Arts & Entertainment Review: Cal Shakes, 50, opens gender-bending ‘As You Like It’ in Orinda By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | September 16, 2024 Performances continue through September 29 at Bruns Amphitheater in Orinda.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Five Betties stage riotous play-within-a-play in Shotgun Players’ fun ‘Collective Rage’ By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | August 9, 2024 A subversively clever play about five women struggling to find meaning and love runs through August 24 at Ashby Stage in Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Easy laughs, solid comedians in ‘Best of The Second City’ at Berkeley Rep By Jean Schiffman, Bay City News | July 18, 2024 The show runs through July 28 at the Rep's Roda Theatre.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Aurora Theatre’s ‘Lifespan of a Fact’ amusingly, pointedly explores the validity of truth By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | June 27, 2024 Funny, provocative and deeply touching, the play runs through July 21 at the Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Berkeley Rep’s ‘Mother Road’ a spellbinding drama about Steinbeck’s Joad family in the modern world By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | June 24, 2024 The play runs through July 21.
Arts & Entertainment Review: ACT’s ‘Lehman Trilogy’ a perfectly dazzling portrait of a family and America By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | May 30, 2024 Sam Mendes’ production of the Tony Award-winning hit plays through June 23 at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Review: We Players bring wacky, whimsical ‘Adventures with Alice’ back to Golden Gate Park By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | May 16, 2024 Witty site-specific show is for kids and adults alike who are guided from scene to scene starting near Sprekels Lake.
Arts & Entertainment Review: ‘Extreme Acts’ explores why people choose to live on the edge By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | May 14, 2024 Through June 2 at The Marsh in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Rousing, sensitive ‘Blue Door’ details a Black man’s struggles By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | April 30, 2024 Aurora Theatre’s production of Tanya Barfield’s beautiful, wrenching drama is a must-see.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Returning to Haifa’ offers personal views of Jews, Palestinians in conflict By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | April 25, 2024 The play is adapted by Naomi Wallace and Ismail Khalidi from the 1969 novella by Ghassan Kanafani.