Tom Swift Soars with Awesome Actors, Rapid Repartee by Barry David Horwitz Tom Swift's striking new play at TheatreFirst, "A Marriage," leaps off the screen and into our hearts"with daring i…
Armistead Maupin's S.F. Tales Come Home as Musical  by Patricia L. Morin Armistead Maupin's story of newcomers and old-timers in 70s San Francisco was transformed into a musical in 20…
Neil LaBute Parallels 9/11 Attack & Lovers' Psychodrama by Patricia L. Morin "The Mercy Seat," under the creative direction of Allie Bailey at Los Altos Stage Company, cleverly exposes a…
Jeanne Sakata Celebrates an American Hero by Barry David Horwitz In Jeanne Sakata's moving "Hold These Truths," the incomparable Jomar Tagatac takes us into Gordon Hirabayashi's mind when he…
Millennial Notes Jason Robert Brown Sets Male & Female Flaws to Music  by Ian Waters Have you ever reflected on a tragic event in your life, and asked where it all went wrong? …
Kathleen Collins, Dawn L. Troupe Summon Healing Spirits  by Philippa Kelly On Sunday night I saw the Oakland Theater Project's "Begin the Beguine," a drive-in experience in the carpark of…
Millennial Notes Lynne Alvarez Asks Youth to Fight Colorism & Privilege by Evelyn Arevalo In "Esperanza Rising" at Teatro Visión, playwright Lynne Alvarez shows how racism comes from …
John Fisher's Idyllic Bike Trip to Palo Alto Turns Serious by Robert M. Gardner & Barry David Horwitz In "The Farm," Fisher's romantic bicycle trip to the sun-drenched Stanford campus re…
Denmo Ibrahim Explores an Immigrant Family's Alienation by Patricia L. Morin Marin Theatre Company and Storykrapht have created an avant-garde story form in both real time and on film, with …
Ava Roy's Spiritual Tour Refreshes Souls, Outdoors by Barry David Horwitz We Players has provided the perfect cure to Pandemic Blues: Take a hike in San Francisco's McLaren Park; enjoy the m…
Mark St. Germain's Dr. Ruth: Refugee, Sniper, Sex Guru by Patricia L. Morin Cinnabar Theater introduces us to Dr. Ruth, a lively, four-foot-seven, 69-year-old, matronly immigrant woman who b…
Millennial Notes Sholem Asch's Shocker Exposes Father, Boss, Brothel by Ian Waters Consider a man so fearful of God that he attempts to inscribe the same fear into women under his control"hi…
Rivas & Shokri Transcend Texts, Welcome East & West by Robert M. Gardner Around the Bay, the Pandemic has curtailed our favorite pastime"eating out at restaurants from Persian to Mex…
Ariel Craft Conjures a Wonderland of Prophetic Phantoms by Patricia L. Morin Cutting Ball Theater"with Bay Area Theatre Cypher and Mugwumpin"have filmed an impressive paranormal fairy tale, …
Lisa Peterson Opens the Door to Six Actors' Creative Process by Lynne Stevens Virginia Woolf is very good at describing what it's like to be alive and remembering fleeting moments. Lisa …
Marco Ramirez Exposes Perils of Black Sports Heroes by Robert M. Gardner & Barry David Horwitz Jay "The Sport" Jackson is a hero. He knows it, everyone knows it. Khris Davis plays the ro…
Blank & Jensen Rejuvenate Health Workers' Gifts by Patricia L. Morin "The Line" is a heartache to watch. This beautifully crafted docu-drama by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen shows ac…
Aguirre, Lo, Ramirez Celebrate Power of Huelga"Strike! by Patricia L. Morin TheatreFirst's audio docu-drama "More Than Grapes" captures the plight of thousands of abused grape pickers from 1…
Erika Dickerson-Despenza's Poetry Brings Beauty to Disaster by Robert M. Gardner & Barry David Horwitz The New York Public Theater is offering a world premiere audio play, "Shadow/Land,"…
Lisa Ramirez Thrills with a Hundred Years of Disasters by Barry David Horwitz April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull root…
Lydia R. Diamond Refocuses US on Poverty & Racism by Patricia L. Morin & Barry David Horwitz In Lydia R. Diamond's audio-drama of Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), …
Alice Childress Spotlights African American Stereotypes by Barry David Horwitz In Alice Childress's 1957 play, "Trouble in Mind," two titanic figures confront each other at a rehearsal of an…
Lasiter & Barnaba Light the Ring of Fire  by Robert M. Gardner The first words of Johnny Cash's last recorded song, "I hurt myself today," still haunt me. Like other songs in "My Name…
Jan Probst Reveals Marital Truths in Lock-Down by Patricia L. Morin Phoenix Theatre's "Bird on a Tree Branch" magnifies the psychological fallout from holding long-hidden secrets in a patria…
Erika Dickerson-Despenza Chronicles A Black Girl's Trauma by Patricia L. Morin SF Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre unfold disquieting truths in Erika Dickerson-Despenza's intense pla…