Get Eddie’s recommendations for shows on stage now that you should be sure not to miss.
The Monsters
As both playwright and co-star of The Monsters, Ngozi Anyanwu has provided the audiences of Berkeley Repertory Theatre with a story celebrating sibling love that sizzles and soars — a Rep production that will leave those audiences with joy-filled hearts and a new appreciation for what beautiful really means.
The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?
While not a play that on the surface sounds like a great idea for a night on the town, Edward Albee’s The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? is a modern-day tragedy that deserves the same kind of audience respect and attraction we give a play equally difficult at times to watch such as Shakespeare’s Macbeth or Albee’s own Who’s Afraid of Virgina Wolfe? Shotgun Players ups the ante to a must-see with a production that excels in every respect possible.
Macbeth
In partnership with Play On Shakespeare, Magic Theatre opens Cruz’s gut-punching, gripping, yet still poetic Macbeth. The result is a stunning, surreal, and oft-startling world premiere of a modern adaptation by Migdalia Cruz, under the mighty and masterful direction of Liam Vincent.
Dial M for Murder
In the end, we are not surprised of who is the guilty party; but we are amazed at our own level of sweaty anticipation to see how it all ends. Even for those in the audience who may have seen one-to-many times Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, City Lights Theater Company and Jeffrey Hatch’s recent, stage adaptation is still loaded with surprises, suspense, and satisfaction
Gods and Monsters
With a stellar cast that grabs, shakes, and stirs our emotions from laughter to tears, NCTC’s Gods and Monsters is a must-see production that immediately seizes our curiosity, holds us in rapt attention, and leaves us realizing that while much has changed in the past near-seventy years, much is unfortunately the same for queers, Blacks, and immigrants in America.
Our Class
Norman Allen’s adaptation of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class is a timely must see not for enjoyment per se, but for an awakening of what is happening right now that is not that dissimilar to what happened in one of the darkest periods of all history a mere eighty-plus years ago on July 10, 1941, in Jedwabne, Poland when half the town — all Jewish — were murdered in a burning barn by the other half, their non-Jewish neighbors.
