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4 days ago | 
pacificsun.com | Beulah Vega
Pinter once said, “Everything is a comedy, until it isn’t.” That certainly holds true for Marin Theatre’s production of Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s Do You Feel Anger? The show runs in Mill Valley through June 29. Set in a debt collection call center, this comedy follows empathy coach Sofia (Sam Jackson) as she tries to teach the dysfunctional team. Met with a bizarre and clueless set of workers, Sofia tries everything in her toolkit to bring some sort of order to the chaos.
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1 week ago | 
pacificsun.com | Beulah Vega
The Marin Shakespeare Company opens its 35th season in the Forest Meadows Amphitheater with a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This tale of young lovers and troublesome fairies runs on the campus of Dominican University in San Rafael through July 13. The production was adapted, directed and choreographed by Bridgette Loriaux and set in 3000 AD. Like some postmodernism, this choice creates a somewhat disjointed show. There are powerful performances here.
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2 weeks ago | 
bohemian.com | Beulah Vega
Neil Simon’s Rumors (now playing in Andrews Hall at the Sonoma Community Center through June 15) is a farce in the traditional way. There’s a staircase, an overly convoluted plot, six doors and plenty of props/set dressings to trip over. Charlie, the vice-mayor of New York, is celebrating his 10th wedding anniversary with his wife, Myra.
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1 month ago | 
pacificsun.com | Beulah Vega
Honestly, I was skeptical of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical.This show has become like Annie, a show every parent has to sit through multiple times, forcingsmiles on our faces. After attending the opening night performance of the Novato Theater Company production now running through June 8, I am happy to report that I was wrong.
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1 month ago | 
pacificsun.com | Beulah Vega
Shakespeare has become almost an entrance exam for the American theater community, but it nearly wasn’t this way. In Shakespeare’s time, publishing scripts simply wasn’t the normal practice. How we came to have the scripts that we do is the subject of Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will. Mary Ann Rodgers directs the Ross Valley Players production running now through June 8 at the Barn Theatre in the Marin Art and Garden Center.
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1 month ago | 
pacificsun.com | Beulah Vega
Boasting an impressive list of mid-’90s music and plenty of geek culture nostalgia, Qui Nguyen’s She Kills Monsters (directed by Lisa Morse, playing at the College of Marin through May 18) is a warm-hearted romp through grief and acceptance. The story follows Agnes (Paige Flaming), trying to find a connection to her deceased sister, Tilly (Arya Safavi), through a custom Dungeons & Dragons campaign written by Tilly.
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2 months ago | 
bohemian.com | Beulah Vega
The plot of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities can be summed up in a single line from the play itself: “Telling the truth is a very expensive hobby.”Ironically, that line is delivered by Silda, the character furthest from the truth and with the least to lose. The entire show is a nesting doll of truths sealed with spite, fear and, ultimately, love. Napa’s Lucky Penny Community Arts Center hosts a Dana Nelson-Isaacs-directed production through May 4.
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2 months ago | 
pacificsun.com | Beulah Vega
One has seen the work of Artemisia Gentileschi, even if they don’t recognize the name. Considered a master of Baroque painting, her works appear in museums worldwide. She worked on commissions for the Medici Court, the Court of Charles I, Philip IV of Spain and many others. The first woman ever to be accepted into the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, she is best known now for being raped. “It’s reductive to say that her art is just about her rape.
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2 months ago | 
pacificsun.com | Beulah Vega
Done so often, just like Mama Mia and Dear Evan Liar-pants, Cabaret is used as the punchline of jokes about musical theater kids. It’s no joke. Based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 semi-autobiographical novel, Goodbye to Berlin, it has always been a play about the seductive powers of excess, comfort and looking the other way. One is meant to feel good about the music until they understand the lyrics, because that is how propaganda operates, infiltrating through the things one loves.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
pacificsun.com | Beulah Vega
There’s a balloon in the backseat of my car. It’s not my balloon; mine was lost during the group picture. It’s my friend’s balloon that I stole. We got the balloons when Mrs. Krishnan (Kalyani Nagarajan), the titular character of Mrs. Krishnan’s Party, was “upstairs” changing and James (Justin Rogers) was out “dealing with the shop.” Considering that the production currently playing on the Boyer stage (literally) at Marin Theatre through March 30 is a two-person play, one may have some questions.
