by Beulah F. Vega San Francisco’s Magic Theatre is just a quick hop over the Golden Gate and should be on the radar of every North Bay theatre lover. Their current production of Luis Alfaro’s Aztlán, which they commissioned, has had its run extended through July 20. Kinan Valdez directs the story which flits between…
by Beulah F. Vega 6th Street Playhouse, in collaboration with the Jacobethan Theater Workshop, is presenting a ‘stripped down’ version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet on their Monroe Stage through Saturday, June 21. For those unfamiliar with the Jacobethan Theater Workshop, it’s the company that for the last few years has produced “Shakespeare in the Parking…
by Beulah F. Vega First things first. Is The Epic of Gilgamesh (currently playing at Marin Shakespeare Company’s downtown theater through Feb. 23) really the oldest story ever written? That’s a question for the philologists to argue (but probably not). It’s the tale of Gilgamesh, the first king of Uruk, who was a tyrant until…
By Beulah F. Vega When playwright Will Arbery was asked what his play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was about, he had a simple answer: “Listening.” Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre has a production closing Saturday, September 21 with a 1:00 pm matinee performance at The California. Set in 2017 soon after the election of…
Cinnabar Theater hosted one of five productions that opened in the North Bay last weekend. Dream Hou$e, by Eliana Pipes, may be the least well-known among those five, but it is a show that should be seen. The production runs in Petaluma through February 25. Sisters Julia and Patricia have agreed to sell their mother’s…
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