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Exciting 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' rocks history hard at SF Playhouse...
"Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson", while rocking hard, takes its history seriously. Using rock and roll, off-the-wall humor, anachronisms and theatrical mayhem, Alex Timbers' award winning script has a...
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Do It Live Productions gives us 'Phaedra's Love': young, gifted, and whack...
Sarah Kane, author of "Phaedra's Love", was a leading practitioner of "in-yer-face" theatre. That is a style of theatre, prominent in the 1990's, which intentionally tries to be vulgar...
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Central Works takes us on crusade with 'Richard The First' (Photos)
Of all the Kings of England, Richard The Lionheart (one of the very few English monarchs known to posterity by a title rather than a number), is among the most intriguing. He was known as Couer de...
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Strindberg gets his due with Cutting Ball's production of 'The Chamber Plays'...
August Strindberg (1849-1912), along with his contemporary nordic countryman, Henrik Ibsen, is often cited as a founder of modern theatre. No survey of theatre history would be complete without a...
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Magic Theatre's 'Another Way Home': Camp Kickapoo lacks kick (Photos)
"Another Way Home", Anna Ziegler sets out to tell the story of an upper west side Jewish family in distress. Father Philip has been avoiding home life by becoming a workaholic. Mother Lillian, a...
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Here come the holidays (Photos)
Christmas time is here, by golly! It's Dec. 6, time to get some Holiday Spirit, but have you had enough of the usual Christmas Carol? Not nuts for The Nutcracker? Would you rather not endure another...
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Boxcar Theatre: 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' dazzles and touches
("Hedwig and The Angry Inch" plays at Boxcar Theatre from December 5 through February 11.)"How did some slip of a girly boy from communist East Berlin become the internationally ignored song stylist...
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'Bell, Book, and Candle' at SF Playhouse is charmingly frivolous (Photos)
("Bell, Book, and Candle" plays at San Francisco Playhouse from December 8 through January 19.)Gillian Holroyd is a witch. A young, beautiful, sexy witch. And she's bored with her humdrum gang of...
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Jeff Garrett's one man 'Christmas Carol' at Boxcar Theatre is something special
("The Haunting of Ebenezer" plays at The Boxcar Theatre Studios on Hyde Street, December 12 through 30.)Director Peter Ruocco and actor Jeff Garrett have accomplished something wonderful with "The...
View Article'Woyzeck' succeeds marvelously at Shotgun Players (Photos)
("Woyzeck" plays at The Ashby Stage in Berkeley from November 29 through January 13.)Although written 175 years ago, and unfinished when the author died, Georg Buchner's "Woyzeck" is considered a...
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A highly subjective reflection on the best of Bay area theatre for 2012
Like so many others, I have compiled a 10 Best List for my 2012 theatre going. It is something I feel I should do. It comes with the critical territory. But it is both a pleasure and a pain. It...
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Christopher Durang gives us torture as farce at Custommade Theatre
(“Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them” plays at the Custommade Theatre in San Francisco from January 11 through February 10.)Christopher Durang ascended to comedic eminence in the 1980s...
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Review of 'The Witch House' at The Garage in San Francisco
("The Witch House" plays at The Garage in San Francisco from January 16 through January 27.)Morgan Bassichis's new play, "The Witch House", premiering at The Garage, seems to be two...
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The Edwardian Ball: in SF or LA, this is where we go to become haunted (Photos)
(As of February 1, it has been announced that the 2013 Los Angeles edition of the Edwardian Ball will be in Hollywood at The Fonda Theatre on February 23. For further information click here.)On...
View Article'Waiting for Godot' at Marin Theatre Company is engaging and funny (Photos)
("Waiting for Godot" plays at Marin Theatre Company from January 24 through February 17.)Arguably, the three most influential plays ever written are Sophocles' "Oedipus", Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and...
View ArticleReview: 'Motherf**ker With The Hat" at SF Playhouse (Photos)
("Motherf**ker With The Hat" plays at the San Francisco Playhouse from January 29 through March 16.)Stephen Adly Guirgis is an over-the-top playwright whose work flails about in every direction, often...
View ArticleReview: 'A Delicate Balance' at Actors Theatre of San Francisco (Photos)
("A Delicate Balance" plays at the Actors Theatre of San Francisco from January 8 through March 16.)Edward Albee knows how to observe people of a certain class. In "A Delicate Balance" he puts a...
View ArticleReview: 'Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor' at Central Works in Berkeley...
("Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor" plays at Central Works February 23 through March 30.)Central Works is one of the most artistically ambitious theatre companies in the Bay area, completely devoted...
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Review: 'The Lisbon Traviata' at New Conservatory Theatre Center
("The Lisbon Traviata" plays at the New Conservatory Theatre Center from February 22 through March 24, 2013).Terrence McNally is certainly one of America's premiere gay playwrights, and it is no...
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Wily West and Playwrights' Center of San Francisco present Sheherezade 13
(Sheherezade 13 will play April 12 through 27 at The Exit Theatre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday Nights)This month, Bay area audiences, thanks to Wily West Productions and the Playwrights’ Center of...
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