Arts & Entertainment Tony Kushner, Kneehigh Theatre Both Returning for Berkeley Rep's New Season This week, Berkeley Rep announced six of the plays in the upcoming 2013-14 season, and among them will be the acclaimed Tony Kushner play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism
Arts & Entertainment Get Tickets For Berkeley Rep's Annual Gala On Sunday, April 20, the fine folks of Berkeley Repertory Theater cross the bay for their annual fundraising gala, Ovation, at the Four Seasons. If you have the means, it's likely to be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Troublemaker' At Berkeley Rep Over the last couple of decades, Berkeley Rep has become a hotbed for new work, where young playwrights are not only sought out but cultivated, nurtured, and given room to grow. Such was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Chinglish' at Berkeley Rep Are you an American? Do you speak a foreign language with any fluency? Of course not. This assumption forms one of the core jokes in David Henry Hwang's new play Chinglish, which comes
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep Announces Return of Britain's Kneehigh Troupe, Hints at Upcoming Partnership Britain's Kneehigh Theatre Company, which has brought a couple of notable and pretty fantastic shows to the Bay Area in the last three years, will be bringing back their hit The Wild Bride
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Eve Ensler's 'Emotional Creature' at Berkeley Rep The Vagina Monologues. Heard of them? That is the 1996 play that made Eve Ensler famous, and sent her on a tour around the world performing the show herself, as she originally had
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Black N Blue Boys/Broken Men' at Berkeley Rep One-person shows are always a test of both the performer and the audience. Can this actor tell a story and capture an audience's attention for ninety minutes with no help? Can one, as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Red' at Berkeley Rep A perfect play should provoke, inspire, educate, entertain, and delight its audience, and Red is certainly a near-perfect play. Berkeley Rep's latest import from Broadway won the Tony Award for Best Play in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'A Doctor In Spite of Himself' at Berkeley Rep Berkeley Rep: We love you. Seriously, between The Wild Bride and their current mainstage production, A Doctor In Spite of Himself, the theater has truly reaffirmed its role in selecting and producing some
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Ghost Light' At Berkeley Rep We like Jonathan Moscone, and have admired his directing talents often at CalShakes and A.C.T., and this week a play that is very close to his heart and life premiered at
Arts & Entertainment Play About George Moscone, Co-Conceived and Directed by His Son, Begins Previews at Berkeley Rep Tomorrow marks the first preview of Ghost Light, a new play co-conceived and directed by Jonathan Moscone about the life and death of his father, slain San Francisco mayor George Moscone. Moscone is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Wild Bride' At Berkeley Rep Those of you who read these reviews know that our complaints about the lack of imagination and freshness in Bay Area theater, at least among the established companies, go back quite a while.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'How to Write a New Book for the Bible' at Berkeley Rep Some plays are more beguiling and moving than you expect them to be, at least upon hearing the basic outline, and that's definitely the case with Bill Cain's How to Write a New
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup' at Berkeley Rep It's not often in this life that you get to see someone who has EGOT'd (that's someone who's won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, for those who don't watch
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: You know we love Tim Redmond, but we had kind of a hard time following his non-market-based argument about the SF housing market. Can't we get the Freakonomics
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight What happens when nearly 30 local artists create works of art made entirely from reclaimed and recycled materials? Head over tonight (or sometime this month) to find out at the Market Street Gallery
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Monologue at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Never underestimate the power of silly. Besides, not all theater has to be Theater. Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford mix Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett's existential
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone What do Holocaust dramas, hip hop and weddings have to do with each other? Nothing, but we've got all of them crammed into a mere weekend. and Brundibar at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Just
Arts & Entertainment Bright, Indeed Unless you're hitting A.C.T. or Berkeley Rep, it's a bit tough to find good theater to go to on a Wednesday night. Right now (and at least through early April), however,
