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The Glorious Fall of Bay Area Theater

Tis the season for fall picks.

Cal Shakes goes back to the Golden Age of Spanish drama with Life Is a Dream.

Playwright Luis Alfaro returns to Magic Theatre with the start of an epic American trilogy.

Every insane family is insane in its own way in Shepard revival at the Magic.

Somebody’s trying to tell you something, something desperately important, but you can’t understand.

A guy decides never to go out again after the LAPD Rodney King beating because it’s just not safe and finally emerges just in…

Scottish playwright Linda McLean’s back with another disturbing play at the Magic, and it’s a weird one.

California Shakespeare Theater’s season opener, Richard Montoya’s American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, is completely bonkers.

Enter a whole lot of colorful characters who knew the dead guy and come to praise him, and maybe even eventually to bury him.

Hey, who am I? Who are you? What are we doing here? What’s this needle doing in my arm? And shouldn’t there be a…