Nothing like a great depression to get you in the mood to deal with love and money. It's like a sucker punch—all while trying to balance the checkbook on $26 a week and keep the family on the rails. 'Awake and Sing!', written in 1935 by Clifford Odets, pulls no...

San Jose Rep's 2009-2010 season, which also marks Rick Lombardo's inaugural year, takes a bold leap with a modern interpretation of William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy, 'As You Like It.' The start of the play heralds this new era with three dramatic screen panels which span the entire height of the...

Less money, less space somehow juices up the creative forces.

  This labor day weekend why not catch a show here in the Bay Area? There are many quality productions—big and small—with something bound to please your senses. Satires. Shakespeare. Heart-wrenching romance and drama. Musicals. Comedy. You name it! It's impressive how much creative and artistic vibrancy we're surrounded with here...

I always admire people who can poke fun at themselves yet deliver a serious message. That's exactly what David Henry Hwang does with his mockumentary 'Yellow Face' and there is a lot to admire here. His narrative, which casts himself at the center of a part-reality, part-fictional account of...

'Tommy', the infamous rock opera by Pete Townshend of The Who, is legendary stuff. Many a childhood was forever changed thanks to that record. It became the soundtrack of a generation; a teenage wasteland. The musical is based on the 1969 double album which tells a loose story about a...

My how times have changed. A lot of so-called  therapy today (not that I would know!) is based on spa-like treatment administered under the guise of "wellness." Patients are pampered and can tweet and Facebook to their narcissistic-heart's content. But there was a day, at least according to writer Ken...

'Peter Pan' the musical is the sun, moon and stars of Berkeley.

Tinyard Hill's world premiere at TheatreWorks will have you reminiscing about your own memories of summer love.