187 stories by "Karen D'Souza"
Idina Menzel returns to Bay Area to star in Broadway hit 'If/Then.'
Ting, considered a champion of new and innovative theater, takes over as Cal Shakes artistic director Nov. 1; he was previously associate artistic director at Long Wharf Theatre in Connectic…
The Broadway star and songstress brings her new Broadway musical to Bay Area in November.
The Scottish play haunts the redwoods, although the company will need to find a new home after this season.
The new solo show at Berkeley Rep addresses crises in race, justice and education, then challenges audience to do something about it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca's challenging classic is presented in a pared-down production that is compelling at times, confusing at others.
Shotgun Players is reviving Caryl Churchill's time-traveling classic through Aug. 2.
The musical, adapted from a children's novel about a resourceful girl coping with a cruel world, plays at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre through Aug. 15
Compelling TheatreWorks staging can't quite mask new play's faults as it intertwines two loves stories around a notorious 1911 New York City garment district blaze.
The Oscar-winning actress will play Lady Macbeth, one of Shakespeare's most unforgettable characters, in a production opening in February 2016.
From 'Nurse Jackie' to her groundbreaking stage performances; the actress and writer is all about finding solutions to our most pressing problems.
Echo Brown's 'Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters' tackles race, sex and income inequality with a no-holds-barred autobiographical approach.
Berkeley's Aurora Theatre serves up a biting satire on middle-class values in the explosive comedy playing through July 19 in Berkeley.
A cutting-edge tale of love and technology.
The musical based on the creepy and kooky Charles Addams characters has a few, um, dead spots, but a talented cast mines the material for all it's worth.
San Jose strikes deal to have San Jose State University run the 538-seat venue, which has been dark since San Jose Rep closed last year.
'Love and Information' ushers in new era for ACT, is its the latest Bay Area company to open more intimate venues aimed at different kinds of entertainment.
The Noel Coward comedy about two women on vacation from their marriages is a hoot, but not as hilarious as it should be.
Shakespeare's gender-bending comedy gets a mediocre staging from a talented cast that delivers too few winning comedic moments and fails to generate much romantic impact.
The Stephen Sondheim romantic musical lags in spots, but a capable American Conservatory Theaterb cast captures of enough of the composer's magic. The play runs through June 21.
Responding to a domestic abuse case she felt was a political hatchet job, Eliana Lopez has developed a solo show to tell her side of the story.
From 'Pericles' to 'Guys and Dolls,' the play's the thing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015. Here are our top 5 picks.
Berkeley Rep hosts the British door-slamming comedy through June 21.
Sitting still and being a silent audience member just isn't in the preschool DNA, and maybe that's as it should be.
Lanford Wilson's play focuses on an eccentric widow and her troubled family, but fails to really connect with the audience.
