Flex Candice Jones San Francisco Playhouse The squeaks and stomps of tennies across maple, the grunts and grinds of girls blocking others bodies, and the sudden silence and swoosh of aiming and shooting for the basket fill the electric air as San Francisco Playhouse becomes a high school gym full of young women's dreams of a state, basketball championship and maybe … [Read more...] about Flex
The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?
The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia Edward Albee Shotgun Players Martin's life seems about as perfect as it can get. He has just received the architect world's highest award (the Pritzker); he has recently won a contract to design a $200 B Future City in the wheat fields of Kansas; and he has been married for twenty-two years to Stevie, a woman whom he admits, "We've … [Read more...] about The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?
Our Class
Our Class Tadeusz Slobodzianek, Adapted by Neman Allen Z Space and Arlekin Sitting in a semi-circle in front of a mammoth, back-wall chalk board, ten people -- obviously in the roles of young children -- nervously struggle to read lines from their books. They introduce themselves by what their parents do and what they one day hope to do for a living (e.g., … [Read more...] about Our Class
Macbeth
Macbeth William Shakespeare Modern Translation & New Version by Migdalia Cruz Magic Theatre, in partnership with Play On Shakespeare In a dark, dingy subterranean world where the sounds of New York's traffic and sirens shatter a steel and concrete atmosphere peppered sporadically by a passing subway's overhead lights, a kingdom of street-trained goons with … [Read more...] about Macbeth
Dial M for Murder
Dial M for Murder Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the Original by Frederick Knott City Lights Theater Company Packed with edge-of-your-seat suspense, more twists and turns than San Francisco's Lombard Street, and tons of intriguing clues scattered throughout, Dial M for Murder for over seventy years has been an audience favorite on stage, TV, and film. Combining … [Read more...] about Dial M for Murder
||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||
||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| Eisa Davis American Conservatory Theater, In Co-Production with Vineyard Theatre Company Four teenage girls spending their summer at a conservatory of music program in Berkeley create and share together music, friendship, tension, conflict, and compassion while also balancing the pressures of others' expectations, their own … [Read more...] about ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||
Gods and Monsters
Gods and Monsters Written and Adapted by Tom Mullen, Based on the Novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram New Conservatory Theatre Center Best known today for directing the pre-Code, horror films Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) but also director of twenty-plus other films of all genres (including the 1936 musical, Showboat), James … [Read more...] about Gods and Monsters
La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast)
La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast) Philip Glass, Based on the Film by Jean Cocteau Opera Parallèle Fantastically blurring live stage performance with cinematic screening where reality and surrealism blend into an evening of spectacular entertainment, Opera Parallèle presents Philip Glass' 1994 opera, La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast) while … [Read more...] about La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast)
Primary Trust
Primary Trust Eboni Booth TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Introducing himself as Kenneth, he also introduces us to his hometown, Cranberry, New York, "forty miles east of Rochester," taking us on a tour of the post office, two banks, a newly opened wine shop, on down past Main Street to "my favorite place on earth, Wally's" -- New York's oldest tiki hut bar with … [Read more...] about Primary Trust
Songs for a New World
Songs for a New World James Robert Brown (Music & Lyrics) Hillbarn Theatre & Conservatory With a cast of four whose stellar voices individually and collectively soar and a three-piece, on-stage band that stirs one's emotions to the core, the ground-breaking, 1995 song cycle by Jason Robert Brown, Songs for a New World, becomes incredibly current due both to … [Read more...] about Songs for a New World
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee William Finn (Music & Lyrics); Rachel Sheinkin (Book) Conceived by Rebecca Feldman; Additional Material by Jay Reiss Foothill Music Theatre Maybe few people still have a dictionary anywhere near their desk or on their home's bookshelf. Maybe nearly everyone now relies on Gmail, MSWord, Google search, or AI to … [Read more...] about The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
After Happy
After Happy Patricia Milton Central Works A last-minute, desperate search for a Pirate Queen for the annual Pirate Festival in a community where most residents live under blue-tarp tents after a destructive hurricane named Happy. A bribery deal in process in Liberia for a Louisiana, family oil company to buy a forest where indigenous people live in order to give … [Read more...] about After Happy
All My Sons
All My Sons Arthur Miller Berkeley Repertory Theatre The American Dream: That illusive goal that so many have sought to reach, so many sacrifices have been made ... often not for one's own self but for the next generation so the lives of children will be better. A Dream supposedly open to all, but in reality, mostly available at best to those whose skin is white. … [Read more...] about All My Sons
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity Levi Holloway American Conservatory Theater In Co-Production with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Center Theater Group & Shakespeare Theatre Company About to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Lou and and James suddenly make a move from Chicago to London, adjusting to new jobs in a new house in a new country -- a country where … [Read more...] about Paranormal Activity
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady Alan Jay Lerner (Book & Lyrics); Frederick Loewe (Music) The Pear Theatre One by one, staff and patrons of a local English pub, The Pear and Rose (established 1821) arrive -- some carrying an instrument like a violin or a flute, others handed as they enter a pipe or a hat, and all greeting each other with a nod or smile, clearly as friends. As the … [Read more...] about My Fair Lady
