42nd Street Moon, Aaron Loeb, Abigail Bengson, American Conservatory ..., Aurora Theatre Company, Bay Area Cabaret, Berkeley Repertory The..., Chita Rivera, Christopher Chen, D-W- Jacobs, Feinstein's at the Nikko, Forbidden Broadway, Impact Theatre, Jonathan Moscone, Jonathan Tolins, Just Theater, Liesl Tommy, Lorraine Hansberry, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Michael Urie, musicals, Nicholas Pelczar, R- Buckminster Fuller, Ron Campbell, San Francisco Playhouse, San Jose Rep, Shaun Bengson, Stacy Ross, Tony Kushner, UNIVERSES 42nd Street Moon, Aaron Loeb, Abigail Bengson, American Conservatory ..., Aurora Theatre Company, Bay Area Cabaret, Berkeley Repertory The..., Chita Rivera, Christopher Chen, D-W- Jacobs, Feinstein's at the Nikko, Forbidden Broadway, Impact Theatre, Jonathan Moscone, Jonathan Tolins, Just Theater, Liesl Tommy, Lorraine Hansberry, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Michael Urie, musicals, Nicholas Pelczar, R- Buckminster Fuller, Ron Campbell, San Francisco Playhouse, San Jose Rep, Shaun Bengson, Stacy Ross, Tony Kushner, UNIVERSES

A hitch in the getalong: Looking back at 2014's best

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Double good, double fun in Cal Shakes' Comedy

A visiting stranger makes a keen observation: "Your town is troubled with unruly boys." The trouble is, he ends up being one of the unruly boys, and that's the fun of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, a masterfully chaotic comedy now at California Shakespeare Theater's Bruns Amphitheater.

As farces go, this Comedy requires us to believe that two sets of not-so-bright twins with the same names – the upper-class set is called Antipholus, the slave set is called Dromio – cause confusion, consternation and furious frustration when roaming the streets of Ephesus of the same day. Once over that hump (and Shakespeare makes it pretty easy), the farce clicks along like a finely tuned laugh machine until brothers are reunited, a father's search is fulfilled and a courtesan gets her diamond ring back.

Director Aaron Posner strikes the right tone from the start...

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Bucky's back and better than ever

I've probably seen D.W. Jacobs' R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe five times now, and I get something new out of it every time. I saw the one-man show starring the extraordinary Ron Campbell about 14 years ago when it opened in San Francisco at Theatre Artaud. That production ran for over a year, went on tour, then came back about a year later. I thought I might get weary of Bucky and his fascinations, but that was never the case.

Now History/Mystery is back...

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