ACT's deep dive into Albee's <i>Seascape</i>
American Conservatory ..., Edward Albee, Ellen McLaughlin, James Carpenter, local theater, Pam MacKinnon, theater review American Conservatory ..., Edward Albee, Ellen McLaughlin, James Carpenter, local theater, Pam MacKinnon, theater review

ACT's deep dive into Albee's Seascape

As directing debuts go, Pam MacKinnon's for American Conservatory Theater is pretty auspicious. Her production of Seascape by Edward Albee is her first on the Geary Theater stage since taking over as artistic director last year. A Tony Award-winner (for Albee's 2012 revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) who has worked on other Bay Area stages (Berkeley Rep, Magic), MacKinnon seems to have landed quite comfortably in the world of institutional regional theater.

Read More
Annie Smart, Berkeley Repertory The..., Charles Shaw Robinson, Ellen McLaughlin, Kathleen Chalfant, Les Waters, local theater, plays, Sarah Ruhl, theater review Annie Smart, Berkeley Repertory The..., Charles Shaw Robinson, Ellen McLaughlin, Kathleen Chalfant, Les Waters, local theater, plays, Sarah Ruhl, theater review

Ruhl peters out in Berkeley Rep's For Peter Pan

Sarah Ruhl is a brilliant writer capable of intellectual heights and emotional depths. Her latest play, For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, now at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Roda Theatre, displays few of those qualities.

Paired with director Les Waters with whom she worked so memorably on Eurydice and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) at Berkeley Rep, Ruhl is working in mysterious ways here.

Read More