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Whale Songs

Central Works remakes Moby-Dick as a musical about radical conservationists in the 1970s.

Kathleen Turner plays journalist Molly Ivins as a patchwork of quips.

You’ve scoffed about the romantic comedy wish-fulfillment archetype, now see the play!

The presidential debates are upon us, Election Day is just a few weeks away, and two local theater companies are getting into the spirit…

THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #110: The Internationalist, Just Theater, November 6.

He may be long in the tooth, but he never gets old. The big daddy of all vampires, Count Dracula is one of those…

THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #63: 1001, Just Theater, May 31