Robert Hurwitt, Chronicle Theatre Critic. Monday, May 30, 2011. "Give me something to believe in," the wounded soldier says she used to cry as a child at night, as she searched for God in the cracks in the ceiling of her Barstow home. It's the degree to...
Three years ago, when her play received its world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Julie Marie Myatt explained that: "I began writing Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter in 2006, with several questions in mind: questions that I still have, that have not been answered as...
With the endgame in sight, TheatreFIRST imagines a veteran's homecoming. By Rachel Swan. With the Iraq War winding down, it's likely we'll see a whole spate of theatrical works about veterans coming home. Many of them will fall in the vein of Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, a...
* Artistic Director's Corner Sadly, we can’t really say anything more about the OSA situation because we are still figuring out what we are going to do about it all. But I did want to let you know what the situation is and that we will keep...
A play with music about Georgia O'Keefe. by Sharmon J. Hilfinger. with music by Joan McMillen. A co-production with the BootStrap Theatre Foundation. Directed by Jake Margolin. October 8-30, 2011. Thursday, 7:30PM. Friday/Saturday, 8PM. Sunday, 5PM. Hanging Georgia, written by Sharmon J. Hilfinger, tells the story of Georgia O’Keeffe’s love relationship and marriage...
* Artistic Director's Corner It has truly been an interesting year. About six weeks before we were going to set our schedule for next year, OSA informed us that they would not be able to honor the third year of our signed contract. Obviously, ...
* Artistic Director's Corner The Search for Space Continues...
By Pat Craig Contra Costa Times Correspondent AT TIMES, TheatreFirst's production of "Grapes of Wrath" has the rhythm and feel of a jazz piece -- not in the music, although there's plenty of that, but in the music of the words and how they're...
* Artistic Director's Corner This month (of course) is about our next production, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati. The design team has done a wonderful job and watching the director, cast and crew work in the Black Box gets me more and...
January 27 – February 20, 2011 Based on the novel by John Steinbeck Adapted by Frank Galati Directed by Jon Tracy A Tony Award-winning theatrical version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about migrant farm workers searching for the American Dream in California. [nggallery id=23]...