review – The Idiolect

Founding Follies

CCMT revives a goofy musical trifle about the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Theresa Rebeck gets deep inside kitchen politics.

Berkeley Rep presents an eerily prescient It Can’t Happen Here.

Berkeley Playhouse enchants with Peter Pan prequel.

Jane Austen goes musical in San Francisco.

A writer airs out all the old family secrets in Other Desert Cities.

An old-timey Jekyll/Hyde haunts Fremont.

Marin Theatre Company kicks off its 50th season with August: Osage County.

It’s odd that a play about phonetics as a predictor of socioeconomic class would become an enduringly popular musical.

A traveling theatrical troupe mashes up Romeo and Jedi.