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Mar 19, 2024
Betty Reid Soskin, the Musical
Betty Reid Soskin, 102, has never subscribed to the narrative that women have shelf lives. She’s spent her whole life defying that while constantly reinventing herself. As the owner of Reid Records, one of California’s first Black-owned...
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...
Nov 14, 2023
‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’
The cult musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, had its off-Broadway premiere 25 years ago. Written by John Cameron Mitchell, with lyrics and music by Stephen Trask, the show at that time offered a radical take on...
Oct 24, 2023
World of Words
New York-based playwright Eisa Davis is drunk on words. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say she is enamored with language, as in “rarely, if ever, meets a word she cannot love.” With her Pulitzer Prize-finalist play,...
Oct 11, 2023
Yes, And Wine!
Trying something new can be intimidating for most everyone. As parents nudge or sometimes pressure their children to try out a dance class, participate in a summer camp or try something new, it can be somewhat hypocritical—as...
Sep 12, 2023
Hilarious Enabling
It’s difficult to describe the current political environment, which seems stranger than fiction. A former president of the United States faces 91 criminal counts in four separate indictments. Two civil cases are pending against him. He released...
Jun 27, 2023
Looking Forward
The best is yet to come for 2023
As summer advances and fall beckons, the East Bay reverberates with theater, opera and more dates to calendar now. Here are just a few.
Theater
Oakland Theatre Project: Gary, A Sequel to...
