You start to wish Daphne’s story could take life as its own new musical instead of being shoehorned into preexisting intellectual property.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:25PMShotgun Players, SFBATCO, Berkeley Rep and others offer shows to organize your calendar around.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMDespite its indulgences, Marcus Gardley’s world premiere stands as an example of how Oakland Theater Project is the most ambitious little theater company in the region.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:21PMOakland Theater Project, Theatre Lunatico and American Conservatory Theater made Bay Area theater sparkle this year.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 09:50AMDirector Pam MacKinnon and playwright Craig Lucas don’t establish enough ground rules for their story to cohere into something more than a string of random events.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:56PM‘Peter Pan’ aspires to, and often achieves, smooth-mind, sparkly escape from worldly cares.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:00PMTheatreWorks’ production of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s “Pride and Prejudice” sequel combines holiday confection, spicy debate and sumptuous visuals.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:58PMFor all of Susi Damilano’s compassionate, imaginative direction, this production of Jessie Nelson and Sara Bareilles’ 2015 musical suffers from a near-fatal flaw.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:01PMLeah Nanako Winkler’s world premiere, inspired by a New York Times article, capitalizes on how theater is, at its core, bodies in the same space as you.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:44PMWhen Lucas Hinds Babcock performs at BroadwaySF’s Orpheum Theatre, he’ll be returning to the venue where he saw tours as a boy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMIn Word for Word’s “The Strange Library,” self-rearranging walls submerge you in a dreamlike state.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:41PMThe cast members of Actors’ Reading Collective’s “The Antipodes” don’t just chow down on rich material; they’re connoisseurs.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:35PMIn a country that just elected a xenophobe president, Jocelyn Bioh’s West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep is a necessary corrective.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:30PMAmerican Conservatory Theater’s world premiere of “A Whynot Christmas Carol” demands introspection alongside its magic and laughs.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:00PMOakland Theater Project’s “Ghost Quartet” is so gossamery, so there-yet-not-there, that you might feel as if you merely got haunted by a narrative’s shadow.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:19PMThe Tony Award-winning musical at BroadwaySF’s Curran Theatre takes a different path from other shows about high schoolers.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMBay Area actors who trod the boards at the Bruns Amphitheater share their memories of the quirky outdoor venue as Cal Shakes’ closure looms.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:00PMNoël Coward’s famed repartee — “I love you when you’re offended” — occasionally lubricates the proceedings.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:19PMThe legacy theater, under the leadership of Sean San José, continues to buck trends by producing exclusively world premieres next year.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 06:11PMJen 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 08:17PMLloyd Suh’s two-hander, which plays at Capital Stage, Aurora Theatre and TheatreWorks, is gentle, shattering and healing.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:57PMBerkeley Repertory Theatre presents a small-scale version of Mozart’s opera — small for opera, that is.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:32PMOakland Theater Project’s second part of Tony Kushner’s epic is every bit as strong as the first.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:52PMIn 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 03:01AMIn 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 03:47PMThe 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 04:32PM
