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La Cage Aux Folles
Theatre Rhinoceros is to be commended for undertaking the production of a show that normally is scene on vastly bigger stages and with much larger casts. There is indeed much to enjoy in this intimate visit to “La Cage Aux Folles.”
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Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
Now in a fantastically imagined, directed, and cast production at San Francisco Playhouse, Kate Hamill’s ‘Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really/ is an entertaining revamp of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” retaining the required blood and horror while also over-flowing with bitingly sharp wit, humor, and irony.
In the Heights
South Bay Musical Theatre has boldly decided to celebrate the Semiquincentennial of the U.S. with a joyful, exuberant, and thoroughly patriotic production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008-premiering and multiple Tony-Award-winning “In the Heights.”
Shakespeare Over My Shoulder
With a stellar cast that the Bard (or Bards) would die for and under the playwright’s own watchful and astute eye as director (as well as with his tongue-in-cheek impulses), “Shakespeare Over My Shoulder” is a play “such as dreams are made of.”
Pictures from Home
Marin Theatre’s “Pictures from Home” becomes for us as audience an album full of possible rich insights about our own family messiness and a confirmation of the love we feel for people that we may not altogether like or understand one hundred per cent of the time.
The Play That Goes Wrong
For anyone who has a high tolerance for physical slapstick taken to the extreme or for anyone who has not had a good laugh lately, Hillbarn’s “The Play That Goes Wrong” is a sure-fire bet for an evening of fun that will be long remembered.
