13 stories by "David Hammerbeck"
 James Carpenter and Ellen McLaughlin in ACT's production of Edward Albee's Seascape, January 30th 2019 at the Geary Theatre, San Francisco. Or so Nancy would have it, in the American Co…
There are few certainties in life. The sun will rise and set. Taxes will be paid. The current president will tweet inanities. And Cirque du Soleil will not fail to deliver the goods. Back un…
White water boating down the Grand Canyon sounds like a sensational summer trip, not a theatrical outing. However, ACT's production of Men On Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus, stages the wilderness …
You'd think that pretty much everything that could be said about the '60s has been already been put in print, on film, or staged. But you would be mistaken. Acid Test, written by Lynne Kaufm…
It's been almost fifty years since Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface. Those heady summer days of 1969"Woodstock, Vietnam, protests, Nixon, and the first human landing and walk on …
Apartheid and succulents might seem like odd bedfellows, but centuries of racial oppression and violence can make metaphors reverberate. Athol Fugard's 1980 three-character drama, A Lesson F…
Suzan-Lori Parks, one of the most original and creative voices in American theatre, likes to think big. Her latest work, Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts I, II, and III, the first part…
The infectious punk-pop sounds of The Go-Go's and the Renaissance poetry of Sir Philip Sidney come together in the new musical Head Over Heels, running at San Francisco's Curran Theatre thro…
What's an ethical person to do in the era of instant celebrity and a tweeting president? How can a good Irish Catholic girl from New Jersey, daughter of the titular South Bronx garbagema…
By now in their over 30-year history, Cirque du Soleil needs no introduction. Sui generis, they are the largest theatrical company in the world, combining circus traditions from around the g…
Sex, motorcycles, the Vietnam War, refugee camps, potty-mouthed moms and soul-bearing raps: these and much more make up Qui Nguyen's Vietgone, currently playing at American Conservatory Thea…
Throughout the adult life of the great Russian composer Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, he fixated on one idea: his homosexuality, how to closet it and how to compensate for it. Hershey Felder's …
What to do when guests bring the unwanted into your home? Especially when the unwanted is undefinable but very real and visceral, terrifying, yet unnamable. This is the terrain presented to …
