Harrison David Rivers Evokes Lyrical Love & Loss by Barry David Horwitz At last a play that treats gay lovers like other lovers, exposing their virtues and faults. In "This Bitter Earth,…
John Douglas Thompson Occupies Elsinore, Poetically by Barry David Horwitz Hamlet presents a huge challenge to actors, directors, and designers: Shall we go with the full text? Shall we use …
Chanticleers Theatre's Two Elvises Rock the House by Barry David Horwitz In the rollicking comedy "Elvis Has Left the Building," Chanticleers Theatre features The Colonel, a blustering, self…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Magical Manhattan Musical by Barry David Horwitz At the top of "In the Heights," our guide to Washington Heights, Usnavi (Rajiv Vijayakumar), spreads good cheer and hope…
Christopher Chen Pulls Triggers on Marriage, Diplomacy by Barry David Horwitz Two mixed couples have their own yuppie views about Chinese versus U.S. honesty and dishonesty, which is subtly …
Matthew Lopez Reveals Fabulous, Righteous Queens by Barry David Horwitz You know how hard it is to make a living these days as an Elvis impersonator, right? Even if you work in a small dive …
Hershey Felder Plays the Master"and his Magical Music by Barry David Horwitz I would go anywhere anytime to see Hershey Felder's artistry as writer, actor, pianist, and music idea man extrao…
JC Lee Exposes Ambitious Achilles & Agonized Patroclus by Barry David Horwitz Meet two young men: One named A for Achilles and the other P for Patroclus. Looming behind them we see Homer…
Desdemona Chiang Imagines a New Arden in OakTown by Barry David Horwitz For Shakespeare's pastoral comedy "As You Like It," Director Desdemona Chiang has placed the evil Duke's Court in the …
Gunderson & Reddy Lavish Love on Immortal Henrietta Lacks by Barry David Horwitz TheatreFIRST has a World Premiere at Live Oak Theatre that you will talk about for weeks. "Hela: The Poet…
Del Shores Shows Queer Folk in Fagalicious Texas by Barry David Horwitz "Sordid Lives" has been a movie, but now it's live, onstage at NCTC, and you want to be there for the fun and for the …
Robin Lynn Rodriguez Shows What Yuppies Really Want by Barry David Horwitz It doesn't take much to trash the Yuppie Gentrifiers, near Maxwell Park, Oakland"or in S.F., or anywhere else, eith…
Alan Bennett's Short Story Brings Humor to Senior Sex Saga by Barry David Horwitz Alan Bennett's story "Smut," from the hand of a master of form, fiction, and fact, carries us through subtle…
Garry Graves Goes Subterranean, Seeking Strange Fungus by Barry David Horwitz What is Gary Graves' "Edward King" really about? What does the voluble Edward King (the vital John Patrick Moore…
Rajiv Josef Unearths Tortures that Haunt US by Barry David Horwitz Rajiv Josef has written a mind-boggling play that flows lyrically from a powerful writer, winning the 2016 Obie Award for B…
The Wooster Group Reignites Feminist Fireworks by Barry David Horwitz New York's experimental Wooster Group has brought us "The Town Hall Affair," a docu-drama with the emphasis on the Drama…
Robert Lepage Flies High in Search of Time Recaptured by Barry David Horwitz "Needles and Opium" bursts out of the sky, a spectacle of acrobatics, jazz, and human creativity. If you want to …
Jiehae Park Makes Murder Fun in Macbeth Mash-Up by Barry David Horwitz Every detail in Jiehae Park's "peerless" goes way Over the Top. The Barbie-Doll dressed Chinese American twin sisters, …
Lisa Kron Makes Healing Comedy of Herself, Mom, and Allergies by Barry David Horwitz When Lisa Kron, the writer of "Well," uses herself as a character called Lisa in her own play, the stakes…
Potterveld Challenges Us with Sex, Guilt, and Twins by Barry David Horwitz Around the four sided playing area, in a lovely Victorian living room in the Berkeley City Club, Central Works pres…
Lucas Hnath Strikes Again, Melding Mind and Body by Barry David Horwitz "Isaac's Eye" by Lucas Hnath is a wonder. You have to admire and love the Narrator/Actor (a sly Adam Niemann) who draw…
A Boy Learns to Dance, Coal Miners Learn to Strike! by Barry David Horwitz In 1981, Margaret Thatcher's Conservative British government announced a plan to close 23 coal-mines in Northern En…
Daisey Turns Tragic to Comic at BLAST Theater Festival by Barry David Horwitz Mike Daisey is the U.S.'s most powerful story-teller. He comes out and sits at a table in the spotlight in the d…
Shepard's Sexual Tragedy Is Riveting in Revival by D. Marc Capobianco Many theaters stage revivals of plays that have been performed in their earlier repertoire and proven enormously popular…
Michael McKeever Makes Theater Magic by Barry David Horwitz Watch that next step"it could be dangerous. Michael McKeever's play "Daniel's Husband" will alert you to unexpected perils, at New…