The dancers move more like an octopus, each an appendage of the whole beast, so you can focus on individual tentacles slithering or watch the whole beast move across the stage. I’d love to see this number again and again.

Per Berkeley Rep's standards, the acting is once again superb. James Carpenter is always extraordinary. Be sure to do what I do, and seek out every one of his performances - they are timeless gems, over and over again.

There was quite a bit of skilled tapping and dancing throughout the show and some of the performers such as Donisha Brown have a great skill at taking a beat and transforming it into an all out musical outburst of energy.

"I'm living my life, what are you doing?"

In March 2009, with the opening of San Jose Rep's exceptional 'The Kite Runner', we inaugurated the theater section here on Stark Insider. Since that time, SF Playhouse has consistently garnered some of our highest praise.

No question: playwright Trevor Allen has a gift.

This wonderful production once again demonstrates the depth of talent and creativity that one has come to expect when visiting the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco.

Details like these can give a middle aged woman in frumpy, grey sweats with hair that’s gone seven ways since Sunday a modicum of credibility that would otherwise be lacking.

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Funds raised at the gala event will support Aurora Theatre Company’s live performances, innovative education program, and the Global Age Project new works initiative.