The downside to creating a brilliant show comes later, when you create one that’s merely good. When Pigpen Theatre Company…
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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…
San Francisco’s current, and unfortunately too brief, special engagement of the Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning Broadway hit “Beautiful: The Carol…
How you react to “Happy Days” at the Taper may depend on how you feel about revisiting absurdist theater. If…
Sometimes, when you go to the theater, you want deep thoughts and pathos that slaps you repeatedly in the face….
MIAMI — In the deeply unsettling, tragic, yet heartwarming, even life-affirming documentary play United Flight 232, plane crash survivor Clif Marshall…
“The Good Book’s” authors, Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, creators of Berkeley Rep’s 2012 “An Iliad,” take on a colossal…