Tuesday, September 24, 2024
STUNNING STORYTELLING Many times when I go to see a show, whether as a critic or just a patron, I’ll come in not knowing in advance what I’m going to see. With a reputable theater compan…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:52AMSaturday, September 21, 2024
Arsenic and Old Lace, the classic black comedy about two sweet old sisters poisoning old men lodgers has been told on stage and screen for decades. This includes the original play written by…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMWednesday, September 11, 2024
LET THIS SILLY BLONDE MUSICAL ENTERTAIN YOU Post-pandemic, as the world is seemingly opening up, local theater and the arts have not rebounded. Many venues are suffering or have gone out of …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:45AMWednesday, July 31, 2024
WHAT’S ALL THE HOO-HA? Last Saturday, Berkeley’s Shotgun Players opened a play by Jen Silverman which is so provocative that some publications won’t publish its full title: Collective …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMFriday, July 5, 2024
DEBBY BOONE DOES INDEED LIGHT UP MY LIFE On Sunday July 14, the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation (REAF) is celebrating 30 years of producing Cabaret Concerts to fundraise for HIV and AIDS with …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:48AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
MY HEAD SAID “STAY” BUT MY HEELS SAID “RUN” Since 2007 the Berkeley Playhouse is one of the few theaters in the Bay Area that offers classes and camps for youths. Consequently their …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:00AMSaturday, June 1, 2024
COME TO THIS CABARET Cabaret is a masterpiece of American musical theater that has been presented in a vast variety of musical and physical shapes and sizes since its premiere on Broadway in…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:53PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
A SONG WHICH HAS BECOME A STANDARD Harvey Fierstein wrote his semi-autobiographical Torch Song Trilogy in the late 1970s. In it, Arnold Beckoff, a gay, Jewish man and professional drag quee…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMTuesday, April 16, 2024
New Conservatory Theatre Center is offering The Tutor, a gripping and thought-provoking three-person drama that tells a timely story of love, lies, survival, and culture. With insightful min…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:01AMFriday, April 12, 2024
A MAJESTY OF DRAG QUEENS BECOMES A PRIDE OF LIONS Founded in 1977 The Castro District’s Theatre Rhinoceros is the longest-running queer theater in the nation. This month is the world premi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
FREEDOM WRITER San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO) is presenting a terrific production that tells the amazing true story of Bay Area icon Betty Reid Soskin, known to residents i…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:36AMThursday, March 28, 2024
THE STEPS TO SUCCESS They say that timing is everything. Timing certainly is everything in The 39 Steps, the English spy spoof that occupies a delightful, often amazing, and even suspensefu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
A PIPELINE TO GREAT THEATER Theater can do more than entertain. A good drama can not only pull at your heartstrings, it has the ability to educate, influence and inform. Pipeline, now playin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:26AMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Some consider A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tributes to love: both romantic and platonic. “Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. And t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:24AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
THE DEMONS ON ANGEL ISLAND We’ve all heard stories about coming to America through Ellis Island. We’ve read the books and seen the movies set in the early 1900s about the immigrants sail…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:06PMFriday, March 15, 2024
UNPACKING PACKS IN TOO MUCH INFO WITHOUT PACKING ENOUGH PUNCH Set in the East Coast Summer gay mecca Provincetown in 1959, four old vaudeville friends reunite anxiously awaiting the promisin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:40PMFriday, March 8, 2024
SURVIVING THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO Theatres took a big hit after COVID. Many lost a third of their audience. Now, regional theatres — those that haven’t shuttered — are turning to …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
WHAT MORE CAN I SAY? BRING YOUR KLEENEX The musical masterpiece Falsettos follows Marvin (William Giammona), an appealing, brainy, anxious, obsessive, wealthy Jewish gay man who struggles to…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:12AMWednesday, February 28, 2024
In the 21st century with the advancement of social media, anyone has the ability to be the star of their own reality show. Communicating with friends, expressing personal politics or even sh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:31AMSEASONS OF LOVE A PRODUCTION OF LOVE Founded in 2007, Berkeley Playhouse is known for its youth programs and summer theater camps for Bay Area youth. Classic family friendly shows such as Pe…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AMSaturday, February 10, 2024
WHAT THE PHO IS GOING ON? Pho (pronounced in 2 sounds, sliding up at the end: fo/ə, like your saying “fur” with a strong New York accent) is a Vietnamese soup dish consisting of broth, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, February 4, 2024
CULT OF LOVE TAKES YOU FROM “HO, HO, HO” TO “HOLY CHRIST!” The Dysfunctional Family, whether in a comedy or drama, is a staple of storytelling, from The Bible and Shakespeare to Netf…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, January 28, 2024
KOOZA RETURNS TO THE CITY OF ITS 2007 U.S. PREMIERE Circuses since the 19th century conjure up images of clowns, fire eaters, men walking on stilts and lion tamers with jungle felines jumpin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:39AMTuesday, January 23, 2024
ANDREA GORDON’S NEW PLAY IS A DIAMOND In Andrea Gordon’s lovely and engaging play Miriam and Esther Go to the Diamond District — which opened last Friday at Magic Theatre — two es…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:01AMFriday, January 19, 2024
EVERY BRILLIANT PLAY Now playing at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek through Jan. 28 is the fantastic one-man show Every Brilliant Thing. Written by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Dona…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:03PMWednesday, December 20, 2023
For two generations, a yearly outing to see A Christmas Carol has been a feel-good tradition for San Francisco families. American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) has staged adaptations of thi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTuesday, December 19, 2023
A WINTER BIG TOP HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls! Step right up. Come one, come all. The Circus is in town. Circus Bella - Full Company (Daisy Rose Coby) Stage and C…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMThursday, December 14, 2023
WHO DOESN’T LOVE A RUTHLESS CHILD? (ON STAGE, THAT IS) Just in time for some holiday fun, New Conservatory Theater presents the 1992 Off-Broadway smash hit Ruthless. With Book and Lyrics b…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:20PMMonday, September 25, 2023
TURNING SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES British author Terence Hanbury “Tim” White (1906-1964), better known as T.H. White, is best-known for The Once and Future King (1958) a collection of four …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:35PMSunday, September 17, 2023
RAY OF LIGHT ROCKS! The Bay Area’s Ray of Light Theater is known for putting fresh interpretations on classic shows, most notably musicals that push boundaries, such as Kinky Boots and The…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:12AMSaturday, September 9, 2023
A LOTTA SOUL IN THIS EXPRESS TRAIN TO JOY Officially starting A.C.T.’s 23/24 Season is the Broadway-bound world premiere musical based on the iconic TV Show Soul Train, which opened last W…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:25PM 
