Stoppard stops by ACT
American Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff didn’t mince words when introducing playwright Tom Stoppard Saturday morning at a Koret Visiting Artist Series event. She called him the...
View ArticleACT announces 2008-09 season
There’s some juicy-good stuff in American Conservatory Theater’s newly announced 2008-09 season. Here’s the rundown: Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard (Sept. 11-Oct. 12) — Surprising no one, especially...
View ArticleTony, Tony, Tony!
Tony Award nominations are out today. Here’s how it shook out: BEST PLAY: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard The Seafarer by Conor McPherson The 39 Steps by Patrick...
View ArticleBay Area Tony connections
It’s all about us, right? Sure the Tony Awards celebrate NEW YORK theater and Broadway and all that jazz, but what about US? Not a problem. We can even make the Tonys Bay Area-centric. It’s a little...
View ArticleACT casts `Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ partners up for `Phedre’
Manoel Felciano, a San Francisco native who used to work at Recycled Records on Haight Street, plays Jan, the central character in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, an ACT production. Photo by Ashley...
View ArticleManoel Felciano aims to make Stoppard `Rock’
Manoel Felciano stars in the ACT production of Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll. Photo by Ashley Forette Photography Manoel Felciano, a San Francisco native, had to play Broadway before he could make his...
View ArticleReview: “Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Opened Sept. 17, 2008 Rene Augesen is Esme and Manoel Felciano is Jan in a scene set at Prague’s John Lennon wall in the American Conservatory Theater production of Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard....
View ArticleTheater by the Bay: Best of 2008
Theatergoing in the San Francisco Bay Area is one of life’s treats. No question about it. If you love theater, this is a wonderland. In this devastating economic climate, may that only hold true for...
View ArticleStunning Arcadia returns to ACT
Julia Coffey (left) is Lady Croom, Nick Gabriel (center) is Captain Brice and Nicholas Pelczar is Ezra Chater in ACT’s production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, directed by Carey Perloff. Below: Ken Ruta...
View ArticleACT attempts to solve Stoppard’s Hard Problem
Psychology student Hilary (Brenda Meaney, second from right) celebrates being published with colleagues from the prestigious Krohl Institute for Brain Science in the West Coast premiere of Tom...
View ArticleLove doth evade Marin’s Shakespeare in Love
Megan Trout is Viola de Lesseps and Adam Magill is Will Shakespeare in the Marin Theatre Company production of Shakespeare in Love, a stage adaptation of the 1998 movie. Photo by Kevin Berne The most...
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