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 03:47PM“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 08:54PMThe overwhelming feeling watching Oakland Theater Project’s “Angels in America” is that this play is about us, right now.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:22PMAt 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 04:23PM“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 07:00AMUnderneath the surface gloss of Noël Coward’s comedy of manners is a serious truth: Marriage isn’t lovey-dovey.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:32PMRay of Light Theatre’s production slyly interrogates who’s allowed to take up the mantle of traditional femininity.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAs any high school theater teacher will tell you, you’re still acting when you don’t have any lines.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:31PMBerkeley 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 07:00AMTere 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 02:59PMTheatreWorks 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 05:00AMNaomi 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 02:34PMIn Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities and two sets of twins, now in a Marin Shakes production, tepidity prevails.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:03PMMarket 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 09:41PMCrowded Fire Theater’s world premiere makes us endure such prodigious and portentous throat-clearing as to dull its insights.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:37PMAlmost every cast member unveils something new and delicious in Rotimi Agbabiaka’s production of Shakespeare’s island-set play.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:57PMLeontyne 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 12:46PMWith 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 05:00PMDirector 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 01:52PMPerhaps not since 2021 has a work of Shakespeare seemed so apt to help us understand an extraordinary political moment.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:34PMThe 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 01:34PMThe three-year-old Napa concert series inaugurated its summer season with not one, but two, “West Side Story” Anitas.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:47PMThe 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 02:18PM“Who’s-Dead McCarthy: Stories by Kevin Barry” creeps into your mind, vine-like, and flowers.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:01PMDomenique 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 03:01PMVenue changes, shaded seats and costume modifications are just some ways Bay Area theaters have learned to adapt amid a record-breaking heat wave.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:28PMJohn O’Farrell and Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick’s musical shadowboxes its way through key plot points and memorable shots from the 1993 Robin Williams film set in San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:25PMJeremy Kareken and David Murrell’s adaptation of John D’Agata and Jim Fingal’s book fails as both a portrait of journalism and a work of theater.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 09:19PMOctavio Solis’ reverse-migration sequel to John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” feels as overladen as the Joad family jalopy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:55PMThe Mission District theater is facing a perfect storm of increased costs from insurance, utilities, payroll and more.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:34PMThe destruction of Pittsburg Theatre Company’s warehouse hasn’t stopped the company from opening “The Sunshine Boys” on Friday, June 14.
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