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Many theater companies take a break during the summer months and send audiences into the great outdoors for some Shakespeare or Mime Troupe action.
But San Jose Repertory Theatre is launching what it calls a “Summer Blockbuster Series.”
The two-show series opens July 7 with Forbidden Broadway — 25th Anniversary Tour. Gerard Allessandrini’s legendary revue that lampoons [...]
We already knew that Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical solo show, Wishful Drinking, was headed to Broadway. What we didn’t know was that Fisher will be Drinking at Berkeley Repertory Theatre before heading for New York.
Wishful Drinking, a humorous re-telling of Fisher’s celebrity upbringing as the spawn of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher as well her life [...]
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Photo by the LA Times
Lynn Nottage’s play Ruined, inspired by Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
The play, about a Congolese brothel run by a woman named Mama Nadi, is about a country torn apart by civil war and about a woman who is [...]
San Jose Repertory Theatre announced today that Rick Lombardo of Boston’s New Repertory Theatre will be the company’s next artistic director, succeeding the Rep’s long-time director, Timothy Near.
According to a press release, the six-month nationwide search landed on Lombardo for “his combination of artistic excellence, programming savvy and leadership abilities.”
“In Rick Lombardo we have [...]
The force is most certainly with her.
Carrie Fisher, fresh from her hit Berkeley Repertory Theatre show Wishful Drinking, a one-woman autobiographical play, is taking the show on the road. And no wonder: in 9 1/2 weeks, the show took in $1.3 million.
Producer Jonathan Reinis is sending Wishful across the country. The first stop isn’t so [...]
Time to start thinking about those season tickets — or at least cherry picking which shows you’re going to make a point of seeing next season.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s 2008-09 season was announced this week. Here’s how it shapes up.
Yellowjackets by Itamar Moses (left) — Berkeley native writes about Berkeley High School and the student [...]
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 [...]
Last week, in honor of Thanksgiving, the critics of ANG Newspapers gathered an assortment of the year’s turkeys. Being one who prefers positive over the negative, I offer my turkeys and promise that the coming weeks will be full of the bests.
Golden Turkey Awards: Theater
I’m happy to report that there were far more good shows [...]
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