Anna Ziegler’s play at the Aurora Theatre (through May 5) investigates a college freshman’s claim that she was raped.
In Dipika Guha’s play, a CEO practices her dog-eat-dog and cobra poses, at San Francisco Playhouse.
A high school basketball player’s hoop dreams include meeting the Communist father he’s never met, at A.C.T. through March 31.
Mfoniso Udofia unpacks a host of conflicting emotions when she reunites a mother with the daughter she gave up — at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater through March 31.
The Ibsen contemporary has no interest in reconciliation, and in this updated version of the play — at Aurora Theatre through March 3 — flirtations give way to hellfire.
In Pam MacKinnon’s directorial debut at A.C.T., Edward Albee’s play about marriage and humanoid lizards never becomes silly or melodramatic.
Lauren Yee’s meta-narrative about Chinese heritage (and gangster Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow) is full of ‘delightful bursts of irony, witty social commentary, and flashes of unrestrained joy.’
Sarah Treem’s play (at Custom Made Theatre through Feb. 9) is set in 1972 at a bed-and-breakfast that serves as a shelter in more than one sense.
Two plays in her “Ufot Family Cycle” make their Bay Area premieres this season, showing the Nigerian Civil War through one clan’s experience.
In this new musical — at Berkeley Rep through Feb. 24 — there’s so much going on plot-wise that much else gets swallowed up.