Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Gov. Gavin Newsom reallocated $11.5 million to the Equitable Payroll Fund to help small arts nonprofits recover from the pandemic and comply with AB5.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:04PMDreams on the Rocks Productions’ Eclectic Box is slated to be a home for companies affected by PianoFight’s closure.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:00PMFriday, September 15, 2023
Taylor Mac’s sequel to Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” creates a canvas for artists to lead our revolts.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:54PMThursday, September 14, 2023
Crowded Fire Theater’s West Coast premiere of “Edit Annie” already reflects its new leadership makeup.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, September 11, 2023
Hansol Jung’s play about a Korean adoptee galvanizes powers of make-believe.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMSunday, September 10, 2023
The plot of Ray of Light Theatre’s production is sometimes mere scaffolding on which to hang songs, and that’s OK.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:49PMSaturday, September 9, 2023
The Marsh Berkeley’s production about Black career railroad men lacks the particular alchemy of solo shows but triumphs with careful pacing, vivid characters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:15PMFriday, September 8, 2023
In Liz Duffy Adams’ firecracker of a two-hander about William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, actor Dean Linnard has a show that gives full expression to his artistic prowess.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:35PMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Lisa Peterson’s adaptation trounces the notion that Homer’s poem is irrelevant or that its interpretative possibilities have been exhausted.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:02PMHighlights this season include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, CounterPulse and We Players.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMFriday, September 1, 2023
Santa Cruz Shakespeare hit 114% of its box-office goal for the year before its summer season even finished.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, August 30, 2023
American Conservatory Theater’s world premiere musical about the legendary TV series asks, “How do our stories live in our bodies?”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, August 22, 2023
San Francisco performer Michael Phillis simultaneously spoofs human resources and serves as the field’s underdog champion.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, August 21, 2023
Paul Whitworth in the tragedy’s title role gives line readings that leave flesh wounds.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:13PMTheatreFirst in Berkeley joins a rapidly growing list of shuttered Bay Area theaters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:50PMMonday, August 14, 2023
Bridgette Loriaux’s direction of Shakespeare’s love tangle is part whipped hormone frenzy, part unsettling meditation.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:36PM“If your desire is to keep creating theater, then keep creating theater,” said Exit Theatre Artistic Director Christina Augello.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSaturday, August 12, 2023
Geetha Reddy’s version of the ancient Indian epic, now in an Oakland Theater Project production, gives the Bay Area a gift.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:23PMThursday, August 10, 2023
In ‘Corteo,’ which performs in San Jose, Oakland and S.F., the clown is like that uncle who still thinks you’re 4 when you’re 14.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:48PMWednesday, August 9, 2023
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the region’s third-largest nonprofit theater, announced it needs the public’s help this month. But its plight is hardly unique in the industry.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 06:50PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
The Lower Bottom Playaz have their first permanent home in BAM House at 1540 Broadway, part of the Black Arts Movement Business District.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, August 7, 2023
La Lengua Teatro en Español and Brava Theater’s U.S. premiere in San Francisco shows that domestic labor is anything but mundane.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:07PMSunday, August 6, 2023
Playwright and San Francisco native Star Finch makes music of trash talk in this Magic Theatre and Campo Santo world premiere.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:53PMSaturday, August 5, 2023
In Cupertino’s Memorial Park — where the tour kicked off before heading to Redwood City, San Francisco and Orinda — the play is unhelped by literal and figurative barriers between stag…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:25PMThursday, August 3, 2023
The show, about the Queen of Rock and Roll, written by Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, suffers from many of the perennial problems of jukebox musicals.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMMonday, July 31, 2023
Margo Hall and Ellen Sebastian Chang first collaborated at Magic Theatre 30 years ago, and now the pair reunite for Star Finch’s world premiere.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, July 27, 2023
“It was a heavy, rolling, deep-like grief,” says star of the musical about the Queen of Rock & Roll, which plays at BroadwaySF and Broadway San Jose.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, July 26, 2023
A quick survey of local theaters of various sizes shows subscription declines of 23% to 61% since the pandemic hit.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, July 16, 2023
Art needn’t always champion virtue and punish evil, but there’s a difference between portraying misogyny and perpetuating it.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:17PMTuesday, July 11, 2023
Billy Crudup, known for his work in “Almost Famous” and “The Morning Show,” reprises his off-Broadway role.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PMFriday, July 7, 2023
In Bill English’s hands, the 1975 musical reads as a chronicle of our own time.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM 
