Episcopalian minister and Bible scholar Hannah contracts a ghostwriter to help her pen a book about a newly discovered gospel. As they set to work putting her thoughts into print, her troubled gay son, fresh from his latest attempt to find himself, wanders back into her life. When family secrets are revealed, only the intercession of a stranger can help make peace. Learn More
This rarely staged Jacobean tragedy pits the hot-blooded violation of a shocking taboo against the dirty machinations of a corrupt church and state. The result is passionate and poetic, violent and sardonic and a classic that is mordantly fresh. Starring Tony-nominated Michael Hayden and A.C.T.'s René Augesen, winner of a 2007 Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Award, and set to the virtuosic stylings of cellist-singer Bonfire Madigan Shive. Learn More
The Willows Theatre Company presents MuirFest Gala 2008, a musical celebration of Independence Day. The MuirFest Gala includes a live performance by the Diablo Symphony Orchestra and stars of the Willows Theatre in a multimedia musical celebration of our nation, featuring a concert presentation of John Muir's Mountain Days - Contra Costa's original historical outdoor musical. Learn More
California Shakespeare Theater presents Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. A sharply elegant comedy about a Victorian villainess' secret which threatens to destroy a seemingly perfect political marriage, An Ideal Husband features the biting, witty dialogue for which Wilde is justly renowned. Learn More