The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

A couple of Thursdays ago I was in Berkeley seeing a play with an all-female cast and then the Tuesday after I was back in Berkeley seeing ...

I've started going to the Aurora Theater pretty regularly, but I decided to skip Annie Baker’s Body Awareness , because I have minimal...

The Aurora Theater is currently presenting The Soldier’s Tale by Stravinsky, a dark little fable brightly told about a soldier who foolishl...

I’m not a big Edward Albee fan, but I was tempted by Aurora Theater ’s preview sale ($25 tickets) and 7:00 start time last Tuesday and I wen...

I re-entered the insect world a couple of days after The Insect Play when I went to Aurora Theater ’s production of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, ...

I had been undecided about going to Aurora Theater’s production of Tennessee Williams's Eccentricities of a Nightingale, but then they c...

I went to the Aurora Theater’s recent production of Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman (in a new version by David Eldridge), because how many chan...

April 8, 10, 11, and 13, Nicholas McGegan leads Philharmonia Baroque in Handel’s great opera, Orlando (one of the first operas I ever saw !...

Strindberg’s Miss Julie is one of those odd gaps in not only my play-going, but my play-reading, so off I went to the Aurora Theatre’s recen...

Remember back in the disastrous last years of the Vietnam War, when theater companies around the country dusted off The Trojan Women? Sadly,...

The hilarity ensues immediately once you buy a ticket for Sex, the Mae West play which has been making the national rounds: do you write “Se...

I’ve seen a number of plays this year that I had first seen on stage years ago in Boston. This is much less common in theaters where actors ...

Last September I saw the Aurora Theatre’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s Salome. It was like a doughnut, rich and delicious and probably not as he...

I saw Ibsen's The Master Builder on March 1, at the Aurora Theater in Berkeley. This was only the second time I'd been there; I was ...