Bill Irwin returns to San Francisco in ‘Scapin’ at A.C.T.

In this lively baggy-pants comedy, the rascally title character balances his penchant for mayhem and mischief with a promise to help two pairs of wide-eyed lovers.

Carmina Burana: Revisited

This was a creative and impactful setting to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, which in Labayen's own words features "strong women that will kick your ass and look good while doing it."

Theater Review: ‘Rent’ at City Lights, San Jose

And it is about the people that we become when that love is rent from us and rips an incredible hole from our hearts and souls.
Alondra de la Parra

Balloons drop on SF Symphony’s Season Finale

Being reasonably disconnected, I was unaware that Chris Noth was Mr. Big until he walked on stage - so his very presence would have been treat enough.
Urinetown, Coastal Rep

You’re in good company at Urinetown

Sometimes you've got to fight for your right... to pee.
The exterior of the Roda Theatre at the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Photographer: Timothy Hursley, courtesy of ELS

Susan Medak celebrates two decades at the helm of Berkeley Rep

With one show on Broadway, another headed to London, and a new season of ambitious plays on the way, Berkeley Repertory Theatre pauses for a moment to salute Susan Medak, who has served as managing director of the nonprofit for 20 years. During those decades, Berkeley Rep - and...
SFArtsED, San Francisco

SFArtsEd Players win fans

An artists-in-residence program has served over 200,000 kids since 1965.

Theater Review: ‘Auctioning the Ainsleys’

An absurd, charming, funny production about people, objects, family and what happens to all of them when one’s memory is Going… Going… GONE!
Psycho: Normal stands out front the house on the hill.

Mother Approves: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ with the SF Symphony

It warrants repeat viewings, if not for the trivia alone: a flushing toilet, the bra (white, then black), Hitch's last B&W, Vera Miles' wig, references to birds.
Seascapes Dragon Productions Palo Alto

Lizards Invade the Dragon!

While Albee no doubt intended the second act to speak to abstract notions about the evolution of relationship, the lizard performance was so entrancing that it took center stage.