Pictures from Home Sharr White Marin Theatre There is that box in your closet that you know is there but have not opened in years -- a box crammed with family photos and a history of beach, holiday, dress-up, and back-yard poses. What memories lie there ready to reveal stories you have forgotten or relationships you have not resolved? How much reality is actually … [Read more...] about Pictures from Home
West Coast Premiere
The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady
The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady Stephen Garvey 3Below Theatres & Cafe, Guggenheim Entertainment, Producer In the yesteryear era of 1974's big-flowered skirts, psychedelic-striped bellbottoms, and paisley patterns gone wild, Arden Amusement Park is set to open amidst a major foul-up: Two rival, family-member bands have both been … [Read more...] about The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady
The Monsters
The Monsters Ngozi Anyanwu Berkeley Repertory Theater, in a Co-Production with La Jolla Playhouse In an octagonal space called the Cage, a bare-chested, bare-foot fighter with rippled muscles kicks, jabs, lands punches, and overcomes an unseen foe. The reigning MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) champion returns to a fan-empty locker room sans any sign of victory, looking … [Read more...] about The Monsters
Flex
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
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
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
Hangmen
Hangmen Martin McDonagh San Jose Stage Company Take your seat; fasten your seatbelt; and prepare for another dark comedy, rollercoaster ride on the Martin McDonagh Express, once again available for a sinister, laugh-filled ride as terrifically and terrifyingly staged by San Jose Stage Company where audiences have howled and cringed in equal measures five times in the … [Read more...] about Hangmen
Bees & Honey
Bees & Honey Guadalís Del Carmen Marin Theatre Company “Love me as I love you, Give me your love beyond measure, Find me like a bee to a honeycomb, Long live the honey of my life!” Inspired by this chorus from “Como Abeja al Panal” (“Like a Bee to a Honeycomb”) by the Latin song writer Juan Luis Guerra, Guadalís Del Carmen has penned a sweet-and-sour, … [Read more...] about Bees & Honey
The Confession of Lily Dare
The Confessions of Lily Dare Charles Busch New Conservatory Theatre Center As two old friends reminisce before a grave whose tombstone they describe as alabaster white due to regular cleanings of baking soda mixed with Jack Daniels whiskey, one notes lovingly and admiringly of the grave’s occupant, “She wouldn’t let a geezer squeeze her tits for less than a twenty.” … [Read more...] about The Confession of Lily Dare
Where Did We Sit on the Bus?
Where Did We Sit on the Bus? Brian Quijada (Book and Music); Satya Chávez (Additional Compositions) Marin Theatre Company When he was in the third grade, Brian Quijada sat in a classroom during a lesson about Rosa Parks contemplating the bus where she took her seat. In the front, he heard, was where the whites normally sat; in the back were the Blacks. Brown-skinned, … [Read more...] about Where Did We Sit on the Bus?
Locusts Have No King
Locusts Have No King Julian Jiménez New Conservatory Theatre Center Jonathan and Marcus are in final prep for a dinner party with their neighbors, Lucas and Matthew. All four live in the same building and work in the same profession for the same institution. All are also in the closet at work and pretty much everywhere else except in the confines of the building … [Read more...] about Locusts Have No King
English
English Sanaz Toossi Berkeley Repertory Theatre As an adult who is attempting to learn another language later in life, I know firsthand how the experience can be both exciting and tormenting, with my altering within minutes between feeling proud of all I know and stupid for all that I still do not. But like most Americans born here, I am not learning another language … [Read more...] about English
The Headlands
The Headlands Christopher Chen American Conservatory Theater There are so many reasons to get your ticket today to see the West Coast premiere of Christopher Chen’s The Headlands at American Conservatory Theater before the last curtain on March 5: For anyone who lives in or near San Francisco, the play is like a SF love fest, featuring some of the most … [Read more...] about The Headlands
In Every Generation
In Every Generation Ali Viterbi TheatreWorks Silicon Valley During the Jewish, Passover Seder, there is a section recounting all the blessings and miracles the Israelites have received; and after each is recited, those gathered around the festival table say, “Dayenu,” “It would have been enough.” In Ali Viterbi’s 2022-premiering play In Every Generationtime travels … [Read more...] about In Every Generation
Sanctuary City
Sanctuary City Martyna Majok Berkeley Repertory Theatre, in Association with Arena Stage Two high school seniors each are seeking sanctuary from a life that fate and family have unfortunately gifted them. B (as in Boy) arrived in this country ten years prior and is now here illegally because his mom overstayed her visa – a mom who now has vowed to leave him and go … [Read more...] about Sanctuary City
