It’s not often that theater reviewers heap praise on the set designer in the same way that they do on…
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Nicholas Hytner’s new production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is notable for the casting of Gwendoline Christie (fan favorite Brienne…
“The Underpants” will get you hot under the collar but not as intended by author Steve Martin. Martin’s adaptation of…
From the first joyful strains of “I Hear Music” sung by a sassy waitress wearing bobby socks, a toe-tapping-head-bobbing good…
The downside to creating a brilliant show comes later, when you create one that’s merely good. When Pigpen Theatre Company…
The little lifeboat is swiftly sent down./ Too many men too greedily/ Hold on to it as they drown. —…
Alas, sometimes a title gives away the plot. Maybe it is foolish to expect more from a play written by…
On the page, there’s nothing overtly magical about As You Like It. Nobody conjures storms or misappropriates love potions or…
Tony Taccone, Berkeley Rep’s acclaimed Artistic Director for the last 21 years, is about to launch the last production of…
There’s nothing better than a bright and boisterous musical show to enhance one’s mood — and boy, do we need…
There’s a point, around halfway through What You Are, when one character turns to another and asks: “You gonna make…
“Humanism is dead, those who follow it are just old sentimentalists” — Eugène Ionesco In “Rhinoceros,” the celebrated absurdist play…