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Continuity
Shotgun Players’ current “Continuity” is at best mildly amusing with an over-reliance on stereotypical characters and a storyline that fails to engage an audience enough to really care what happens in the end.
Current “Best Bets”
Looking for a show to see soon? Here are Eddie’s recommendations for current must-see shows.
Other recent reviews
Becoming a Man
With a grippingly superb cast and a script that builds to a climax never to be forgotten, Z Space’s “Becoming a Man” is a must-see production that will change your life.
Doubt
This stunning, singularly memorable world premiere production by Opera Parallèle will soon be history after only one weekend. My sincere hope is that an opera that should be attractive to lovers of live theatre of all sorts — plays, musicals, and operas — will find many more companies across the country and globe ready to place “Doubt” high on their wish-list.
anthropology
anthropology Lauren Gunderson City Lights Theater Company In the heart of Silicon Valley where currently AI is all the buzz and the source of seemingly countless new start-ups and mounting wealth, how appropriate and timely for City Lights Theater Company to open the West Coast premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, her 2023 play about a distraught AI expert who creates…
The Lunchbox
With a cast full of Broadway and national-touring veterans of Indian heritage under the direction of Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown), Berkeley Rep’s “The Lunchbox” is a must-see of a new musical that already has the look, sound, and feel of a future Broadway hit.
Tosca
With three key principles that any opera company would envy to have in the starring roles of this oft-performed, much-beloved opera, West Bay is guaranteed to wow its audiences with a “Tosca” they will long remember.
