Garson Kanin Predicts Trumpian Times by Robert M. Gardner Set Designer Jacqueline Scott has fashioned a spectacular, opulent, hotel suite with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the U.S. C…
Christopher Durang Makes Great Fun of U.S. Obsessions by Reilly Marston-Chakan "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" gives an extreme and hilarious twist to family drama. The play, which…
Helgi Tomasson Sets Petipa's Classic in Sumptuous Beauty by Pamela Feinsilber For a great night of theater, there's nothing like a classic ballet, at least when performed as well and as sump…
Stephen Adly Guirgis' Rollicking Rollercoaster of Sex & Addiction  by Joan-Kirsti Brennan In Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl describes an "existential vacuum": people "…
Sarah Kennedy Rediscovers Private Parts by Sweta Chawla Sarah Kennedy has an alter-ego: she's called Queen V; her funny, tenacious, and desperate "alter ego-gina." V has been waiting for…
Jonathan Larson's Renters Remain Compelling & Moving by Rosa del Duca "RENT" is one of those Broadway shows that has a life far beyond the stage. Ask anyone on the street, and they can p…
Austin Zumbro, Andrew Mondello Rock the Show by Nicholas Leither If art is a stuffy, elitist activity that costs a lot of money and produces a lot of sneers, you wouldn't know it watching Ba…
Harold Pinter's 'Common Man' Manipulated by Mom & Mafia by Barry David Horwitz "The Birthday Party" (1958), by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, is a scary "comedy of menace" because we …
Athol Fugard's Homage to Art and Friendship Inspires by Kim Waldron I couldn't stop staring at the marvelous room on the stage as I waited for the play to begin. The vividly painted green an…
Drew Lehman grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and attended plays at Long Wharf Theater, Yale Rep, the Schubert, and Goodspeed Opera House. Theater is an integral part of me. When I lived in…
Millennial Notes Nina Wise Makes Politics Omnipresent by Tyler Jeffreys In her solo show "What Just Happened?" Nina Wise develops her daily recollections into extraordinary political comment…
Maggie Lohmeyer is a Missouri native who was transplanted to the Bay in 2016. She currently manages the Waller Center in the Haight as a retreat and community center. Maggie loves cats, a lo…
Hershey Felder Plays Tchaikovsky, Masterfully by Barry David Horwitz Hershey Felder has come to Theatreworks to embody Tchaikovsky. When Felder, as Tchaikovsky, plays for the Opening Night o…
Millennial Notes Louie Anderson's Comedy Offers Hope, Love, Empathy by Vince Marie Cuison In his solo show "Dear Dad," comic Louie Anderson, a two-time Emmy Award winner, uses his unhappy ch…
John Sklute is a retired professor of English and Comparative Literature. Â A long time resident of San Francisco, he was raised in Brooklyn and received his graduate degrees from Indiana …
Katz and Dietrich Deliver a Timely & Rousing Musical by Robert M. Gardner In the opening scene of "Man of La Mancha," Miguel de Cervantes (striking Edward Hightower) transforms himself o…
Evelyn Arevalo is a Bay Area native, who is passionate about literature, social issues and international travel. You can find her walking aimlessly through museums, getting lost in medina's,…
Don Reed Re-Creates Characters from Oakland to UCLA by Barry David Horwitz When Don Reed flashes his wide, welcoming smile, the whole room lights up. Now that he's a well-known performer on …
Joan Kirsti-Brennan, a lifelong Bay Area resident, Joan teaches horseback riding and trains horses. She also works with the Terma Foundation, an international healthcare nonprofit. She…
Ira Hauptman Mixes Math with Mysticism by Barry David Horwitz The struggle between Indian spirituality and English stubbornness comes to an intimate and exciting revelation, reflecting the P…
 Michael Vincent Rodriguez was born and adopted in San Francisco. He spent his formative years in Vacaville, California. An avid observer of the world around him, he found his academic f…
Director Bruce Coughran Invites Us to Pity Genius by Svea Vikander and Edward Boyda "Partition" is not a play about math. Director Bruce Coughran has made mathematics into a language and a b…
Diane Barnes Journeys from Doctor to Actor by Barry David Horwitz In "My Stroke of Luck," Diane Barnes M.D., learns how to deal with human suffering. She learns compassion. Rather than a tal…
Brian Copeland: A Genuine Christmas Genius by Barry David Horwitz Everyone knows that Brian Copeland, famed for his "Not a Genuine Black Man" solo show that has toured the country and played…
James Carpenter Shows Scrooge Taxing Himself! by Monica Fernandez As San Franciscans talk more about mindfulness, "A Christmas Carol" comes to A.C.T. to remind us about Time and Ghosts a…