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Theater Reviews—San Francisco and Beyond

2017

2017

December 2017

“My Stroke of Luck” at The Marsh, S.F.

“The Jewelry Box” at The Marsh, S.F.

“A Christmas Carol” at American Conservatory Theatre, S.F.

“Avenue Q” at New Conservatory Theatre Center, S.F.

“A Civil War Christmas” at Town Hall, Lafayette

“Ageless” at Quantum Dragon, S.F.

“Participants” at TheatreFIRST, Berkeley

 

 November 2017

“Watch on the Rhine” at Berkeley Rep

“Elephant & Piggie” at Bay Area Children’s Theatre

“Shakespeare in Love” at Marin Theatre Company

“Bright Star” at Curran, S.F.

“Durst Case Scenario” at The Marsh, S.F.

“Girls of the Golden West” at S.F. Opera

“School for Scandal” at Theatre Lunatico, Berkeley

“CSU Ferguson” at East Bay State, Hayward

“Over the River and through the Woods” at CCCT, El Cerrito

“Black Rider” at Shotgun Players, Berkeley

“Beautiful, The Carole King Musical” at San Jose Center

“Willy Wonka” at BACT, Berkeley

“The Royale” at Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

“The Lion in Winter”  at Custom Made Theater, S.F.

“Le Switch” at NCTC, S.F.

“Hamlet” at Arabian Shakespeare Festival, S.F.

“The Liar” at Center Rep, Walnut Creek

“The Normal Heart” at Theatre Rhino, S.F.

“You’re Going to Die” at Swedish American Hall, S.F.

“#bros”  at Faultline Theatre , S.F.

“The Eva Trilogy” at Magic Theatre, S.F.

October 2017

“Small Mouth Sounds” at A.C.T., S.F.

“Small Mouth Sounds” at A.C.T., S.F.

“Pinky”  at Marin Onstage, San Rafael

“Play!” at BACT, Berkeley

“Strange Ladies” at Central Works, Berkeley

“Signs” at PianoFight, S.F.

“Metamorphoses” at The Playhouse, CAL, Berkeley

“The Obligation” at Petrero Stage, San Francisco

“Imaginary Comforts” at Berkeley Repertory Theatre

“Ain’t Misbehavin'” at Gateway Theatre, San Francisco

“Thomas and Sally” at Marin Theatre Company

“The Song of the  Nightingale” at Town Hall Theatre, Lafayette

“Colette Uncensored” at The Marsh, Berkeley

“This Bitter Earth” at New Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco

September 2017

“Cabaret” at Contra Costa Civic Theatre, El Cerrito

“A Tale of Autumn” at Crowded Fire Theater, San Francisco

“The Legend of Pink” at Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at African American Shakespeare Company, San Francisco

“Measure for Measure” at Cal Shakes, Orinda

“Luna Gale” at Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

“Ain’t too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations” at Berkeley Repertory Theatre

“How I Learned to Drive” at Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco

“How Not to Die” at the 2017 Fringe Festival, San Francisco

“In the Next Room, of the Vibrator Play” at Pear Theatre, Mountain View

“Million Dollar Quartet” at Center REPertory Company, Walnut Creek

“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” at Bay Area’s Children Theater, Berkeley

“Not a Genuine Black Man” at The Marsh, San Francisco

August 2017

“Blasted” at Shotgun Players, Berkeley

“Sister Act” at Berkeley Playhouse

“Rashomon” at Ubuntu Theater, Oakland

“Teddy Bears’ Picnic” at Oakland Children’s Fairyland

“Zenith” at S.F. Playhouse

“Radio Golf” at Multi-Ethnic Theater, S.F.

“Black Odyssey” at Cal Shakes, Orinda

“The Mathematics of Love” at Theater Brava, S.F.

“Pint Sized Theater”- PianoFight, San Francisco

The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence – Shotgun Players, Berkeley

Toba Tek Singh – Naatak, Woodside

The Other Place – Symmetry Theatre, Berkeley

July 2017

Castle Happy – Altarena Playhouse, Alameda

La Cage Aux Folles – S.F. Playhouse

This Land Was Made – Unbuntu

Elvis Has Left the Building – Chanticleers

Winter – Central Works

The Four Immigrants – Lucie Stern Theatre

Book of Mormon – Broadway San Jose

A Glass Menagerie – Cal Shakes

Life on the Ocean Wave – Exit Theatre

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Livermore Shakes

An Octoroon – Berkeley Rep 

Much Ado About Nothing – Marin Shakes

Rainbow Fish Musical – BACT

June 2017

In the Heights – CCCT

Brownsville Song – Shotgun Players

Hamilton – SHN Orpheum Theatre

The Graduate – Palo Alto Players

You mean to do me harm – SF Playhouse

The Legend of Georgia McBride – Marin Theatre

Beethoven – Theatreworks

Warplay – NCTC

How to be a White Man – Faultline Theatre

A Night with Janis Jopin – A.C.T SF

The Winter’s Tale – African American Shakespeare

Toxic Avenger – The Stage

The Soiled Dove – Tortona Big Top

Grandeur – Magic Theatre

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site – BACT

As you like it – Cal Shakes

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Rhino

An Ideal Husband – Town Hall

Locus of Control – Bindlestiff Studio

As you like it – Cal Shakes

Altar Boyz – Center Rep

Mother Night – Custom Made Theatre

May 2017

The Roommate – SF Playhouse

Hela – TheatreFirst 

Monsoon Wedding – Berkeley Rep 

Sordid Lives – NCTC

Hedge – Portrero Stage

Brilliant Lies – Firescape Theatre

Monsoon Wedding – Berkeley Rep

Smut – Word for Word

The Mushroom Cure – The Marsh SF

The Mushroom Cure – The Marsh SF

The Events – Shotgun Players

Home – Lorraine Hansberry Theatre

Sweat – Studio 54, New York City

Guards at the Taj – Marin Theatre Company

Autobiography of a Terrorist – Golden Thread

Battlefield – A.C.T. SF

My Name is Rachel Corrie – Magic Theatre

April 2017

Autobiography of a Terrorist – Golden Thread 

The Encounter – Curran Theatre

Spell Eternity – Quantum Dragon

The Bodyguard – San Jose Center

Phèdre – Cutting Ball Theater

End of the Rainbow – Lesher Center for the Arts

Overnight – Flightdeck

Sisters Matsumoto – Center Rep Walnut Creek

Overnight – Flightdeck

Urinetown – Berkeley Playhouse

Macbeth – Theatre Luncatico

Breeders – Faultline

Cal Theater Alums 

The Memory Stick – The Stage

The Town Hall Affair – Z Space

The Lost Years – Contra Costa Civic Theatre

Needles and Opium – ACT SF

Fly Guy – Bay Area Children’s Theatre

The House of Yes – Custom Made

Sisters Masumoto – Center Rep Walnut Creek

Jitney – African American Shakespeare company

Nora – Shotgun Players

Grease – CCMT 

Jihad Jones – Arabian Shakespeare

To the Bone – Ubuntu Theater

New Girl in Town – 42nd St Moon

Summer in Sanctuary – Marsh SF

“Baltimore Waltz” – Magic Theatre 

March 2017

“The Merchant of Venice” – Theater of the Others

“Princess Ida” – Lyric Theatre

“Noises Off” – San Francisco Playhouse

“Wheels on the Bus” – Bay Area Children’s Theatre

“Beowulf” – We Players

“You for Me for You” – Crowded Fire Theatre

“Without Mercy” – Off Broadway West Theatre

“Peerless” – Marin Theatre Co., Mill Valley

“A View from the Bridge” – Pear Theatre, Mountain View

“Eclipsed” – Curran Theatre, S.F.

Leaving the Blues” – NCTC, San Francisco

“Roe” – Berkeley Repertory Theatre

“John” – A.C.T., San Francisco

“Smokey Joe’s Café” – Town Hall Theatre, Lafayette

“Polaroid Stories” – The Playhouse, U.C., Berkeley

Don Quichotte – Island City Opera, Alameda

Holding the Edge – The Marsh, SF

Well – Contra Costa Civic Theatre

Years in the Hundreds – Central Works

Isaac’s Eye – Custom Made Theatre

February 2017

Four Dogs and a Bone – Firescape Theatre

Airport Insecurity – Naatak

Billy Elliot – Berkeley Playhouse

Death of a Salesman – Ubuntu

Eat, Pray , Laugh! – The Marsh, Berkeley

Silence! the Musical – Victoria Theatre

Ideation – Marin Onstage

Playtest – Shotgun Players

The End of Journalism – Shotgun Players

Fool for Love – Magic Theatre

Hand to God – Berkeley Rep

A Thousand Splendid Suns – ACT San Francisco

Daniel’s Husband – NCTC

The Real Thing – Aurora Theatre

The Christians – SF Playhouse

Women in Jeopardy – Center Rep

Native Son – Marin Theater Co

Waiting for Godot – Ubuntu Theater Project

January 2017

Uncanny Valley – Pear Theater

Importance of Being Earnest – aeofberkeley

Belleville – Custom Made Theatre

Don Pasquale – Island City Opera

Avenue Q – NCTC

Belleville – Custom Made Theatre

Tenderly, Rosemary Clooney Musical  – Altarena Playhouse

Hamlet  – Shotgun players

Gertrude Stein and a Companion – Rhino Theatre

Darwin in Malibu – Indra’s Net Theater

The Speakeasy – Boxcar theatre

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