Peter Prequel
Berkeley Playhouse enchants with Peter Pan prequel.
Read my review in the East Bay Times and Mercury News. Read more
Back on Avenue Q
Berkeley Playhouse produces its very first adult show.
Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News. Read more
Consider the Yeasts
Ray of Light Theatre has managed to do something pretty remarkable with its 2014 season; there are almost no human characters in it at all. I say “almost” only because there was briefly a human narrator (Morgan Freeman, actually) in
Triassic Parq this June, but other than that it was all dinosaurs. And now Ray of Light goes back even further down the evolutionary ladder to a time when the only life on earth was salt-sucking yeasts. Read more
Blood Red, White and Blue
The presidential debates are upon us, Election Day is just a few weeks away, and two local theater companies are getting into the spirit of the thing by staging gleefully perverse musicals about the U.S. presidency.
