Julia Cho Grapples with the Unthinkable, Masterfully by Drew Lehman Sometimes a play just rings true. "Office Hour" by Julia Cho at Berkeley Rep delivers a fine story, first-rate actors, and…
Terrence McNally's Jazz Age Portrait Perfect for Now! by Cindi Stephan A stellar cast performs a magnificent Tony Award winning musical at just the right time. As the U.S. nears a breaking p…
Millennial Notes Bernard Shaw's Comedy Dissects Dirty Deals by Michael V. Rodriguez But what about the widowers and the widows? Who are they? What about the tenants and their children? Where…
Smith, May, Lo, & Frazier Invoke Inspiring Heroes by Barry David Horwitz There's a lot to like in "Between Us," the four short plays I saw on Sunday afternoon at Live Oak Park Theater. I…
Patricia Milton's Comedy Pits Southern Comforts v. Black Values  by Barry David Horwitz Central Works has scored again with their World Premiere #58. Director Gary Graves has burnished Pa…
CAL Choreographers Move Us Closer Together by Svea Vikander The stage has always been a place where gender can flow a bit more freely and in which collective desires take reign. In four indi…
John Kolvenbach Offers Antidote to Cynical Times by Jeremiah Wall On the way to see Magic Theatre's World Premiere of John Kolvenbach's "Reel to Reel," I  stopped  to listen to sound a…
Mary Zimmerman's Fairy Tale Tapestry Weaves Light and Dark by John Chakan Once upon a time… We all remember sitting under the covers, listening to Mom or Dad or Great Uncle Harry read us a…
A Spellbinding Journey, Unadulterated and Moving by Kim Waldron Ominous jazz music hints at danger, vaguely threatening figures creep in, bent over, shadowy, in a parade choreographed for me…
Kelsey Severson is a Northern California native, born and raised in the heart of wine country. She has been a San Franciscan for over six years and studies psychology at City College of San …
Alisa Hofmann is the Principal Designer of Design Set Match, Chapter President of the San Francisco Bay Area National Association of the Remodeling Industry, and a leader in Bible Study Fell…
Millennial Notes Steve Budd Looks Deeply at Love's Peculiarities by Gilad Barach In his innovative and unconventional show, "What They Said About Love," Steve Budd expresses the struggles an…
Millennial Notes Katz and Dietrich Deliver Hope in Quixotic Musical by Michael Jeong A greying man with a silvery vest, like armor worn by knights of old, gazes into the distance. He sings w…
Millennial Notes Tennessee Williams Springs to Life with Whelan and Ramirez by Tyler Jeffreys Ubuntu Theater Project's version of Tennessee Williams' 1947 classic "A Streetcar Named Desire" …
Lisa Ramirez Dazzles as Star-Crossed Blanche DuBois by Robert M. Gardner Tennessee Williams elicits emotions far beyond the daily lives of his working class characters in the 1940s French Qu…
Lucas Hnath's Dramedy Scales Shakespearean Heights by Barry David Horwitz "This is a man …" says the anxious man in suit and tie, pacing poolside, and pointing at a blond, muscled swimmer …
Cindi Stephan is a Bay Area native, photographer, and choir mom. She earned a BA in Dance Choreography and Performance from Wesleyan University and spent a semester in Ghana studying West Af…
George Bernard Shaw Explodes Middle Class Morality by Barry David Horwitz Bernard Shaw is back, and he's alive and hilarious at Aurora Theatre. Aurora's revival of Shaw's unique blend of bri…
Emily Colby is a soon to be graduate from UC Berkeley's French Studies department. Originally based in the San Francisco, she began exploring her interests in the creative and performing art…
Jill Vice's Solo Noir Reveals Murderous Motivation by Julie Dimas-Lockfeld Jill Vice's solo performance piece is a tongue-in-cheek riff on the film noir crime drama told from the perspective…
Tim Pinckney Enlists Millennials in AIDS Army by Barry David Horwitz Here, at last, we have a new play that melds the 80s with the present and shows how one man's struggle against AIDS conti…
Dominique Morisseau Is Sticking to the Union by Robert M. Gardner In bringing "Skeleton Crew" to the Marin Theatre stage, Dominique Morisseau gives us a raw look at the lives of four auto wo…
Millennial Notes Katie Rubin makes Spirituality Funny by Tyler Jeffreys "Why I Died, a Comedy!" takes us on the spiritual journey of director, comedian, writer, and actress Katie Rubin. Rubi…
Morris Bobrow's Witty Musical Revue Beats Tech by Wes Adrianson "Megabytes! The Musical" with its goofy rhymes and knee-slapping comedic style, mocks our dependence on technology and its com…
Millennial Notes Kenneth Jones Celebrates the Power of Books by Tyler Jeffreys In Kenneth Jones' play "Alabama Story," a true life controversy over a children's book springs to life, again, …