Shakespeare Over My Shoulder Ted Lange African-American Shakespeare Company For acclaimed, award-winning playwright, director, actor, and educator, Ted Lange, it began almost sixty years ago while researching a possible role in Romeo and Juliet; it happened again in 1984 while at the Royal Academy for Dramatic Arts in London; and it continued occurring every few … [Read more...] about Shakespeare Over My Shoulder
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Moonchild
Moonchild Connor Lifson & K. Sid Zhang Stanford Theatre and Performance Studies (TAPS) "What are we except the stories we tell ourselves?" A little girl confined in a small space surrounded by white draping suddenly is visited by a fairy who beckons her to follow, leading Lyra into a supernatural domain and a journey full of wonder, excitement, and danger -- a … [Read more...] about Moonchild
Clouds from an Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days Shinichi Iova-Koga inkBoat "There is being. There is nonbeing. There is a not yet beginning to be nonbeing. There is a not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be nonbeing. Suddenly there is nonbeing." ~Chuang Tzu Has there ever been a time when humans during their short stay on earth did not wonder, … [Read more...] about Clouds from an Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days
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
||: 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 :||
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
Running After Shadows
Running After Shadows Vincent Terrell Durham City Lights Theater Company In the middle of his latest Instagram, live-stream "unboxing" as he practically is making love to his just-arrived garlic press and doing a one-man, conga line wearing his new, authentic, red, "America's Test Kitchen" apron, recent culinary convert Morgan Collins opens one more, unexpected … [Read more...] about Running After Shadows
How Shakespeare Saved My Life
How Shakespeare Saved My Life Jacob Ming-Trent Berkeley Repertory Theatre (in co-production with Folger Theatre and Red Bull Theater In her introductory remarks to the opening night's packed audience in Berkeley Rep's Peet's Theatre, Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer told us that given all the horrific things occurring currently in our country and world, being … [Read more...] about How Shakespeare Saved My Life
Hershey Felder: The Piano and Me
Hershey Felder: The Piano and Me Hershey Felder, Book Music by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Bartók, Gershwin & More TheatreWorks Silicon Valley After creating and performing the past thirty years in some six thousand live performances and eighteen films the musical biographies of sixteen famed composers (Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Beethoven, … [Read more...] about Hershey Felder: The Piano and Me
The Last Goat
The Last Goat Gary Graves Central Works On the small, southernmost Greek island of Kosos in the twelfth century BCE lives a grandmother and her young granddaughter alone amidst groves of fruit trees, lush gardens of vegetables, a surrounding sea of fresh fish, and one lone goat. Any men who once lived there have long been away at a far-off war or have died of the … [Read more...] about The Last Goat
Annunciation
Annunciation Lauren Groff Word for Word and Z Space "It is only now when I know myself to be good and bad in equal measures." That announcement of sorts -- or "annunciation" -- comes after our unnamed narrator has recalled a year much earlier in her life post college graduation when she headed across the country to land initially in San Francisco, California with … [Read more...] about Annunciation
Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: A New Musical
Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: A New Musical Ashley Robinson (Book); Dan Gillespie Sells (Music); Shakina (Lyrics) Based on the Play by Ed Graczyk It's hot and dusty in McCarthy, Texas where it has not rained in three years. But in the summer of 1975, the loyal "Disciples of James Dean" are mopping the sweat from their brows as they gather … [Read more...] about Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: A New Musical
Co-Founders
Co-Founders Ryan Nicole Austin, Beau Lewis, Adesha Adefela Music Team Led by Victoria Theodore American Conservatory Theater For seven years, Esata has been coding in her mother's West Oakland basement, creating an interacting avatar of her deceased father, Cyril -- an incredible accomplishment for someone non-degreed who learned to code with her dad on an Atari … [Read more...] about Co-Founders
Pear Slices 2025
Pear Slices 2025 Various Playwrights Pear Theatre Since Season Two of its now twenty-three, Pear Theatre each year has reaped a delicious harvest of world premiere, one-act playlets offered as Pear Slices -- six to eight, ten-to-fifteen-minute pieces, each written by members of an ongoing Pear Playwrights' Guild who meet every two weeks to discuss and provide … [Read more...] about Pear Slices 2025
Simple Mexican Pleasures
Simple Mexican Pleasures Eric Reyes Loo New Conservatory Theatre Center No one would possibly dare accuse Eric of even having one toe still in the closet -- not his friends, family, colleagues, or even a casual passer by on the streets of L.A. But when his boyfriend in Seattle sends him a text that "I think it's over" just as Eric is packing his hoards of … [Read more...] about Simple Mexican Pleasures
