Playwright, actor, and educator Anna Deavere Smith isn't volunteering to be a modern day Atlas. After hoisting the world of America's school-to-prison pipeline onto…
Amy Schumer hasn't slept around since college. “I would say sophomore year, I got the numbers up,” says the Inside Amy Schumer star, who…
Every now and then, you'll hear a casual reference to Eddie Izzard's 1999 recording of Dress To Kill from San Francisco's Orpheum Theater. (“Cake…
Loosen your belts. While Berkeley Rep's One Man, Two Guvnors won't bust your sides, the West Coast premiere of this play based on an…
“You want pre-show music, Kenny?” Pink's “Get the Party Started” fills Club Fugazi, where dozens of eager comics, hams, and thespians are waiting on…
He's not on the cast list, but the Devil is everywhere in Tarell McCraney's cyclonic Heads of Passes. At the very least, an evil…
There's plenty to admire in the Aurora's presentation of the Talley Trilogy, a three-play homage to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson. Foremost is Artistic…
The menace in Idris Goodwin's Blackademics, a West Coast premiere by Crowded Fire Theater, begins even before the play starts. Mikiko Uesugi's set design…
Bay Area theater suffers from gender disparity at every level of the game: whose scripts get produced and which kinds of stories get told,…
Poison is a person in Berkeley Repertory Theatre's stylish revival of Molière's classic 1664 satirical comedy, Tartuffe. Tartuffe arrives onstage like a silvery-snake-cum-Paris-fashion-model as…
