Sunday, December 3, 2023
“The Allure of Thug Life” shows great promise in its kaleidoscopic vision of both Blackness and rap.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:09PMFriday, December 1, 2023
The biggest change in this year’s incarnation, at the Victoria Theatre, is that Coco Peru is playing the role originated by spoof co-creator Heklina, who died in April.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:21PMThursday, November 30, 2023
The Broadway star proved the best place to hear musical theater numbers might be the San Francisco Symphony.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:19PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
The solo cabaret musical at Marin Theatre Company makes a family’s origin story in a Manila nightclub feel as mighty as myth.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:42PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
“Harry Clarke,” David Cale’s one-man play, is about the intoxicating fantasy of becoming someone else.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:21PMMonday, November 20, 2023
Theatre Rhinoceros is producing gay theater in the Castro for the first time in its 46-year history.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:50PMFriday, November 17, 2023
At Aurora Theatre, Michael Gene Sullivan’s harrowing stage adaption of George Orwell’s novel prickles the skin, pinches nerves and lodges in the viscera.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:23PMWednesday, November 15, 2023
Indie offerings from Bow & Arrow Circus Theatre Collective, Misfit Cabaret, the Imaginists and more sparkle and chime this holiday season.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, November 13, 2023
Plays by Tony Kushner, Martyna Majok and Michael Wayne Turner III continue the 12-year-old company’s proud tradition of staggering ambition.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:18PMThursday, November 2, 2023
Playwright and Berkeley native Eisa Davis devises an idiom so resplendent, so discerning, it induces chills and shudders.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:53PMFriday, October 27, 2023
Alex Edelman’s “Just for Us” at the Curran is a triumph of contemporary Jewish humor.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:34PMChurch of Clown in Visitacion Valley crowns a local clowning scene that has long rendered the profession’s stereotypes irrelevant.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, October 24, 2023
An abrupt change in the council’s funding process and its non-communication to applicants led to confusion and dismay.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, October 22, 2023
Greg Sarris’ story, set among Santa Rosa day laborers and staged at Z Below, testifies to the power of keen observation.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:33PMSaturday, October 21, 2023
Cutting Ball Theater’s remarkable production of “Rossum’s Universal Robots” reads as a cri de coeur in the age of Alexa, Siri and Waymo.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:41PMFriday, October 20, 2023
“Tiny Fires,” a world premiere by Aimee Suzara, will be Custom Made Theatre Company’s last show for the foreseeable future.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:50PMWednesday, October 11, 2023
“Our audience is not going to be a monolith,” Lance Gardner told the Chronicle of his plans for the Mill Valley company.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
Crowded Fire Theater’s revealing West Coast premiere about the complexities of a parasocial relationship delivers Bay Area theater’s biggest surprise of the fall.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:05PMMonday, October 9, 2023
The San Francisco comedian’s 14th solo show is inspired by her time as a cruise ship entertainer.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:51PMSunday, October 8, 2023
Heidi Armbruster’s champagne flute of a play, now in a TheatreWorks Silicon Valley West Coast premiere, is about Agatha Christie’s 1926 disappearance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:11PMSaturday, October 7, 2023
In Annie Danger’s piece at CounterPulse, part of the Tenderloin company’s namesake festival, audience members compete for real cash prizes.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMFriday, October 6, 2023
I know my writing — or choice not to write — about a company can affect its bottom line.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, October 5, 2023
Jocelyn Bioh’s West Coast premiere following Nigerian film in the 1990s is about romantic melodrama — both onscreen and off the set.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:30PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
The West Coast premiere of Heidi Armbruster’s play digs into the mystery author’s real-life 11-day disappearance that was never explained.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, October 2, 2023
All four slots in the San Francisco theater’s 2024 lineup are world premieres. “It’s the only way to do it,” lead director Sean San José told the Chronicle.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:58PMSaturday, September 30, 2023
The sixth haunted attraction by Into the Dark, which comprises Peaches Christ, David Flower Productions and Non Plus Ultra, has just the gory frights and cultish imagery to make your stomach…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:56PMFriday, September 22, 2023
New Executive Director Clive Worsley said he’s faced strong opposition to his vision, but assures audiences, “We’re not taking the Shakespeare away.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01AMThursday, September 21, 2023
Berkeley Rep’s production of Selina Fillinger’s play slyly posits farce as the path toward feminist revolution.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:07PMWednesday, 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 02:54PM 
