.Theater & Performance

Feb 20, 2024

Elevator Repair Service Reenacts a Legendary Debate

Can a one-hour, 1965 televised debate between academically inclined orators that’s available for anyone to watch on YouTube warrant a fully produced, live-theater reenactment in 2024? It most certainly and profoundly can, when it comes to New York-based Elevator Repair Service’s magnetic Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge. The production is...
Jul 14, 2021

One Voice, One Mic: Alameda’s only comedy club comes roaring back with laughter

For our West Alameda Spotlight, Lou Fancher shines on the Alameda Comedy Club, the only comedy club in Alameda, and owners Patrick Ford and Lori Theis as they reopen their doors and invite laughter back into our lives.
Dec 9, 2020

Radio Days

Riding a crazy Covid-19 carousel to reach production, Contra Costa Civic Theater has managed to remount last season’s big hit, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. The El Cerrito-based theater company’s virtual telling of the...
Apr 9, 2019

Actually May Be More Relevant Today Than it Was in 2017

Ella Dershowitz and Michael A. Curry in Anna Ziegler’s Actually, directed by Tracy Ward. Credits: Photo by David Allen No one sees Anna Ziegler's play, Actually, alone. Presented through May 5 in Aurora Theatre's intimate Harry's Upstage venue, unconscious...
Jan 23, 2019

‘Paradise Square’ Dreams Big

Jason Oremus and Jacobi Hall dance in Paradise Square. Credits: Photo courtesy of Berkeley Rep If the potent manifesto and all-star talent behind the scenes and onstage in Paradise Square don’t cause your pulse to spike with yearning for...
Oct 11, 2017

Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses at Zellerbach in Berkeley

The visually stunning play by Mary Zimmerman is coming back to its Bay Area roots this month. Metamorphoses had its West Coast premiere at the Zellerbach Playhouse...
Sep 20, 2017

Blasted by Sarah Kane

In 1995, British playwright Sarah Kane premiered her first production, a provocative three-person play featuring rape, suicide, and cannibalism. It shocked London audiences with its unflinching depiction and was met by largely negative...
Aug 30, 2017

Luna Gale at Aurora Theatre

Exasperated social worker Caroline (Jamie Jones) drowns in paperwork in Aurora's Bay Area Premiere of Luna Gale. Credits: Photo by David Allen Luna Gale, written by playwright Rebecca Gilman,...
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