Geary Theater

Despite the great source material, War Music bombs

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Geary Theater and A.C.T.'s The Rainmaker Illustrates the Power of the Placebo Effect

Smells Like Queen Spirit

The famed S.F. duo's comic lounge act may veer all over, but booze is the glue that makes it work

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Our critics weigh in on local theater

So Cheap It's Free

A roundup of local stage offerings that won't dent your pocketbook

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

A roundup of local stage offerings that won't dent your pocketbook

Golda's Story

Portrait of a prime minister

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Rhyme and Punishment

A boisterous play in verse nearly lures our critic into poetic excess

Just a Game

A winning drama

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theatre

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theatre

Soap Scum

Serial sagas meet high camp

Kinda Sketchy

Three weeks of performance bliss

Blue Year's Eve

Reaves-Phillips breaks it down

Ghost Story

A new Christmas Carol chorus

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

A new Christmas Carol chorus

The Lady Lily

This isn't Skinny & Sweet!

Night & Day for the week of February 12-18, 2003

Highlights of the SF Weekly.

Child's Play

Teenage actors stage a world premiere about an American girl mysteriously transported through time to become a gladiator

Now Showing!

Shockheaded Peter & Noche Flamenca

Stage Capsules

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Stage

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Night & Day

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Night + Day

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Fine Feathered Friends

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Night + Day

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Stage

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Night + Day

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Stage

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Night + Day

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Stage

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Night+Day

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Night+Day

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Night+Day

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Night+Day

Presto Pronto and Cat's Paw, Doing Durang, The House of Mirth

Picks and Pits

ACT's Cherry Orchard serves up a feast of characters and images; An Inspector Calls is merely a visual feast

Wordplay

Dark Rapture explores language without involving us dramatically; Slavs! eavesdrops on a nation involved in a deeply searching dialogue

Adrift

ACT's The Tempest is tossed by the storm of its spectacular impulses

Love's Labors

Changes of Heart plumbs the unexpected depths of dreams and desires

Night+Day

Changes of Heart plumbs the unexpected depths of dreams and desires

Carey Nation

As ACT returns to its home at the restored Geary, Artistic Director Carey Perloff stages a coup de theatre for her fourth season