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Continue reading →: 42nd Street Moon’s ‘Scrooge in Love’ grows larger in the City
If you want a long answer to a simple question, ask Dyan McBride where she works. The longtime Bay Area theatre artist is everywhere. Teaching at San Jose State University in the South Bay on one day. Popping over to Fairfield to teach a class at Solano Community College on…
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Continue reading →: Kinetic Arts production of ‘Inversion: Circus Disobedience’ is more than a circus
Jaron Hollander has a keen sense of what makes something visceral. His latest show at Oakland’s Kinetic Arts Center puts passionate energy at the heart of the production, and their latest piece, entitled “Inversion: Circus Disobedience” running through Dec. 18th, follows the same pattern. Berkeley native Hollander, the Kinetic Arts artistic…
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Continue reading →: Review: Savagery is softened by storytelling in Berkeley Rep’s ‘The Last Tiger in Haiti’
There are many powerful moments in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Last Tiger in Haiti,” but few are more riveting than the moment where the eldest caretaker Max comes back from a bathroom run, now coated in warm, shiny blood. It is a moment of piercing intensity, where the…
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Continue reading →: Bay Area theatre companies spark conversations with ‘Every 28 Hours’
“It’s a shame that our fathers and mothers are killed and we can’t see them anymore.” And on one evening, Zianna Oliphant had enough. If that name doesn’t spring to mind, that’s okay. All you have to know is that this 9-year-old little girl channeled every inch of fear, anxiety…
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Continue reading →: Hedwig and Hall are a match made in rock and roll Heaven.
It’s been one helluva year for San Francisco native Lena Hall. She was part of an amazing run in Broadway’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” where Hall played loyal husband Yitzhak, a role that garnered her a Tony Award. And there is the lineup of her wives over that year…
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Continue reading →: Review: Crowded Fire’s ‘The Shipment’ is effectively uncomfortable
I’m not sure what was more disturbing when watching Crowded Fire Theater’s production of “The Shipment.” First of all, there’s a comedian that delves into every offensive things known to man, with very few laughs at his behest. He dropped the bomb on just about every taboo out there. There…
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Continue reading →: Saraf blends two political worlds in Naatak’s ‘Mr. India’
A simple tea seller. It is this half-blind everyman who finds himself in the middle of a political storm, a working-class citizen who is just moments away from becoming the most important political figure in a vast country of more than 1.2 billion people. Politics in India are as large…
David John Chávez
Bay Area theater critic/reporter, Executive Chair – American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association, Two-time Pulitzer Prize for Drama jurist (’22-’23). Follow me on socials and say hi! #hellatheatre
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