New twist on `Oliver’
Get all that merry singing and dancing out of your head. A new theatrical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist arrives at Berkeley Repertory Theatre this weekend, and it’s nothing like the 1963...
View ArticleReview: Charles Dickens’ `Oliver Twist’
Opened May 16 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Roda Theatre Berkeley Rep gives Dickens a dark Twist Three stars Grim ‘n’ grand We’re told early on in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, a bracing stage...
View ArticleTheater moments: Reflections on 2007
I’ve already offered up my Top 10 list of 2007′s best Bay Area theater (see it here). That’s all well and good, but there was way too much good stuff in 2007 to contain in a polite numbered list. What...
View ArticleHumbug! Here we come a-`Carol’-ing
James Carpenter plays Ebenezer Scrooge “dead seriously.” “It’s just like when you play farce,” Carpenter explains. “You don’t play it funny. You have to invest as fully as you can.” Carpenter, 56, one...
View ArticleCountdown to ACT’s `Carol’
James Carpenter (center) is Scrooge in American Conservatory Theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol. Photo by Kevin Berne American Conservatory Theater’s annual production of A Christmas...
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