763 stories by "Sam Hurwitt"
Despite some fine acting, the free Actors Ensemble production robs Shakespeare's tragedy of some of its power.
Shakespeare is a hard act to follow.
Ubuntu Theater Project takes theater to the auto shop.
Lamplighters polishes its Pinafore so carefully that now it is the operetta show to see.
Ron Campbell as Don Quixote at Marin Shakes makes us believe in impossible dreams.
Soren Oliver's new play, 'Demetrius Unbound,' follows a character from 'Midsummer Night's Dream' 20 years later; it plays at Berkeley through Aug. 22.
The Gilbert and Sullivan classic is delightful in the hands of a terrific Lamplighters cast; the production plays in Mountain View, San Francisco and Livermore through Aug. 23.
Central Works remakes Moby-Dick as a musical about radical conservationists in the 1970s.
The Bay Area Playwrights Festival is a play-development pillar of a region known as a new-work hub.
Watching The King and I in the 21st century.
Cal Shakes goes back to the Golden Age of Spanish drama with Life Is a Dream.
Anna Deavere Smith's latest show doesn't just report on the school-to-prison pipeline for underserved youth in this country--it puts the audience on the spot to work toward solutions.
Megan Trout and Mark Jackson play two closely intertwined people living three different lives.
Mary Poppins descends upon Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park.
Woodminster Summer Musicals opens season with classic play drawn from P.L. Travers' books and Disney's movie
Marin Shakes's Cymbeline is a madcap hodgepodge " and a musical.
Steven Anthony Jones plays Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe makes musical comedy out of grim police violence.
Livermore Shakes's Sense and Sensibility captures Jane Austen's wry humor.
SF Shakes takes Romeo and Juliet out for a walk in the park.
The Jane Austen novel gets a strong adaptation in Livermore Shakes' new digs at Wente Vineyards
The Marsh is crowdfunding for a year of free performances of Brian Copeland's monologue about suicidal depression.
Actors Ensemble reshuffles the Henry IV plays with six female Falstaffs.
Lisa D'Amour's dark comedy gnaws at the unease lurking beneath suburban life.
New Caryl Churchill play breaks in ACT's shiny new Strand Theater.
