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Air Farce One "Boeing-Boeing" and "Endgame" reviewed....
Bringing Out The Inner Child Rachel Portman's opera adaptation of The Little Prince receives its west coast premiere....
The Little Flower Of East Orange Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play at The Public explores the blurred line between child- and parenthood...
Bright stars, dim casting "The Country Girl," "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," and "Thurgood" reviewed....
The World is...A Globe-Shaped Mini-Bar (According to David Mamet) David Mamet's 'November' reveals just how much bad acting there is in The Whitehouse...
What's Beckett Without The Laughs? Beckett plays should have us rolling in the aisles but John Turturro's Hamm keeps us sitting in our seats....
Just add Waters "Cry-Baby" and "Kiss Me, Kate," reviewed....
Smackdown All the world's a ring -- if you're Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton...
The Greeks Were Much More Open-Minded Musings on a production of The Trojan Women highlights just how much less "with it" we are than the Ancient...
Going Going Gone How much would you pay for the chance to spend an evening with a theatre critic?...
Mother knows worst "A Catered Affair" and "From Up Here" reviewed....
On Wrestling Hildegard von Bingen Making one's debut as a soloist is one thing; doing it in plainchant is quite another...
A Bloody Good Show San Francisco: Where Noel Coward, Sweeney Todd and a lunatic asylum intersect...
Enter Macbeth, with hammer and sickle "Macbeth" and "Time of My Life" reviewed....
Comic distractions for a Thursday morning Sir Ian McKellen pokes fun at his own gravitas....
Meet The Play Group The Office meets Candid Camera in a new video series about San Francisco theatre...
Critics Don't Like Giving Speeches The annual Glickman Awards ceremony is a satisfying experience for a theatre critic, except for the speeches....
Need Discussions About Theatre & Politics Always Be Irksome? A soiree in Oakland, CA involving pizza, cupcakes and a heated discussion about the much-hated intersection of theatre and politics...
Collaborating Critics Two critics collaborate in a weeklong blog-fest to compare three local productions of Patrick Shanley's Doubt....
Theatre for the YouTube Generation TCG has launched a three-minute theatre video contest as part of the run-up to its annual conference. But who are...
The importance of not being earnest "South Pacific" and "Blithe Spirit" reviewed....
New AD for The Magic Theatre After four months of searching, San Francisco's venerable home for new plays has a new leader....
Sondheim here, Sondheim there "Gypsy," "A Little Night Music," and "The Four of Us" reviewed....