Good…
TheatreWorks' Other Desert Cities is a passionately alive play inhabited by a flawless cast of fascinating characters ... Oregon Shakespeare director Christopher Liam Moore has staged [Lady …
Priscilla Queen of the Desert is a rollicking, sassy, upbeat musical that will make you feel young again (at least it did this oldster).
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is currently presenting a superb cast of two incomparable interpreters of Harold Pinter's notorious ambiguity, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, with Billy…
This production carries an implication of a grittier, more realistic vision ...
The Spanish Tragedy is an enormous drama with many speaking parts. Marin Shakespeare's director Lesley Currier has cut and reshaped the text expansively, combining characters and using some …
Seven actors walk onto a bare stage dressed in semi-grunge outfits. And so begins an enthralling presentation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
The Aurora Theatre Production of Neil Labute's three character play This Is How It Goes is clever, perverse, and appallingly, disturbingly realistic in its examination of race, racism and mi…
George Gershwin Alone is a delightful evening of familiar music, with Hershey Felder performing excerpts from a dozen or so of Gershwin's best-known works on piano: Porgy and Bess, American …
Oregon Shakespeare Festival is starting their 2013 season with a program of intriguing plays, ranging from modern day takes on The Taming of Shrew and King Lear to a glorified concert versio…
The black comedy is an alarming blend of frenzied comedy, grand melodrama, horrifying violence and the bleakest tragedy.
Both were well known in their day, when poets could make a living and thousands would read their poetry ... Leigh's masterful play satirizes the strains of marital strife and neighborly inte…
American Conservatory Theatre has brought back Tom Stoppard's 1990 masterpiece about sex, literature, epistemology, sex, landscaping, sex, the second law of thermodynamics and the enticingly…
This amazing production was too large to transport on a proscenium stage so it is being presented in the large stadium style on the drill court of the Armory Community Center.
Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright, renowned for his work for The New Yorker and a bestselling author, wrote this fictional play about the last days of legendary journalist Oriana Fallaci.
The two hour forty minute dance-drama brings back to stage the superb Priscilla Lopez with an outstanding cast of young supporting players mostly from New York.
Shotgun Players are presenting a triumphal production of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck adapted by Robert Wilson with sumptuous music by Tom Waits and mocking lyrics by Kathleen Brennan.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is presenting an astounding production of Mary Zimmerman's sensorial feast, The White Snake, through December 23rd.
Director Greg MacKellan has assembled some wonderful singer/actors to perform the appealing songs of Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner in this beautiful production.
Aurora Theatre, under the strong direction of Barbara Oliver has put together a program of four of Wilder's greatest shorter works for Wilder Times: Infancy (1962), Childhood (1962), The Hap…
42nd Street Moon launches its 20th season with a sharp production of Of Thee I Sing. The show was probably the most sophisticated musical of its time.
The Other Place is a new mystery by Sharr White, who also wrote the gripping Annapurna. The Magic Theatre is presenting the West Coast premiere with four splendid actors in an 80-minute prod…
A powerful production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart is currently being presented at the American Conservatory Theatre, in association with Arena Stage.
