By allowing us to better understand others, theater helps us understand ourselves. Lettie, a play that quickly draws you in and keeps your curiosity stimulated throughout intensifies our awareness of released felons; an invisible class of people who is as marginalized as it is huge. A commissioned work for Victory Gardens by playwright Boo Killebrew, …
Sometimes Check Please comes through in a big way and introduces you to a restaurant that lives up to the all the gushing. Sitting flush on the sidewalk on Belmont just east California, Pisolino Italian Caffe’s got that super urban neighborhood feel; hard edges on the outside and soft and pretty on the inside. Although …
Opening its new season with William Inge’s Natural Affection, Eclipse Theatre reintroduces us to the bold brilliance of one of the country’s most intrepid playwrights. Writing in the 50’s and 60’s, his stories never shy away from the pain in life and are willing to expose those deep hurts that shape lives for better or …
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Something about the Goodman’s production of An Enemy of the People seems as intent on exposing the cost of extreme naiveté as it is to brandish a fallacy. The fallacy is that the majority is always right. Adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play of the same name, The Goodman successfully shows how relevant Ibsen’s play …
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We expected a level of affectation. Some kind of reputational gloat. Both were completely not present. Everything at Boka was unassuming and regular. Busy night, lots of people, restrained class in the midst of bustle. And an added surprise at the host stand. Unconventional beauty that was also pleasant. All adventures should cast off so …