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San Francisco: Ute Lemper – in a class all her own
With the outstanding support of the Vogler Quartet and virtuoso musician and arranger Stefan Malzew, this is a must-see show. Bravo!
Samuel Beckett and The Global Waiting for Better Days
The language processing in Beckett's drama rests on a painful understanding of the inadequacy of words and the lack of identity between human words and the felt reality.
Theater Review: ‘Green Whales’ – Sympathy for the Devil?
Gloria McDonald and Sara Luna lead a superb cast of four that capture the just the right tone of comic desperation without ever lapsing into annoying caricature.
Bay Area Stage: ‘Art’ a wonderful post-modern comedy
Northside's production of Art is a sly, inspired piece of accessible entertainment that never succumbs to the weight of its own profundity.
City Lights takes on seductive power of political life
Aphrodisiac is competently acted, with an outstanding performance by Amanda Folena as a sympathetic Monica Lewinsky.
The Anniversary of August Strindberg and the Swedish Culture Amnesia
Theatre met the ideal demands and the small theatre got just what it needed, and it created Swedish performing theatre history. A total of 24 Strindberg plays were performed, beginning with Miss Julie.
Theater Review: ‘The Will Rogers Follies’ – An old-fashioned song and dance extravaganza
But the piece de resistance is a massive, multi-tiered staircase, with each step colorfully illuminated from underneath. It’s placed center stage and climbs virtually to the ceiling in grand Ziegfeld fashion – bravo!
Theater Review: ‘Three Sisters’ – The classic that should have been
Greg MacKellan and the entire company must be congratulated for reviving an unfairly discarded masterpiece that will undoubtedly receive (finally) the recognition, accolades and large-scale treatment that it so richly deserves. Bravo!
Imagination. A Leap of Faith. And Walkways.
At times the wind blows so forcefully, it looks as if someone has dumped buckets of sand on the terrace. Some of us sweep and dust our homes fastidiously; others just step over the piles of dust.
Review: ‘Period of Adjustment’ – Extraordinary cast brings Tennessee Williams to life
Despite being a more overt comedy, Williams doesn’t shy away from his serious recurring motifs of familiar dysfunction, homosexuality and sexual repression.
