ACTing Out The rumor buzzing in the ranks at ACT is that associate artistic director Benny Sato Ambush went straight to the dailies with…
The Medium lacks a dramatic raison d'étre; Angels remains thrilling theate
Two versions of Othello point up the drama's difficulties
More Proof God Exists A production that would have recast Shakespeare's Othello as the Trial of O.J. has folded before its first performance, presumably…
In Memoriam Bill Oliver, longtime East Bay theater artist, died of a heart attack early this month in Costa Rica, where he was directing…
A Place With the Pigs probes the hell of inertia; A Moon for the Misbegotten trips on its long-winded sincerity
A Pig's Life A Place With the Pigs (A Personal Parable), by Athol Fugard, goes up this week at Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley….
The Sirens probes the dark mystery of why women stay with abusive husbands
The poetic power of Ntozake Shange's colored girls; Sweeny seduces with pageantry; Bob Davis' Banjo
Till Death Do Us Part Darrah Cloud began writing The Sirens two years ago, long before the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson made domestic…
