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Top Torn Tickets of 2020
’Tis the time for critics of all ilks to release their “end of year” lists. For almost 20 years, this publication has presented a...
North Bay theaters take 16 awards at Bay Area awards ceremony
Thwarted in their attempt to hold their annual spring Awards Gala by the Covid-19 pandemic, the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle took...
Going Dark
Running a theater company anywhere is never easy—but running one in the North Bay has been more challenging than usual for the past few...
Ross Valley Players gives ‘The Glass Menagerie’ a different look
In the pantheon of great American plays, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is surely in the upper tier. Perhaps the most personal of Williams’...
Sting’s overhauled ‘Ship’ lands in San Francisco
The plight of British laborers dealing with the changing economic world in the 1980s has been a major plot element in a number of...
Pop-up theater returns to San Rafael
A vacant downtown San Rafael storefront is being haunted by the Ghosts of Bogotá. They are characters in playwright Diana Burbano’s darkly comic autobiographical...
Days Go By
There is no more quintessential piece of American theater than Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Written in 1938 and set decades earlier, Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Stars come out in latest production
While reward often requires sacrifice, it’s best not to forget that hard work and persistence are also required. That’s one of the takeaways from...
Identity Crisis
It’s Christmas Eve, and a family readies their home for guests. Gifts go under a tree. They prepare food. They plan to attend Mass....
Top Torn Tickets
Compared to neighboring counties, Marin has relatively few regularly producing theater companies. But quantity does not equal quality, as this list proves. Here, in...
