Theater
Ghost Stories by Ibsen Ibsen’s Rosmersolm is a dark, spooky play featuring one Rebecca West, arguably the most demonic heroine…
“Ice Glen,” running through Dec. 10 at Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, is a bagatelle, a brush of a butterfly wing,…
Irving Berlin’s score for Annie Get Your Gun is one of only a handful, like Guys and Dolls and The…
Frank McGuiness has given a slight Irish twist to his strident adaptation of Spanish author Ram�n Mar�a del Valle-Incl�n’s notoriously…
Everett Beekin is a strange play, not easy to classify, impossible to pin down. At first it seems to be…
By Harold Pinter Aurora Theater, Berkeley January 26-March 4, 2007 James Carpenter in The Birthday Party phoro: David Allen Aurora…
An enthusiastic crowd welcomed Karen Akers on her opening night at San Francisco’s Plush Room. Her engagement there is the…
The feeling a theatergoer has as Bea Arthur sings, jokes, and tells her stories is that earlier that day there…
Big Maggie is a compelling vision of the Irish mother as sociopath. Maggie Polpin (Marie Mullen) is a just widowed…
It might have been called “A Tale of Two Marriages.” Whatever the title, Donald Margulies’ Dinner With Friends merits its…
Despite great theatrical monologues from Irish dramatists including Beckett and Friel, new voices in Irish theatre are inevitably finding themselves…
Suggested reading: Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema (1995), Janet Staiger And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and…