Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Jen Silverman’s play, now in a Theatre Lunatico production, is so strong as to inspire a feeling of hope in a Bay Area theater scene recently devastated by news of closures.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:17PMMonday, October 21, 2024
Lloyd Suh’s two-hander, which plays at Capital Stage, Aurora Theatre and TheatreWorks, is gentle, shattering and healing.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:57PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Berkeley Repertory Theatre presents a small-scale version of Mozart’s opera — small for opera, that is.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:32PMMonday, October 14, 2024
Oakland Theater Project’s second part of Tony Kushner’s epic is every bit as strong as the first.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:52PMMonday, October 7, 2024
In an era of emergency fundraising campaigns and sudden closures, it’s noteworthy to remain a pillar of the theater community, as Shotgun Players has.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01AMSunday, October 6, 2024
In Cirque Flip Fabrique and Ex Machina’s circus-theater hybrid, deep understanding and love of wrestling norms yield delightful scenarios.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:47PMSaturday, October 5, 2024
The Marsh’s production benefits from sources who are so good that you want to see a whole separate play about how Hoyle found these people.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:47PMThursday, October 3, 2024
“Witching Hour” moves a maximum of 20 spectators from the Hotel Majestic’s bar to a conference room to guest suite 407, which according to lore an especially noisy specter visits.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:54PMMonday, September 30, 2024
The overwhelming feeling watching Oakland Theater Project’s “Angels in America” is that this play is about us, right now.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:22PMThursday, September 26, 2024
At San Francisco Playhouse’s “The Play That Goes Wrong,” I got to remember that backstage is a charmed, sacred space.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:23PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
“Interrogations: Pre-Election Coverage,” a trio of plays from theater company Performers Under Stress, has parallels to the presidential election — and journalism.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, September 19, 2024
Underneath the surface gloss of Noël Coward’s comedy of manners is a serious truth: Marriage isn’t lovey-dovey.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:32PMFriday, September 13, 2024
Ray of Light Theatre’s production slyly interrogates who’s allowed to take up the mantle of traditional femininity.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, September 11, 2024
As any high school theater teacher will tell you, you’re still acting when you don’t have any lines.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:31PMMonday, September 9, 2024
Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s West Coast premiere, about the branch of the Underground Railroad that went south to Mexico, layers in a full orchestra from just two men onstage.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, September 8, 2024
Tere Martínez’s world premiere about the mainland United States’ exploitation of Puerto Rico constantly switches among English, Spanish and Spanglish, frequently pivoting mid-sentence.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:59PMThursday, September 5, 2024
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Church of Clown and La Lengua Teatro en Español are just some of the bounty in fall’s theatrical cornucopia.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:00AMSunday, August 25, 2024
Naomi Iizuka’s translation, part of the Play On Shakespeare project, begins with a life-and-death fight scene and somehow never lets that rush abate throughout its lean 100 minutes.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:34PMSaturday, August 24, 2024
In Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities and two sets of twins, now in a Marin Shakes production, tepidity prevails.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:03PMWednesday, August 21, 2024
Market Street Arts, the Living Earth Show and San Francisco Shakespeare Festival are partnering with the city to attract residents and workers back to downtown neighborhoods.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 09:41PMTuesday, August 13, 2024
Crowded Fire Theater’s world premiere makes us endure such prodigious and portentous throat-clearing as to dull its insights.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:37PMMonday, August 12, 2024
Almost every cast member unveils something new and delicious in Rotimi Agbabiaka’s production of Shakespeare’s island-set play.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:57PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
Leontyne Mbele-Mbong and Michael Torres are so good in this “echo” of “Macbeth” that you might realize you never fully understood Shakespeare’s tragedy before.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:46PMMonday, August 5, 2024
With San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe is playing Prospero, the spell-casting lead in “The Tempest,” as her first Shakespeare performance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:00PMSunday, August 4, 2024
Director Susan Dalian sets the tragedy in the Kennedy era, when women wore their hair shellacked around their heads, like Christmas ornaments.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:52PMThursday, August 1, 2024
Perhaps not since 2021 has a work of Shakespeare seemed so apt to help us understand an extraordinary political moment.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:34PMMonday, July 22, 2024
The Oakland concert found its footing as soon as the Tony Award winner and Disney princess voice returned to her musical theater roots.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:34PMWednesday, July 10, 2024
The three-year-old Napa concert series inaugurated its summer season with not one, but two, “West Side Story” Anitas.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:47PMMonday, July 8, 2024
The title character of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1978 musical might recognize much in 2024’s election runup.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMSunday, July 7, 2024
“Who’s-Dead McCarthy: Stories by Kevin Barry” creeps into your mind, vine-like, and flowers.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:01PMSaturday, July 6, 2024
Domenique Lozano’s adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing” reveals Shakespeare as not some holy writ etched in stone but a bubbling lab ripe for experimentation.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01PM 
