If you go to one of the recital neighborhood Nutcrackers (and you should! They abound in Marin, Oakland, Berkeley, up and down the Peninsula), you can see some amazing individual performances.

The play’s title, its author agrees, may suggest something "Santa Claus Is Coming Out" is not. "You might dismiss the show based on the title as a silly farce without a lot of depth." But you’d be wrong, Jeffrey Solomon says.

On Saturday, November 23, the normally elegant Yoshi’s on Fillmore Street will become mired in sleaze, filth, and boundary-busting humor, as the iconic filmmaker John Waters takes to the stage.

Playwright Samuel D. Hunter sees a deadlocked society in which one side accuses the other of degeneracy, while that side returns with charges that literal scriptural beliefs border on insanity.