Leo Stutzin

Imagine Don Juan as a buffoon, a hapless captive of his own lust, condemned to pursue and bed...

There were "good old days," weren't there? Times before anyone had coined the term "24/7,"...

"What do you see?"

The question is the first line in John Logan's Red, a highly fictionalized portrait of the artist Mark Rothko, which is receiving a riveting...

Portraiture has always been the most ubiquitous genre of photography. Sometimes it results in art; most often it doesn't. But among contemporary portrait photographers who have earned wide respect as artists, one thread frequently stands...

How do you capture the chaos, anguish and tragedy of civil war, as well as its impact on individuals, within the limited...

In 1666 Moliere dashed off A Doctor in Spite of Himself in a few days to compensate for the stony reception that had just greeted The Misanthrope. The...

By clinical definition, a lack of empathy is one of the crucial traits found in people afflicted with Asperger's syndrome. In Annie Baker's fiercely funny Body Awareness, which...

Lorenzo Pisoni was only 2 years old when he started making audiences laugh, doing spontaneous walk-ons during intermissions of San Franciscoʼs tiny but audacious Pickle Family Circus. Thirty-three years later heʼs still bringing down packed houses with Pickle Family routines, but also doing much more.

In Humor Abuse, which opened...

The prelude to Berkeley Rep's "Ghost Light" is cheerfully tranquil; as the audience drifts in, a teen-aged boy lies on a brightly colored quilt at center stage, occasionally glancing at TV sets that are skipping through clips from shows and commercials that aired in the 1970s. But anyone who has...

BY LEO STUZIN
BERKELEY -- Enchantment is a state usually reserved for the very young, and prompted by encounters with experiences new and magical. Carrying adults to that exalted realm, despite all our inevitable encounters with deception and disillusionment, is a far tougher task.

It's the task that a...