Playwright Sarah Ruhl has become a favorite at Berkeley Rep over the past decade, beginning with a production of her play Eurydice in 2004. That play, which imagined an Alice in Wonderland-like underworld,

There is more to the art of clowning than just makeup and slapstick, and no one can teach that lesson better than actor and professional stage devourer Steven Epp and his director and

It's been a good year for Bay Area theater overall, with some stellar productions like SHN's Anything Goes, Black Watch from A.C.T. and the National Theater of Scotland, and No Man's

Let's just say up front that I'm a whore for references. Toss a few movie lines into a conversation, namedrop some playwrights, or expound upon 80s television shows, and I'm putty in your

Chekhov plays all have certain themes and elements in common: love of work, unrequited love, suffering, aging, adultery, the etiquette of dealing with servants, educated people bored by the banalities of their circumstance.

We knew from the title we weren't likely in for a cheery good time, but we went into Berkeley Rep's newest production, Ruined, without having read anything about it. The subject turns out

In theory, we enjoy one-person shows. A charismatic performer, alone on a stage, speaking truths and telling good stories, can captivate an audience in a way that multi-person performances can't. All you have