MarÃa Irene Fornés' Absurd Comedy Probes Women's Fears  by Patricia L. Morin "Fefu and Her Friends" delicately weaves individual women's stories into themes to spotlight women's strug…
Yussef El Guindi Unveils Rampant Imperialism behind Tourism by Barry David Horwitz In a swank hotel in Cairo, a wealthy, anxious older couple from Wisconsin has hired a young Egyptian couple…
Lynn Nottage Extols Sisterhood for Independent Women by Patricia L. Morin In 1905 New York, Esther (dynamic Jeunée Simon), an independent businesswoman and talented seamstress, creates love…
Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes Links Addiction to U.S. Anxieties by Barry David Horwitz The title "Water by the Spoonful" comes from a doctor's advice on how to give a dehydrated child water"slowly…
Margy Kahn Touches Three Generations of Jewish History     by Patricia L. Morin Playwright Margy Kahn entices us to ask what price we place for collecting treasures from the pas…
Trey Anthony Unfolds Tale of Absent Mom, Angry Sisters by Barry David Horwitz How can a Black mother say, "I love you" to two daughters who believed she abandoned them in her native Jamaica …
Patricia Milton Wraps Women's Rights in Clever Mystery by Patricia L. Morin  Central Works' "Escape from the Asylum" returns us to the male-dominated Victorian era, to shine a powerfu…
Stew & Heidi Rodewald's Black "Youth" Takes Mystical Tour by Patricia L. Morin Director William Thomas Hodgson's "Passing Strange" follows a young Black man called "Youth" down a twisted…
Millennial Notes Robert Kelley Brings Magic to Paul Gordon's Musical by Evelyn Arevalo I remember spending days holed up in my room with Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as the novel unfo…
Dan Hoyle Transforms Himself Into Brace of Doubting Bros by Barry David Horwitz Dan Hoyle, master of a million disguises, brings his unique, multifaceted talent to face a serious problem. He…
Jane Martin's Modern Spin on "Three Sisters" Makes Us Laugh! by Lynne Stevens Manipulative TV actor Holly snags the lead role of Masha for herself in this modern take on Chekhov's "The Three…
Alyosha Zim Unfolds Exciting Jewish-Buddhist Enigma by Jordan Freed & Barry David Horwitz "Red Winged Blackbird" transcends a debate between Old World Judaism and New Age Buddhism. We me…
Michael Socrates Moran Grapples with Ruthless Autocrat by Jennifer Ann Charron I'm always drawn to Oakland Theater Project productions. The entire team typically overflows with talent and in…
Millennial Notes Jack Thorne's Complex Tale Features Stellar Cast & Fireworks by Jordan Freed I was three years old when the first Harry Potter book was published. I remember begging my …
Matthew Lopez Unfolds a Straight Man's Fears by Patricia L. Morin 6th Street Playhouse's "The Legend of Georgia McBride" highlights both the humorous and disheartening challenges for men in …
Jaclyn Backhaus Ridicules Male Heroes"Bring on the Gals! by Lynne Stevens Sarah Bernhardt did it playing Hamlet. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon did it to infiltrate an all-woman band in Some Lik…
Katori Hall Imagines King & a Mysterious Woman by Robert M. Gardner In "The Mountaintop," playwright Katori Hall's conversational dialogue makes us eager to hear more of the spirited int…
Will Arbery Builds Characters Who Embody Our Conflicts   by Patricia L. Morin "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" at SF Playhouse tells a unique story mixing right-wing Catholic college gr…
Jeanette Quick is an author of fiction, poetry, theater reviews, and thoughts on loose scraps of paper near her desk, and is working on her first novel. Her work has been published in …
Joanne Engelhardt is a San Jose State University journalism graduate who spent about seven years working at newspapers on the San Francisco Peninsula. Later, she wrote and edited emplo…
Amy Deng is an Electrical Engineering & Computer Science major at U.C. Berkeley and a lifelong lover of theater! She has always gone out of her way to search for theater opportunities…
John Logan, Avett Brothers Team Up for a Country Musical by Patricia L. Morin & Barry David Horwitz In their 2004 album "Mignonette," The Avett Brothers sing the fate of a sinking ship. …
Anthony Veneziale Leads Improv Riffs, Revives Our Lives by Barry David Horwitz "Freestyle Love Supreme" is a wonderful new kind of theater. After all, they have become a movement, a school, …
Itamar Moses' Book Binds Two Countries in Everyday Experiences  by Patricia L. Morin  On tour from New York, Broadway SF bring us "The Band's Visit," a welcome respite from Complic…
Millennial Notes Joel Coen Offers Beauty & Horror, but Diminishes Actors by Alex Stimmel Director Joel Coen's new movie The Tragedy of Macbeth takes a fresh yet often lackluster look at …