Tuesday, June 6, 2023
TheatreWorks actors took a field trip to a family-owned beauty shop to learn how professionals style textured and fine hair.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, May 31, 2023
Season highlights include San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theatre and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, May 25, 2023
Blood spills like a curtain, dribbles like egg yolk and curdles like a swamp thing in Jack Thorne’s adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:07PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
Director Sam Pinkleton’s cast list reveals Bay Area actors anew, but for potential they’ve always had.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMFriday, May 19, 2023
Sara Porkalob, Lisa Peterson and Harvey Fierstein are part of the Mill Valley company’s next lineup.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, May 18, 2023
Bay Area Children’s Theatre's abrupt shuttering is only the latest blow to local theater’s struggle to recover from the pandemic.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 06:36PMWednesday, May 17, 2023
Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus’ production dispels the old boys’ club with multiracial female, nonbinary and trans performers.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:33PMTodayTix and Theatre Bay Area’s promotion offers discounts to Ray of Light, BroadwaySF and many more.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:00PMThursday, May 11, 2023
David Henry Hwang’s play is comedy’s equivalent of being in Davies Symphony Hall.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:10PMWednesday, May 10, 2023
In Marin Theatre Company’s West Coast premiere, you might wish Satya Chávez had a script to match their talent and craft.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:55PMTuesday, May 9, 2023
Playwrights Foundation, which has fostered Christopher Chen and Lauren Gunderson, announces structural changes to meet theater’s new reality.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:50PMThe musical based on the Robin Williams film, with its onslaught of “man-in-a-dress” gags, helps make possible and justify oppressive laws.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, May 7, 2023
Marc Anthony Thompson’s world premiere about escaping slavery is satire that doesn’t say, “Eat your vegetables.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:38PMSaturday, May 6, 2023
Detour Dance’s “We Build Houses Here,” about castaways, inspires in audiences a perpetual feeling of FOMO.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:11PMFriday, May 5, 2023
The move marks an about-face from the attitude the Oakland native displayed in a February interview with The Chronicle.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:25PMThursday, May 4, 2023
The irony of Bay Area Children’s Theatre’s campaign is that demand for its work — in both performance venues and school classrooms — is as high as ever.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:02PMFriday, April 28, 2023
We Players’ site-specific, immersive walk-through show adapting Lewis Carroll polishes an San Francisco jewel to a fresh gleam.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:20PMThursday, April 27, 2023
Book writers J. F. Lawton and Garry Marshall make some small updates to the Julia Roberts-Richard Gere film, but they can’t paper over the story’s core ickiness.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:19PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
“We don’t want to bleed for our art; we want to make art, and we want to be happy and compensated,” said Cutting Ball Theater Community and Education Director Cathryn Cooper.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, April 23, 2023
Cutting Ball Theater and In the Margin’s world premiere is set partly in a late-capitalist pizza chain, partly during a shrooms trip in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:19PMSaturday, April 22, 2023
Awesome Theatre’s production proves that Hot Topic is a fertile setting for a gothic romance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Other highlights at the Orpheum and Golden Gate theatres include “Company” and “The Wiz.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:55PMUniformed park rangers are among the actors at the unique company, and Mother Nature is the set designer.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSaturday, April 15, 2023
“Change Your Mind,” the first public offering from collective Say Nothing and Leave, gets right what much immersive theater gets wrong.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:27PMFriday, April 14, 2023
In Josh Costello’s adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s classic, the title character comes off as an antagonist. Of the audience.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:10PMThursday, April 13, 2023
Jaime Castañeda’s direction at the S.F. theater evinces that DNA-deep understanding of what makes a playwright special and important.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:59PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
Michael Mayer, Octavio Solís, Lloyd Suh and Eric Ting will alight on the flagship Berkeley company next year.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:55PMThe beloved S.F. drag icon, who was found dead on Monday, April 3, triumphed during the pandemic in Meals on Heels.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, April 10, 2023
Highlights of the Silicon Valley company’s 53rd lineup include “How I Learned What I Learned,” “Queen” and “Tiger Style!”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:00PMSaturday, April 8, 2023
In leaving room for subtext, Sanaz Toossi’s West Coast premiere trusts actors and directors to coauthor a play’s meaning, showing understanding of how real people talk.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:48AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
The Berkeley company has long distinguished itself as the Bay Area’s theater of intellectual debate.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:27PM 
