Plethos Productions Brings Broadway Star to Castro Valley
by Blair Ingenthron - Feb 18, 2024
Plethos Productions has announced the launch of their inaugural theatre retreat, Camp Monologa, camp for the theatre kid at heart. It will take place from Friday, July 26 to Sunday, July 28 at Heirloom East Bay in Castro Valley.
Review: The Stage Adaptation of the Classic Game CLUE Takes the Stage at Center Rep
by Steve Murray - Nov 2, 2022
What did our critic think of CLUE at Center Rep? With lightning flashes and an ominous score, a mysterious dinner party at Boddy Manor begins with the arrival of an assortment of guests very familiar to anyone who ever played the Parker Brothers board game Clue. Based on the popular game and the 1985 cult film, this delightful production helmed by director Nancy Carlin and her talented cast and crew is a visual treat chock full of word puns, slapstick shtick and broad comic caricatures.
Photos: First Look at Center Repertory Company's CLUE
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 31, 2022
Center Repertory Company has released production photos from CLUE. Helmed by acclaimed Bay Area director Nancy Carlin, Clue will run through November 20, 2022 at the Lesher Center for the Arts. Check out the photos here!.
BWW Review: WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at SF Playhouse
by Steve Murray - Mar 24, 2022
Park your baggage at the door before experiencing Quiara Alegria Hudes' 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning drama Water by the Spoonful, because the characters presented here are plenty wounded, damaged, and extremely fragile. Not for the faint of heart, this is the tough stuff of addictions both physical and emotional. It may leave you counting your blessings which makes for compelling theatre.
Photos: Inside Look at WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at The San Francisco Playhouse
by Marissa Tomeo - Mar 19, 2022
San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) announced casting for Water by the Spoonful, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner by Quiara Alegría Hudes (In the Heights). The play will run on the San Francisco Playhouse Mainstage from March 16 through April 23, 2022.
Bay Area Playwrights Fest Announces Artists and Added Events
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 13, 2021
The casts for BAPF’s live streamed readings spotlight acclaimed actors including TV/film actor and theatre mainstay Emily Kuroda, known for her role as Mrs. Kim in “Gilmore Girls,” as well as Bay Area theatre veterans Halili Knox, Tasi Alabastro, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro and Michael Ray Wisely, plus many others.
The Dragon Launches Its First-ever Theatrical Universe, PARTY AT THE END OF THE WORLD
by Stephi Wild - Oct 3, 2020
Party at the End of the World, an immersive online experience, draws audience members into a mythical world of Sensations, exploring emotions evoked by today's social and cultural challenges. Under the veil of secrecy, god-like beings clash against one another and humanity to dominate and control the bridge between worlds.
Quantum Dragon Theatre Presents FAHRENHEIT 451
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 12, 2019
Quantum Dragon Theatre, the San Francisco Bay Area's premiere science-fiction/fantasy theatre company, launches its third season with a production of Ray Bradbury's own adaptation of his classic science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451. This flagship production, directed by QDT Artistic Director Sam Tillis, will open at the Potrero Stage-located at 1695 18th St, San Francisco-on Saturday, June 22 at 8 PM. The production, which welcomes Quantum Dragon Theatre into their new theatrical home for this season, will feature the work of Bay Area mainstay actor Dorian Lockett in the role of Fire Chief Beatty.
2018 Marquee Theater Journalists Association Award Winners Announced
by Julie Musbach - Oct 23, 2018
San Francisco North Bay theater artists gathered Monday night at the Juncture Taproom and Lounge in Santa Rosa for the Third Annual Marquee Theater Journalists Association Awards. Seventeen awards were given to local theatre artists and productions whose nominations were culled from the sixty-six Sonoma County productions attended by members from September 1, 2017 through August 31, 2018.