Theatrical Plays

Magic Theatre Loses Artistic Director

Aisle Seat

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

Aisle Seat

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

The Nature of the Beast

Beast on the Moon is a novel struggling to be a play

Ptidying Up

Actor's Theater picks up after Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls

Killing My Neighbor

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What You Will

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Putting It Out There

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Tartuffe

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Half Full

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Edna O’Brien’s Tir na nÓg Loses Its Magic

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Inside Albert's Head and Lost & Found

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Mom's the Word

Frank Rich was wrong: Dead Mother is actually a pleasure to watch

Making a Killing

Frank Rich was wrong: Dead Mother is actually a pleasure to watch

Sparking Up

Frank Rich was wrong: Dead Mother is actually a pleasure to watch

What in Godot's Name?

Is doing Beckett by the book better than taking liberties with the famously controlling writer's texts?

Mystery, He Wrote

The playwright of one of these one-acts seems to have vanished without a trace

Pinter Love

Spoofing for a great playwright

Encore

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"The Pinter/Albee Duet"

Each playwright packs plenty of fierce eloquence into a single devastating act

Encore

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The Last Schwartz

A Neil Simon play with Eugene O'Neill aspirations

Barely Alive

How to make a funny optimist sound boring

The Rake in Hell

Marin Shakespeare's Don Juan is strong in everything but its lead

Carved in Stone

Four famous, dead, gay writers stage a hilarious catfight when a new young ghost arrives in their midst

"Love's Fire"

Playwrights devise short plays based on Shakespeare sonnets

Loser's Poker

All bets are off in Patrick Marber's wry and pointed Dealer's Choice

Stage

All bets are off in Patrick Marber's wry and pointed Dealer's Choice

Wet Blanket

All bets are off in Patrick Marber's wry and pointed Dealer's Choice

Amy Freed's comedy is far from spectacular in You, Nero

All bets are off in Patrick Marber's wry and pointed Dealer's Choice

Actors Theatre Takes on Tennessee Williams' Camino Real to Bewildering Effect

All bets are off in Patrick Marber's wry and pointed Dealer's Choice

A View from the Bridge

All bets are off in Patrick Marber's wry and pointed Dealer's Choice

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So what if August: Osage county won a Tony? It's still boring and bloated

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Mrs. Whitney, success when a playwright also directs

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SF Weekly Seeks New Theater Critic

After five glorious years as our chief theater critic, Chloe Veltman is moving on to a bigger stage. She's now writing a weekly arts column for the new Bay Area section of the New York Times. (Her column debuted yesterday.) We're sad to see her go, but happy to see such a prestigious publication rec ... More >>

"Seagull" still strikes a nerve in Shotgun's modern-day adaptation

After five glorious years as our chief theater critic, Chloe Veltman is moving on to a bigger stage. She's now writing a weekly arts column for the new Bay Area section of the New York Times. (Her column debuted yesterday.) We're sad to see her go, but happy to see such a prestigious publication rec ... More >>

"Tell It Slant": So studious and earnest it's practically inert

After five glorious years as our chief theater critic, Chloe Veltman is moving on to a bigger stage. She's now writing a weekly arts column for the new Bay Area section of the New York Times. (Her column debuted yesterday.) We're sad to see her go, but happy to see such a prestigious publication rec ... More >>

Throw Your Veggies

After five glorious years as our chief theater critic, Chloe Veltman is moving on to a bigger stage. She's now writing a weekly arts column for the new Bay Area section of the New York Times. (Her column debuted yesterday.) We're sad to see her go, but happy to see such a prestigious publication rec ... More >>

Theater Review: "Round and Round the Garden" at A.C.T.

After five glorious years as our chief theater critic, Chloe Veltman is moving on to a bigger stage. She's now writing a weekly arts column for the new Bay Area section of the New York Times. (Her column debuted yesterday.) We're sad to see her go, but happy to see such a prestigious publication rec ... More >>

"In the Red and Brown Water" is worth the hype

After five glorious years as our chief theater critic, Chloe Veltman is moving on to a bigger stage. She's now writing a weekly arts column for the new Bay Area section of the New York Times. (Her column debuted yesterday.) We're sad to see her go, but happy to see such a prestigious publication rec ... More >>

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