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Review: Cute with Chris: Live
Who hasn't encountered the egg-on-the-face situation in which someone tries to wholeheartedly recount a funny anecdote that lands with a thud?

Review: Money Shot
Daniel Keleher's play is set in a trash-littered apartment, where four guys are gathered to make a porn video they hope will make their fortunes.

Review: Salvage
Diane Glancy's exploration of a dysfunctional family's final disintegration into the desert wind — set in motion by a car accident — is an intriguing concept that loses energy quickly.

TheaterTimes

Review: The Heiress

Review: Our Town

Contra Costa Times

Mary Zimmerman returns to Berkeley Rep for 'Arabian Nights"
Acclaimed director of 'Argonautika' adapts tales of 1,001 nights legend; CC Civic Theatre fishes for laughs with 'Greater Tuna."

San Francisco Weekly

Common Ground
Most people regard the notion that someone can die from a broken heart with skepticism, but artists tend to be more open-minded about the idea....

Shining City
A conventional ghost story would've been far less unsettling. Over the course of a few loosely plotted scenes, Shining City offers frightening...

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San Francisco Bay Guardian

Rap-erations
Crisscrossing race and identity in Angry Black White Boy

Sacramento Bee

Theater exec Eckern, caught in Prop. 8 flap, resigns

Theater felt growing pressure before artistic director quit

San Diego Union-Tribune

'You have to believe this ridiculous story absolutely'
Even Kubla Khan should be able to get in the groove with Playhouse's loopy, earnest 'Xanadu'

Seattle Weekly

boom Time
In our current optimistic national mood, what's going to happen to apocalyptic literature? Do we really want a downer, another Children of Men or...

The Stranger

The Sincerest Form of Battery
Two Shakespeare Productions, One Fringe and One Pro