174 stories by "Sam Hurwitt, Correspondent"
A month after winning a Regional Theatre Tony Award, TheatreWorks opens 50th season with clever, heartfelt 'Language Archive.'
"Book of Mormon," the naught but sort of sweet musical from "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes to Broadway San Jose.
SF Shakes is performing Shakespeare's beloved comedy "As You Like It" at Bay Area parks, complete with songs from SF band the The Kilbanes.
Livermore Shakespeare Festival presents the Bard's bitter "Othello," set in this production during the Civil War.
Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe marks 60th anniversary touring Bay Area with another politically charged satire, "Treasure Island."
The musical "Once on The Island," playing in El Cerrito, has a split personality: pleasing songs but a disheartening tale of clashing cultures.
The Tony Award-winning Disney musical "Newsies," born from a cinematic flop, opens the season at Woodminster Summer Musicals in Oakland.
Several theater companies are dealing with temporary displacement for the next year or so due to construction work on a handful of Berkeley facilities. Live Oak Theatre is going to be closed…
Joan Didion's memoir and play, "The Year of Magical Thinking," gets a powerful Bay Area premiere at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre.
"Big," a musical version of the Tom Hanks movie about a boy who suddenly inherits a man's body, suffers from so-so tunes and creepiness factor.
Quantum Dragon Theatre's stage version of Ray Bradbury's chilling novel 'Fahrenheit 451' -- about a society where books are illegal -- plays in S.F.
Former ACT artistic director Carey Perloff debuts a new play that skewers the Bay Area's venture capitalism world at SF Playhouse.
Former American Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff is debuting a new play at SF Playhouse.
The groundbreaking musical 'Rent' has returned to SF, although it plays more like a retro nugget than an urgent look at struggling youth.
The Tony Award-winning musical "Once" gets its regional theater premiere via 42nd Street Moon through June 30 at the Gateway Theatre in S.F.
Magic Theatre powerfully revives Luis Luis Alfaro's "Oedipus el Rey," an adaptation of the Greek tragedy set in L.A.'s violent gang world.
Rajiv Joseph's "Archduke," playing TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, is a dark comedy that shows how the violent start to World War I could happen today.
Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' has been adapted for the stage and plays in Lafayette through June 22.
ACT's revival of Ionesco's absurdist comedy 'Rhinoceros' could not be a better fit for these maddening times; and it's a great production to boot.
Sarah Burgess' sharp satire "Kings" comically deconstructs Washington politics; it plays through June 22 at Shotgun Players.
Rachel Bublitz' hard-hitting play "Ripped" depicts a sexual encounter that ends very badly; it's playing at Z Space in San Francisco.
Theatre Rhinoceros presents "Action Hero," a new queer play by John Fisher about a movie star with secrets.
Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Midsummer Night's Dream" is all over the SF Bay Area, with 2 more productions about to open in Concord and San Jose.
Interactive theater troupe Idiot String presents the immersive "Port Stories," focusing on the East Bay community of Port Costa.
"Significant Other," a Broadway comedy getting its Bay Area debut at SF Playhouse, follow a gay man's hard-luck look for love.
