11+ hour, 31+ min ago  (398+ words) It's'normal to go to the San Francisco Mime Troupe's annual political-musical comedy expecting to laugh.'The longtime'leftist Troupe presents a brand-new original show every year, free, in Bay Area parks and beyond, poking fun at the bad guys and urging…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (240+ words) Both stories'Bradbury's written in 1950, Vonnegut's in 1970, according to program notes'imagine a world of a degraded future." Part of the house is set aside for the nursery, in which the children (played by Christian Jimenez and Hannah Mae Sturges as the…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (188+ words) Local News Matters Shotgun Players'Continuity," a comedy dressed in heavy gear by Bess Wohlonstage in Berkeley, takes place on a bed of ice in the New Mexico desert. The ice isactually Styrofoam; it"spart of a movie set for a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (24+ words) If "Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really" is what the title claims it to be, we women are in trouble. Surely our fantasies are more...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (179+ words) There's no shortage of memorable dysfunctional families in American theater, including the Kurnitz clan from Neil Simon's 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning dramedy "Lost in Yonkers." In program notes, director Nancy Carlin writes, "I love this play with all my heart and funny…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (354+ words) Review: Masquers Playhouse's "Improbable Fiction' hits funny bone hard'Local News Matters Ensure the future of local Bay Area News by becoming a Local News Matters member today. Thanks for your contribution! - Weekly News The region's top news headlines, delivered Mondays…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (389+ words) Local News Matters Ensure the future of local Bay Area News by becoming a Local News Matters member today. Thanks for your contribution! - Weekly News The region's top news headlines, delivered Mondays - Arts & Entertainment The best of weekend arts and…...