On paper, we'll admit, this was not a play we were necessarily excited to see: multiple lesbian characters, one woman's struggle to choose between a man and another woman set in New York

Following on the success earlier this season of American Idiot (which just premiered on Broadway this week to a NYT accolade of "thrillingly raucous and gorgeously wrought"), Berkeley Rep returns with another rock

Seeing shows at Berkeley Rep is an exciting and revivifying experience, with new works like Green Day's American Idiot and 2008's Passing Strange that essentially do their Broadway tryouts there, and talents like