Chicago A whole lot of local companies are doing Cabaret this spring, so it's nice to see Altarena Playhouse mixing it up a bit by putting on Kander and Ebb's later c-word hit. Chicago was a much slower success, considering that its 1975
The Bacchae Gearing up to tackle more Euripides in April with The Trojan Women at Aurora Theatre (where she was founding artistic director), Barbara Oliver directs Cal students in one of the ancient tragedian's last works, The Bacchae, in which Dionysus opens up a
24-Hour Playfest Woman's Will may be the Bay Area's all-female Shakespeare troupe, but for the tenth year running it also puts on an annual 24-Hour Playfest, which doesn't actually involve an all-day, all-night marathon of play watching. (Leave your sleeping bags at home.) Instead,
Friday Muskogee •Max’s Garage, Nick Gibson, 116 N. Main St., 9 p.m., $5 cover, 682-0500, http://myspace.com/maxsgarage. •Jokers Whistle Stop, Music Solutions, 17 E. Broadway, no cover.
Candide The repeatedly rewritten musical version of Voltaire's satire Candide is an ambitious work for a fledgling theater company to take on, but Virago's bare-bones production largely does justice to Leonard Bernstein's magnificent score. From his lovely tenor voice to his puppy-dog demeanor,
Barefoot in the Park Actors Ensemble of Berkeley opens its 51st season with the ever-popular comedic high jinks of Neil Simon, patron saint of community theaters. In Barefoot in the Park, a just-married couple moves into a Manhattan apartment only to find husband Paul's legal ambitions
Friday Muskogee Boondocks Restaurant, Craig “Cat Daddy” Morgan and Bret Fitzgerald, Hancock Street and Woodland Road, 7 p.m., benefit for Eulice Armstrong.
Brooklyn, New York's Slavic Soul Party returns to town to play the St. Sava Cathedral Hall at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3. Tickets: $10. Garage rockers the Bell Rays play the Grog Shop with Architects and Cobra Verde opening at 9 p.m. Thursday, May 22. Tickets: $12/$10 adv.