763 stories by "Sam Hurwitt"
The traveling San Francisco Shakespeare Festival production plays in Livermore, Cupertino, Redwood City and San Francisco
Tarell Alvin McCraney is back with a heartbreaking coming-of-age drama at Marin Theatre Company.
The play about ruthless political campaign, from, Beau Willimon, the writer who created 'House of Cards,' runs in Point Richmond through June 27.
Farragut North wallows deep in the muck of political campaigns.
I give a few recommendations of plays and musicals not to miss this summer.
Playwright Luis Alfaro returns to Magic Theatre with the start of an epic American trilogy.
Venezuelan actress Eliana López, wife of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, tells her side of the 2012 domestic violence scandal.
Cole Porter's delightful musical comedy, with its cavalcade of killer songs, gets a fabulous production in Walnut Creek through June 27.
If you want to believe a boy can fly, there are few better sites than a mountaintop.
Anything Goes has so many classic Cole Porter songs in it that it's a wonder it's not some greatest-hits musical revue.
Douglas Morrisson Theatre mounts the odd and challenging comedy through June 14.
The Skin of Our Teeth shows a wilder side of Thornton Wilder.
The surprise is not that someone made a musical out of Heathers. It's that it took so long.
Frederick Douglass meets Donald Rumsfeld in Andrew Saito's Mount Misery.
Swinging '60s update of Servant of Two Masters brings belly laughs to Berkeley Rep.
So an African-American jazz musician and an Iranian movie star walk into a bar...
Lauren Gunderson's revenge comedy Exit, Pursued by a Bear returns, this time in San Jose.
Lauren Gunderson's dark comedy about a wife exacting revenge on an abusive husband plays at City Lights Theater in San Jose through June 14.
Solo theater artist Echo Brown's lighthearted dating story packs a devastating wallop.
The San Francisco International Arts Festival is back in full swing.
We Players stage a bittersweet fairytale romance at the ruins of the Sutro Baths.
A new drama maps a young video game player's inability to find happiness outside the game console. It plays in Berkeley through June 7.
The westward migration, the video game, the stage play: The Oregon Trail
James Baldwin's first play, The Amen Corner, makes a surprisingly good case against religion.
The play about struggling and desperate real estate agents runs at Berkeley's Live Oak Theatre through May 24.
