Thursday, February 20, 2025
For more than a decade starting in the early 1980s, author and critic Misha Berson led Theatre Bay Area as one of its earliest executive directors.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:58PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Rajiv Joseph’s play about two friends and their bond through LeBron James’ career captures the pleasures and pain of sports fandom.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:53PMFriday, September 20, 2024
The obscure history of the Underground Railroad’s pathway to Mexico is magically told through live-looping and fierce hip-hop beats in the show’s West Coast premiere.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:02AMMonday, July 1, 2024
Rob McClure, who originated the musical’s title role, tackles both its joys and criticisms ahead of the Bay Area premiere.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:00AMThursday, April 18, 2024
Michael R. Jackson dishes about his Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning show, set to run at ACT in San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
San Francisco native Kristina Wong’s play “Sweatshop Overlord,” which was a Pulitzer finalist, is set to make its Bay Area debut at ACT.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSaturday, March 30, 2024
The many lives of Soskin’s 102 years is the premise of San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company’s world premiere musical at Z Space in San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:48PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Ashley Smiley’s world premiere play explores the current challenges of Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco’s most prominent Black neighborhood.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, November 28, 2023
Thomas Schumacher, who grew up in San Mateo, is the muscle behind Tony Award-winning musical “The Lion King,” making a San Francisco holiday tour stop.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMFriday, October 13, 2023
The original “Rent” cast member shares how grief and perseverance shaped his life and career in solo show at San Francisco’s Curran Theater.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, October 3, 2023
In Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy centering the world of Nigerian movies, the Ghanaian American playwright aims to tell a joyful African story.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, April 9, 2023
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s latest production examines the stories of those who seek shelter and respite at a library that straddles the U.S./Canada border.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:36PMFriday, February 24, 2023
Lauren Yee's anticipated Bay Area premiere of "Cambodian Rock Band" ready to rock Berkeley Rep.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMFriday, February 10, 2023
Theatre of the Poor presents play about the Bay Area's homeless crisis, created by and starring the local unhoused residents of San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:56PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
ACT alum and Broadway standout is set to perform his “Along the Way” solo show Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Strand Theater.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, January 17, 2023
The Pulitzer-winning playwright brings her new play "Clyde’s" to Berkeley Rep.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
Isabella Esler, 18, lands gig as Lydia Deetz for the touring production of the Broadway show adapted from the classic '80s film.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, October 17, 2022
B Noel Thomas spoke with The Chronicle about finding her true self, and building up her artistic voice before starring in Z Space’s latest production in S.F.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, September 8, 2022
Lavish touring production of the Broadway musical plants an elephant and a red mill out in the Orpheum Theatre audience.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:25PMTuesday, September 6, 2022
Cal Shakes’ production is a modern translation of one of Shakespeares’ most brutally heartbreaking tales, set in San Francisco’s “Harlem of the West” era.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, August 11, 2022
The writers and creatives behind “Goddess” spent 16 years perfecting their adaptation of a Kenyan myth that is originally only four sentences long.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, May 23, 2022
Playwright Karen Zacarías and director KJ Sanchez make remarkable choices in adapting Shakespeare's classic into a queer, bilingual tale of colonial California.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Wilson once chatted with Bond about a new play he had written, a talk that left Bond mesmerized at every word uttered by one of America's greatest playwrights.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM 
