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Opened May 30, 2009 at the Bruns Amphitheater
Alex Morf and Sarah Nealis are the star-crossed young lovers in the California Shakespeare Theater’s season-opening production of Romeo and Juliet. Photos by Kevin Berne
Youthful passion, ancient hate heat up Cal Shakes’ `R&J’««« ½
An explosion of color, violence and surprising beauty, the giant splash of graffiti that dominates [...]
Opened April 1 at American Conservatory Theater
Soldiers rock out with their “guns” out in American Conservatory Theater’s War Music, a world premiere adaptation written and directed Lillian Groag. Photos by Kevin Berne.
Not much music, not much war in ACT’s academic `War Music’««
American Conservatory Theater’s world-premiere War Music is a lot like a college course on [...]
Opened Sept. 17, 2008
Rene Augesen is Esme and Manoel Felciano is Jan in a scene set at Prague’s John Lennon wall in the American Conservatory Theater production of Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard. Photos by Kevin Berne
ACT gives Stoppard’s heavy `Rock’ a mighty roll«««1/2
Rock ‘n’ Roll has a beat – a heartbeat.
Tom Stoppard’s play, [...]
Manoel Felciano, a San Francisco native who used to work at Recycled Records on Haight Street, plays Jan, the central character in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, an ACT production. Photo by Ashley Forrette Photography
With all this buzz about, there must be a new theater season about to start.
First up is news from American Conservatory [...]
Opened April 30 at American Conservatory Theater
Pamela Reed (left) as Ella, chucks artichokes out of the fridge across a prone Jack Willis as Weston and toward Jud Williford as her son, Wesley in ACT’s Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard. Photos by Kevin Berne
Shepard’s revised `Curse’ still packs punchThree stars Let it bleat
Lambs, [...]
Opened March 26, 2008 at American Conservatory Theater
The town’s mayor (Graham Beckel, seated) succumbs to a sneezing fit while accepting the congratulations of the town council (from left: Delia MacDougall, Andrew Hurteau, Dan Hiatt, and Rod Gnapp) on the engagement of his daughter to Khlestakov.
Photos by Kevin Berne
Fantastic cast makes Gogol’s Government worth inspecting
Let me [...]
Opened Aug. 11, 2007, Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda
More love, less triumph in Cal Shakes-San Jose Rep co-production
two [1/2] stars Romance trumps comedy
In the theater, there’s nothing worse than feeling on the outside of a joke. Members of the audience chortle happily while you sit there stony faced and cranky wondering why the onstage antics delight some [...]
Talk to enough actors and you’ll begin to see a trend emerge.
Most of them had a transformative experience as children acting in one particular show. Any guesses?
If you said The Wizard of Oz, you get a gold star _ or maybe a yellow-brick star.
Jud Williford, one of the Bay Area’s best and brightest emerging stars, [...]
(opened Feb. 12, 2007)
Jackson, actors commit American $uicide at Thick House
three stars Zesty satire
If “American Idol” ended each episode with a bullet instead of wild applause, some of us might stop watching. And some of us might start.
We love our reality TV in this country, and, truth be told, we love our violence. So far, [...]
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