Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The White Snake' at Berkeley Rep About once a year the Bay Area gets treated to a magical theater gem that transcends time and genre, and this may be it. The latest main stage production at Berkeley Rep, running
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Elektra' at A.C.T. Sophocles' Elektra is a play about outrage, and revenge, and how deep the well of anger can go. ACT's latest production, directed by artistic director Carey Perloff and starring Olympia
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'An Iliad' at Berkeley Rep Homer's Iliad is not the sort of story you expect to find performed on an intimate stage, with no costumes, let alone by a single man. But how can one tell
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Normal Heart' at A.C.T. Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart is an idiosyncratic, complicated play. It is, at once, a time capsule of the terrifying early days of the AIDS crisis in New York, an angry
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'War Horse' at the Curran Theater Broadway comes to San Francisco just a handful of times a year, and one of the biggest hits from the 2011 season in New York was War Horse, an import from London based
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Humor Abuse' at A.C.T. We unfortunately missed Lorenzo Pisoni's acclaimed stage memoir Humor Abuse during its first, sold-out run at A.C.T. this past winter, so we were glad, after all the accolades
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Spunk' at CalShakes The second show of CalShakes' four-play season is often the most adventurous, typically being one of the two non-Shakespeare productions that this always creative company puts on each summer. And
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Tempest' at CalShakes All Shakespeare plays were once done in outdoor theaters in the daylight, but certain works lend themselves best to being done in the open air. Along with A Midsummer Night's Dream,
