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'4000 Miles' in 90 minutes
'Black Watch' Reveals War is Hellish, and Aesthetically Dynamic
'Ching Chong Chinaman' at City Lights
'Endgame' and 'Play' at A.C.T.
'Falling Apart' Gracefully with Joe Goode
'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' Takes a Comic-Book Look at Romcom Tropes
'Our Practical Heaven' Strains Towards Chekhovian Family Drama, But Mostly it Just Strains
'The Happy Ones' Get a Rude Awakening at Magic Theatre
'War Horse' at SF's Curran Theater
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A.C.T.'s Phèdre a Hot Mess
The Abduction from the Seraglio
African-American 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' Makes it Click
Aiming For Political Satire, 'Dead Metaphor' Misfires
Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
All's Well That Ends Well
Altar Boyz is Flashy Fun and Not Much More
Always... Patsy Cline
America, the Heartbroken
American Idiot
Anna Deavere Smith, Human Tape-Recorder Extraordinaire
Anton in Show Business at the Dragon
The Arabian Nights
Argonautika
Aurora Theatre Company is on Fire with 'The Arsonists'
Avenue Q
Avenue Q at The Orpheum
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Bach at Leipzig
Bad Habits at Theatre Rhinoceros
Bay One Acts Festival
Berkeley Rep's "Ruined" Is About Women's Bodies, the Battlefield of the War in the Congo
Berkeley Rep's 'Troublemaker' Is a Rock-'Em, Sock-'Em Riot
Big Death & Little Death
Big Pharma
Bindlestiff's 'Kind of Sad Love Story' is Just What it Says it Is
Blasted at the Mosser Hotel
Breaking the Code
The Brothers Size at Magic Theatre
Burn This
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Cabaret at the SF Playhouse
Caligari
Center REP's 'Pilgrims Musa and Sheri' Is an All-American Romance
Charlie Varon's 'FWD: Life Gone Viral:' RE: When Big Things Happen to Little People
The Choppy Voyage of 'Pericles' Finds Safe Harbor at Berkeley Rep
ChoreoFest
A Chorus Line
Cirque du Soleil's Ovo
Cirque du Soleil: Kooza
A Civil War Christmas at TheatreWorks
Clue at Boxcar Theatre
Clybourne Park at A.C.T.
The Cold War Between the Sexes: Neil LaBute's 'reasons to be pretty'
Compleat Female Stage Beauty at City Lights
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Cowboy Mouth
The Cutting Ball Theater: AvantGardARAMA
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A Family Crucible At Summer Camp in Anna Ziegler's 'Another Way Home'
Famous Last Words
Fela! Is That Rare Broadway Musical That Earns Its Exclamation Point
Flying Karamazovs Remember When They Used to Juggle
The Forest War
Frank Langella's Cyrano at City Lights
From Puerto Rico To Berkeley Rep, Rita Moreno Stars In Her Own Life
Frozen
Fukú Adaptationus: Campo Santo Acts Out Oscar Wao
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, at City Lights
Lend Me a Tenor at the Livermore Shakespeare Festival
Life During Wartime Is Nasty, Brutish And Not Especially Short
Life Isn't Easy for 19th Century Black Lesbians...or Is It?
The Lion in Winter at Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
The Listener
Love in American Times at San Jose Rep
Lysistrata at City Lights
The Lysistrata Project
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The Magic Flute
Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet at A.C.T.
Marga Gomez Is Not Getting Any Younger
Memory Gets Muddy in Magic Theatre's 'Se Llama Cristina'
Men Think They are Better Than Grass
Metamorphosis at Aurora Theatre
The Mind of Blowdryer
Monster in the Dark
More Pixels Than Pixie Dust in this Peter Pan Techno-Spectacle
Mortified
Mr. Fujiyama's Electric Beach
Mugwumpin's 'Great Big Also' Prepares Us for a Brave New World
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O Lovely Glowworm, or Scenes of Great Beauty
Oakland Opera Theater: Queenie Pie
Oh, Naughty Muppets. What Would Jim Henson Think of You Now?
On the Waterfront at San Jose Stage
Opera San José: Rigoletto
Oriana the Giant Slayer: Fallaci the Rogue Journalist Gets Grilled in a New Play
Orpheus in the Underworld
Othello: Die Trying
Our Breath Is Thin As a Hummingbird's Spine
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Passing Strange
Performance Sorceress Mary Zimmerman Spins 'The White Snake'
Permanent Collection
Pick Up Ax
The Pillowman
Pina Bausch: Ten Chi
A Play That Will Change Your Life, at the SHN Curran
The Producers at Foothill Musical Theatre
Psychotic Mother Belts It Out, Wins Tony. It's Next to Normal.
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Samantha Chanse: Lydia's Funeral Video
San Francisco Ballet at 75
Scandalous? (P)Shaw!
SF Ballet at 75: Program Four
SF Jazz Festival: Kamikaze Ground Crew
SF Mime Troupe Nibbles the Hand That Feeds It
SF Opera: Das Rheingold
The Shaker Chair at the Pear Avenue Theatre
Shotgun Players Sets Sail from 'Voyage' to 'Shipwreck' in Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia'
So Much For Tradition. Harvey Fierstein Stars in Fiddler On The Roof.
SoWat Now! Festival of Contemporary Performance
Speed-the-Plow at the Pear
Spoiler Alert! The Playwright Does Not Kill Himself
Super Vision
Superior Donuts at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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Take Me Out
Tales of the City at A.C.T.
Te Adoro West Side Story
Theater Revived the Radio Star?
Theatre of Yugen: Noh Pressure Cooker
TheatreWorks' Caroline, or Change
There IS a Place for Us -- In the Heights is an "Up Side Story"
They Brought It.
They Can't Go On. But They Go On And On.
This May Feel a Little Funny
The Three Musketeers at City Lights
Tiny Kushner at the Berkeley Rep
Tinyard Hill
Tis Pity She's a Whore
Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll
Too Cool by Half: 'The Wild Bride' is Cluttered with Creativity
The Tosca Project
Tourette's Without Regrets
Tragedy: A Tragedy
The Trojan War: This Time It's Personal
True West
Turn of the Screw
Twelfth Night
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Walk a Mile in Her Heels: Persepolis, Texas Maps the Swampland of Identity
The Way of the World
When Mimes Talk
Word for Word: Angel Face
Word for Word: Sonny's Blues
Word for Word: Strangers We Know
Working for the Mouse at the Exit Theatre
World Premiere of Lolita Roadtrip a Rough Ride
Wrong Words Make Us Laugh at Superpowers in David Henry Hwang's 'Chinglish'
