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 Tracy Held Potter is a playwright and screenwriter based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. She is the Artistic Director of All Terrain Theater, Co-Founder of the 31 Plays in 31 Da…
Donal O'Kelly Wages War on War with Soldiers' Memories  by Tony Urgo Playwright Donal O'Kelly refuses to shy away from political debate. In fact, he barrels toward issues like a historian…
Jeff Dunn is a Hollywood-born composer and photography judge who's had careers as a National Park ranger, geology professor, IT project manager, and music critic for various publications. Hi…
The Wooster Group Reignites Feminist Fireworks by Barry David Horwitz New York's experimental Wooster Group has brought us "The Town Hall Affair," a docu-drama with the emphasis on the Drama…
Cynthia Wands Reaches for Wit and Whimsy by Rosa del Duca At the center of "The Lost Years" are secrets. The first is that teacher and poet Humphrey Bludgepot (a peppy Ben Knoll) is not exac…
Robert Lepage Flies High in Search of Time Recaptured by Barry David Horwitz "Needles and Opium" bursts out of the sky, a spectacle of acrobatics, jazz, and human creativity. If you want to …
Not Your Typical Pet, Not Your Typical Musical by Rosa del Duca Buzz (Benjamin Nguyen) really wants a pet, but instead of going to the animal shelter, he packs some gadgets into his little r…
Wendy MacLeod Exposes Depravity in the Insular Elite by Kevin Marley Have you ever felt a little tension around the holiday table? Imagine that tension on steroids. Add a dash of betrayal. I…
Philip Kan Gotanda Asks, "What Is an American?" by Sydney Roberts  "Sisters Matsumoto" by Philip Kan Gotanda tells a moving and heartwarming story that sheds light on the after effects of…
August Wilson Shows Why Black Traditions Matter by Irene Nelson I love a play full of conversation where words flow like poetry, like music. I love a play about regular working people. I lov…
Ingmar Bergman Streamlines Ibsen's Classic "A Doll's House" by Victor Cordell A house is not a home "Nora, you are first a wife and mother."Â "No, Torvald, I am first a human being."Â …
Christina Lazo's Musical Classic Delivers the Goods by Sydney Roberts The curtain is down at the Lesher Center of the Arts, and it reads "Rydell" in classic high school letterman font. It's …
Yussef El Guindi Raises the Stakes on Selling Out  by Susan Dunn Picture a movie that starts with a Thanksgiving dinner suddenly invaded by a blood-seeking terrorist who tortures Dad with…
Lisa Ramirez Traps Latina Torment in a Cage by Robert M. Gardner Ubuntu Theater Project's "To The Bone" by Lisa Ramirez shocks us with its immediacy. Writer and lead actor, Lisa Ramirez …
Bob Merrill's Bad Girl Goes Good by Kim Waldron Lovers of musicals rhapsodize over how song and dance transform stories into epic events with emotions larger than life. They delight in the e…
Al Letson's Rapid-Fire Memories Make Lives Matter by Kevin Marley Al Letson is forced to deal with generational poverty and racism, when he consents to teach writing in a Summer Sanctuar…
Paula Vogel, Jonathan Moscone Make a Magical Mystery Tour by Kim Waldron A fantasia with lots of farcical sex and laughs, "The Baltimore Waltz" ultimately leads us to harsh truth. Kindly, pl…
Shakespeare and Director Glenn Havlan Pull No Punches  by Kim Waldron Theater of Others' "Merchant of Venice" refuses to downplay the bigotry of Shakespeare's most appealing and sympathet…
Gilbert & Sullivan: "Someday My Prince Will Show Up in a Dress" Â by Jeremiah Wall If you have seen Topsy Turvy, the movie about Gilbert & Sullivan, Lyric Theatre's "Princess Ida,…
A Millennial's Notes Michael Frayn's Discombobulated Divas Dash around Stage by Tyler Jeffreys Welcome to the backstage shenanigans that every actor knows and fears. Michael Frayn's slapstic…
Michael Frayn Tickles the Underbelly of Theater by Victor Cordell Give farce a chance. Let's start by accepting that farce is not everyone's cup of tea. That said, farce comes in differe…
Toddlers Delighted, Engaged by One-of-a-Kind Bus Ride by Rosa del Duca With trepidation, I arrived at the Bay Area Children's Theatre in Oakland for a 10 A.M. performance of "The Wheels on t…
WE Players Make America Geat Again  by Buzz Goldberg A saxophonist up on a hillside, nearly camouflaged by the surrounding foliage, sounds a clarion call. A woman gathers a massive length…
Mia Chung Tracks Strangers in Strange Lands by Kim Waldron In "You for Me for You," Playwright Mia Chung and Director M. Graham Smith track two North Korean sisters who are separately fleein…
Patricia Milton Casts A Discerning Eye on Capital Punishment by D. Marc Capobianco The great paradox of the last year's election in California was the defeat of Proposition 62, which would h…
