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Feb 18, 2009
Good Grief
Clive Worsley's first season as artistic director at Town Hall
Theatre Company of Lafayette was mostly programmed by his predecessor
Kevin Morales before the latter headed...
Feb 11, 2009
The Feminine Mecanique
At some point in its development, Sarah Ruhl's commissioned world
premiere for Berkeley Repertory Theatre changed its title from The
Vibrator Play to In the Next...
Feb 4, 2009
Left Behind
The name really says it all. Betrayed, a play adapted by
journalist George Packer from his own 2007 New Yorker article by
the same name, follows...
Jan 28, 2009
The Times They Are a-Changin’
Last week's biggest show was easily the inauguration festivities for
President Obama, so it's no surprise that local theater companies are
getting in on the act...
Dec 24, 2008
All the Year’s a Stage
If last year was a good year for the Irish in East Bay theatre, with
standout productions of George Bernard Shaw and Martin McDonagh, 2008
was...
Dec 10, 2008
A Tale Told by an Impresario
For a play whose name actors make a big deal about not uttering
because it's supposed to be bad luck, Macbeth has been
conspicuously popular around...
Dec 3, 2008
Thousand-Night Stand
The Arabian Nights is just the latest of several lush
and idiosyncratic takes on legends and fables that writer-director Mary
Zimmerman has brought out from Chicago...
Nov 26, 2008
‘Tis Pity She’s a Void
Impact Theatre closed last season with John Ford's 17th century
tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, filling the slot usually
reserved for Shakespeare in the company's...