For theater companies, the holiday season can be less "good will toward men" than "notorious conundrum." This time of year is one of the most... More >>

The title of Performers Under Stress's new show might sound like the Uncle Sam recruiting poster of the theater world. In fact, You Need to Read... More >>

Early in the second act of Superior Donuts, produced by Custom Made Theatre Company, Arthur (Don Wood) explains how his immigrant heritage shaped... More >>

The Cutting Ball Theater's production of Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep has no shortage of headline-makers. It falls on the 100th... More >>

When Galen Murphy-Hoffman enters the stage in Shotgun's production of Assassins, you recognize his character immediately. The ashen complexion,... More >>

Now on tour at American Conservatory Theater, the Tony Award-winning revival of The Normal Heart features a mode of acting we don't see often in... More >>

When you descend the steps of La Val's Subterranean for Impact Theatre's latest show, you aren't just entering a small black box theater in the... More >>

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Aurora Theatre CompanyAug. 24-Sept. 30 at the Aurora, 2081 Addison (at Shattuck), Berkeley. $32-$50; (510)... More >>

Amanda McBroom: Amanda McBroom performs cabaret. Sept. 7-9. $37.50. The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason (at O'Farrell), 394-1189. "Audium... More >>

In Blithe Spirit, the spirit of make-believe and enchantment that California Shakespeare Theater achieved in The Tempest with Prospero's magic... More >>

"Play the game yourselves a few times," said Kip Fagan, director of Circle Mirror Transformation, at a recent rehearsal. "In character?" asked... More >>

There are good reasons why Sweeney Todd, now at the Eureka in a Ray of Light production, has something of a cult following. The Demon Barber of... More >>

"I kind of want to apologize for the noise," said Julia Heitner, co-artistic director of San Francisco Theater Pub. "But I feel like this is... More >>

Let's play a game. Try to forget the name of the play printed right above this review and then see what you would make of these hints about... More >>

As Berkeley Rep Artistic Director Tony Taccone has it, playwright Eve Ensler "is dedicated to this almost antiquated notion that theater can... More >>

In this town, it's heresy not to love Bill Irwin. The renowned clown and Tony Award-winning actor got his start in the Bay Area, where he was a... More >>

When you walk into Tenderloin, the new documentary play at the Cutting Ball Theater, you might find yourself disoriented, even doing a double... More >>

A few years ago, the Thrillpeddlers, San Francisco's theater of the gaudy, gory, and grotesque, embarked on a collaboration that could hardly... More >>

While he comes closer to pure evil than anyone else in Shakespeare, the villain in Othello is often called within the play itself "honest Iago."... More >>

The opening moments of A Lie of the Mind, now at the Boxcar, stand among the most intense in all of theater. Jake (a feral Joe Estlack) retches... More >>

In his pre-show speech, director Brian Katz warns us that his production of A Bright Room Called Day at the Custom Made Theatre Co. runs two... More >>

You can be forgiven for having great expectations for The Waiting Period, Brian Copeland's new solo show at the Marsh. His last play, 2004's Not... More >>

Arthur in Underland: Performed by Dandelion Dancetheater. Fridays-Sundays, 8 p.m. Through March 18. $13-$24. CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission (at Ninth... More >>

Sexy topical questions add sheen to the surface of Annie Baker's Body Awareness, a Bay Area premiere now at the Aurora: To what extent is... More >>

Becky Shaw, a regional premiere now at SF Playhouse, is like a two-hour greatest hits album ... for a soap opera. Have a favorite cliché... More >>

It's about time someone staged a play that revealed critics for what they truly are: sexy. Granted, the critic in Sorry Fugu, the first of two... More >>

For some of us, the allure of running away with the circus, traveling in gypsy vans, living in backstage tent cities, and clowning around is but... More >>

If this theatrical season has had any major trend, it's the fairy tale. First, Marin Theatre Company gave us Bellwether, in which a fantastical... More >>

History has preserved no copy of the script of Ye Bare and Ye Cubb, the first play written and performed in America by English colonists, but... More >>