By age 29, Berkeley-born actor Ari’el Stachel had won a Drama Desk Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a Tony,for…
Theater
Twelfth Night may be Shakespeare’s most joyous comedy – there are so many fools and so few actual villains. Set…
Pulling out all stops, New Village Arts has delivered an exuberant staging of “Singin’ in the Rain,” with a gifted…
Lincoln Center Theater’s delightful and, yes, congenial, new production of Lerner & Loewe’s “Camelot” is notable for offering a fresh…
A Soldier’s Play, winner of the 1981 Pulitzer and the 2020 Tony for a revival, set in the segregated army…
What makes vampire stories appeal to civilized people with otherwise impeccable taste has never been apparent to me. The incisors…
The transition from childhood to adolescence is an emotional rollercoaster as the first steps toward independence collide with adult authority,…
Last Night and the Night Before at Steppenwolf Theatre is a tale of complex family relationships crippled by drug use and…
Antonio Edwards Suarez tells the story of his Latino/Black/Irish family in 80 poetic and emotional minutes of story and dance….
North Coast Repertory Theatre goes for laughs in Anton Chekhov’s classic “The Cherry Orchard.” While it may seem a reach…
Let me refresh your memory. March 1991 Rodney King, a black man, was pulled from his car and savagely beaten…
“You will be dreamt by a jackal.” Years ago, when I first encountered the passionate black and white, mural-sized charcoal…