Review: THE GREAT LEAP at Center Repertory Company
by Steve Murray - March 21, 2024
What did our critic think of THE GREAT LEAP at Center Repertory Company? Center Rep tackles Playwright Lauren Yee’s basketball/cultural drama and with a well-crafted staging of her 2017 powerhouse The Great Leap. Renowned for deftly combining her San Francisco roots, Chinese culture and global polit...
Review: MEAN GIRLS Comes to Broadway San Jose
by Linda Hodges - March 20, 2024
Tina Fey’s 2004 cult teen classic film MEAN GIRLS, made its way to Broadway in 2018 and has been playing to sold-out houses ever since. The musical is presented as a “Cautionary Tale,” about the cut-throat, caustic social climbing and clamoring that happens in high school where mean girls reign sup...
Broadway Bares San Francisco To Return To 1015 Folsom
by Steve Murray - March 18, 2024
Broadway Bares SF is coming back to the city with the highly anticipated return to stage on Sunday, June 16, 2024, at 1015 Folsom. The theme for this year’s Broadway Bares/SF Strips show is FilmStrips. Featuring 60 San Francisco dancers, this year's production, promises an unforgettable evening of e...
Review: THE 39 STEPS at SF Playhouse
by Steve Murray - March 18, 2024
What did our critic think of THE 39 STEPS at SF Playhouse? Director Susi Damilano and a superb cast spin comic gold out of Patrick Barlow’s parody of Hitchcock’s spy caper filled with chase scenes, female bombshells, and Nazi villains...
Review: THE FAR COUNTRY at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
by Linda Hodges - March 14, 2024
What did our critic think of THE FAR COUNTRY at Berkeley Repertory Theatre? The Far Country is a beautiful tale that resonates with history – one that is largely unknown to most of us. It is the story of how war and poverty can and does tear families apart. ...
Review: COST OF LIVING at Oakland Theater Project
by Kelly Rogers Flynt - March 10, 2024
The Bar Area premier of Martyna Majok’s COST OF LIVING has landed at Oakland Theater Project. With few frills and the focus on dialogue, COST OF LIVING pulls you in and never loosens its grip. In the midst of telling a story of a marginalized community, Oakland Theater Project reminds us of the univ...
Review: SWAN LAKE at San Francisco Ballet
by Jim Munson - February 29, 2024
What did our critic think of SWAN LAKE at San Francisco Ballet? BroadwayWorld reviews the smashing production of the all-time classic running through March 3rd at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House....