When San Francisco Playhouse created its Sandbox Series in 2009, the idea was to develop risky and, in some cases, unpolished plays through rehearsals,…
Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and author of Maus, is a master of letting his images speak for him. But in bringing Wordless!, his…
Fifteen years ago, Litquake was just a twinkle in the eye of local writers Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware. But what once was a…
By all counts, Terminator Too: Judgment Play should succeed. Created in 2012, the show, produced by Thomas Blake of Point Break Live! fame, follows…
Sequined and feathered yet serious and decidedly female, An Audience with Meow Meow is to cabaret what lions are to kitties. Calling herself “Mother…
As recently as the mid-aughts, Tim & Eric were just a couple of guys you once heard your Pasadena hair stylist mention as her…
Crowded Fire Theater artistic director Marissa Wolf knew she wanted to produce her company's coming show, The Late Wedding, before she had even finished…
It's hard to find a play about feminism that would be controversial in Berkeley, California. But Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo, which this…
Stuart Bousel's play, Everybody Here … Says Hello!, might sound like an insubstantial, dishy comedy — it's about a bisexual drag performer-qua-aspiring actor with…
Why dedicate seven years of your life — and your audience's attention — to a single playwright? “Because I love the plays. It's that…
