Wednesday, December 20, 2023
From cleverly reimagined classics to entirely original performance art, these companies produced some of the best theater in the Bay Area.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, December 18, 2023
One Christmas ghost will haunt the rafters of American Conservatory Theater’s Toni Rembe Theater no more.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 11:04AMSaturday, December 16, 2023
Circus Bella’s show at the Crossing at East Cut might make you wonder why S.F. doesn’t use more performing arts to enliven neighborhoods.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:43PMSaturday, December 9, 2023
With “Nightlight,” about light pollution, the plucky and whimsical Imaginists dance on theater’s boundaries.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:33PMThursday, December 7, 2023
Though not without its hiccups, indie show “A Nightmare on Elm St Holiday Special” is sure to titillate horror fans and indie theater aficionados.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:40PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
In “Galileo,” Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza is set to play the astronomer who argued for heliocentrism, even if it meant giving up his freedom.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:04PMSunday, 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 01:58PM 
