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'Spring Awakening': What did the critics think?

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Review: The Dinner Party
The universal institution of marriage has always been prominent in Neil Simon's works. In this 2000 play it takes center stage, where it is picked and prodded at, wrenching pain and all.

Review: Lovelace: A Rock Opera
The result is a high-energy, nonstop, rock-'n'-roll trip into a strangely captivating world that's at the same time nightmarish and dreamlike.

Review: Made Me Nuclear
The field is admittedly small, but I can assure you this is the best feel-good one-man cancer-themed operetta you'll see this season.

Review: The Most Mediocre Story Never Told
As writer-performer Jay Sefton points out at the beginning of his engaging vehicle, autobiographical solo shows are often fraught with limitations.

Orange County Register

'Dinner Party' feasts on the agony of divorce
Fullerton staging balances laughs and sentiment.

L.A. Weekly

Theater Reviews: Lions, Spring Awakening, A Man's A Man
Also, Gem of the Ocean, Mary's Wedding and more

Contra Costa Times

Center Rep creates wonderful level of 'Doubt"

TRI ARTS
through nov. 9n "Miss Saigon" — 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, Bankhead Theatre, 2400 First Street, Livermore. A classic love story set in the turmoil of the Vietnam War.

San Francisco Weekly

White Fright
One of the few interesting entries I've read on the otherwise puerile yet popular blog Stuff White People Like is devoted to discussing the...

Rocky Horror Show so good it shuts up its audience
The Rocky Horror Picture Show — released in 1975, dismissed by critics, and revived in the late '70s as a midnight movie — might be...

Blessed Unrest
Central Works' latest collaborative deals with the history and emotions of the environmental movement, as brought to the limelight by Paul...

San Francisco Bay Guardian

The Cutting Ball Theater
GOLDIES 2008 winner: It's often the warped glass that furnishes the truest picture

The Stranger

Theater Review Revue
Schlubs, Sanskrit, and the Rebirth of the American Musical

Theater News
Hell Houses: The Freak-out

The Dissection of the American Mind
Monologues About Frustration and Longing