The unsettling message of Lee Brady’s play is that when a man persists in pursuing a woman after receiving dozens of “no’s,” she’ll eventually give in.
A storm approaches Manhattan in Nilaja Sun’s play at Berkeley Rep, with its echoes of Anna Deveare Smith.
Simon Block’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel (at Aurora Theatre Company through Dec. 16) pays homage to the family ghosts — and has them materialize on the stage from time to time.
Jaclyn Backhaus’ play (at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater through Dec. 16) about an 1869 voyage down the Colorado River casts women in the roles of men — but not in a gimmicky or drag manner.
Ugandan society stands at the brink of civil war in Hansol Jung’s turn-of-the-millennium play, at NCTC through Dec. 2.
Sheila Callaghan’s high-energy romp, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, includes uncompromising feminism and a borderline-incestuous mother-son relationship.
Director Gary Graves encourages the cast to express anguish with the bluntness of ball-peen hammer in this adaptation of a Chekhov novella, at Central Works through Nov. 11.
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s astonishing and unpredictable play (at Berkeley Rep through Nov. 4) centers on two sisters whose relationship is defined by an unspecified and unspoken antagonism.
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play constructs the social fabric of an entire community from a bar in the ailing industrial city of Reading, Pa.
Ványa’s midlife crisis and anxiety ripple outward, in Cutting Ball Theater’s production of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece.
