(By Rachel Swan) TheatreFIRST czar Michael Storm wrote in a recent email: "You will NOT see this from me again. Mark my words." He was responding to a reviewer's genuine adulation ("I have no idea how you balance artistic directing with acting, but I'm endlessly impressed"). It...
* Artistic Director's Corner We are EXTREMELY proud to announce that we have secured the rights to present the Professional Bay Area Premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. This is truly an amazing opportunity and honor for TheatreFIRST. Securing this play...
This is the 20th Anniversary of Mr. Mamet’s seminal work about higher education, sexual politics and power in America. Oleanna runs April 21 – May 13, 2012, at the Berkeley City Club Oleanna, a powerful two-character drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, is TheatreFIRST’s initial...
* Artistic Director's Corner I avoided Oleanna for 15 years. People said things about the play that made me think I wouldn’t be interested in it. Then, the summer before last, I read the play. And read it over and over again. At first, I found myself...
The show opens May 27th at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., May 1, 2011 – TheatreFIRST today announced that award-winning playwright Julie Marie Myatt will attend the opening weekend...
The third show of TheatreFIRST’S 10/11 season will open May 27th at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., April 1, 2011 – TheatreFIRST today announced that Domenique Lozano will direct...
The second show of TheatreFIRST’s 10/11 season will open January 28 at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., December 21, 2010 -- Michael Barrett Austin and Danielle Levin lead an...
The second show of TheatreFIRST’S 10/11 season will open January 28 at The Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre, 531 19th Street, on the ground floor of The Fox Oakland Building. Oakland, Calif., November 23, 2010 Renowned Bay Area director Jon Tracy will direct TheatreFIRST's...
TheatreFIRST, Oakland's resident professional theatre company, today announced its 2010-2011 season featuring a contemporary comedy steeped in Russian theatre history, a Tony Award-winning theatrical version of a classic American novel, and the Bay Area premiere of the story of a wounded Marine returning to her...
The Drawer Boy, will feature two of the most prominent Bay Area Actors: Howard Swain and Warren David Keith Oakland, Calif. – Warren David Keith, an accomplished stage and screen actor with extensive Bay Area theatre credits and roles in major motion pictures such as the...