By Pat Craig Mercury News Correspondent September 8th, 2010 The play is good, really good, right from the beginning. "Anton in Show Business" is a comedy, a prickly, pointed, take-no-prisoners comedy about theatre. And, to me, anyway, watching it has the same exhilarating feel as driving too fast down...
Robert Hurwitt, Chronicle Theatre Critic San Francisco Chronicle September 8, 2010 With any luck, a theatre may finally grow in downtown Oakland. Why the city hasn't been able to support a professional theatre company has been one of the Bay Area's cultural ...
East Bay Express By Rachel Swan Self-irony abounds in the company's latest production. Anton in Show Business runs through September 26 at the Marion E. Greene Black Box Theatre (531 19th St., Oakland). $15-$30. TheatreFirst.com Theatre is sure a dodgy enterprise, actress Amaka Izuchi assures in the opening monologue...
By George Heymont My Cultural Landscape September 6, 2010 Those familiar with Slings and Arrows, the hilarious Canadian television series that took place at The New Burbage Festival (a fictional nonprofit Shakespeare festival experiencing financial problems while being haunted by the ghost of the company's...
May 26 – June 19, 2011 BAY AREA PREMIERE!! Written by Julie Marie Myatt Directed by Domenique Lozano After losing a leg in the Iraq war, combat veteran Jenny Sutter returns to California with a sense that she no longer belongs. She finds herself in a makeshift community of...
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...
Join us for another exciting three-show season featuring a Bay Area premiere, an American classic, and a hilarious contemporary comedy! Anton In Show Business Written by Jane Martin Directed by Michael Storm September 2 – September 26, 2010 A madcap comedic romp following the trials and tribulations of three ...
By Pat Craig Correspondent , The Oakland Tribune 06/16/2010 05:29:46 PM PDT "The Drawer Boy," from the title on down, is your basic shaggy Canadian play, complete with Toronto jokes and a plot that catches you like a sucker punch in a dark barroom. Canadian Michael Healey's play gets...
Oakland's Arts District Is on Its Way Up, Again by Rachel Swan Most Oakland boosters now live by the credo that Uptown is the new downtown, and each year it carries more weight. "Uptown Unveiled" allowed the city to applaud itself last June, with a street fair...
by Angela Woodall Posted: 01/26/2010 08:36:22 PM PST Updated: 01/26/2010 11:32:25 PM PST "Heads. Heads. Heads." So begins "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," playwright Tom Stoppard's contemplation on the irrationality of life and the role we play in it, which opened Saturday at TheatreFIRST. Act 1 begins with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...
