Recovery, Relapse, Rinse, Repeat

Recovery, Relapse, Rinse, Repeat

The familiarity of the addiction and recovery narrative may be part of the point.

Read my review of the one-woman show Playing My Hand at Altarena Playhouse in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more

Good “Fences” from Good Neighbors

Good “Fences” from Good Neighbors

Cal Shakes’s Fences brings maternal power to a tale of fathers and sons.

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Ogre and Ogre Again

Ogre and Ogre Again

Woodminster Summer Musicals goes ogre the top with Shrek.

My review is in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more

Pretty Persuasion

Pretty Persuasion

A little Austen goes nicely with Shakespeare in Livermore.

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Leguizamo Takes Us to School

Leguizamo Takes Us to School

John Leguizamo teaches Latin History lesson at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

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Veterans of the Streets

Veterans of the Streets

3Girls Theatre depicts the lives of homeless women veterans on the streets of L.A.

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School’s in for Summer

School’s in for Summer

The Mime Troupe takes on the privatization of public schools.

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A Nonoperatic Figaro

A Nonoperatic Figaro

Beaumarchais’s original Marriage of Figaro enjoys a rare revival in Berkeley.

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A Bear of a Play

A Bear of a Play

Jealousy and foolery and bears, oh my!

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Go Grumpily into That Good Night

Go Grumpily into That Good Night

An elderly misanthrope goes through her pre-suicide to-do list at the EXIT.

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