Unorganized crime has never been funnier than in Den of Thieves at SF Playhouse. But first, some advice: any time a gun-toting slickster with “Flaco” tattooed on his forearm and a girlfriend named Boochie tells you a job ...

In Sunsets and Margaritas by playwright José Cruz González, a Latino family faces just about every challenge life can throw their way: aging, regret, birth, despair. Oh, plus a panic attack or two thrown in for good measure.

But the Serrano’s benefit ...

Given that small theater companies come and go faster than restaurants on Castro Street in Mountain View, the tenth anniversary of the Dragon is cause for celebration indeed.   After shepherding the company through six years of a quasi-nomadic ...

Things aren’t always what they seem.

A photographer disagrees. Grumbling, he notes that most people are what they seem. Such a disappointment that is.

If disappointment is evaluated using this criteria, then Naomi Iizuka, in her World Premiere of Concerning ...

I admit I’m a little slow on this one. Despite my early adopter DNA and love for all things digital, I have not yet seen Avatar; and I’ve been upfront about my misgivings for 3D technology in general ...

In 1968 Russian tanks rolled through the streets of Prague and Jan Nemec was in the streets filming. The Ferrari Dino Girl tells the dramatic story of how those shots were made, and the harrowing trip he and ...

The Words on Plays synopsis I read in the passenger seat by a dimly lit book light did not prepare me for what transpired on stage at A.C.T.’s World Premiere of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Playwright Bertolt Brecht’s creation ...

A Fight Club for voyeurs, Peepers takes us into the secret world of roof-top hopping “peepers,” where we join alongside a rag-tag group armed with binoculars and walkie-talkies looking for excitement in other people’s windows. Fraternizing in the ...

Thea (Paprika Steen) can only seem to find acceptance and respect on the stage. Off it, her life is unraveling. She’s a recovering alcoholic out of rehab, her husband left with the two boys, and she has no ...

What if you lived your entire life in one day? And you’d have, but one time, to enjoy each moment: the first kiss, going to school, growing up,  making love. In Marc de Cloe’s Life in One Day, ...

You know you’re in trouble when a relentless drug addiction and a discovered stash of dirty money are the least of your problems. Oh, yes, what to do with the body?

In Kill the Habit that becomes the question ...

What is it about great European indies that make them so endlessly fascinating and watchable? The Bone Man is another example, and I think it’ll be a festival favorite at Cinequest.

It’s two hours of terrific entertainment. It kept ...

Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll is an epic, historical journey that explores the impact of rock and roll on the democratic movement in Eastern Block Czechoslovakia from the Spring of 1968 to the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

Even though ...