Friday, December 29, 2023
The novel, about an ambitious mid-30s theater critic, made me reflect on the joy, terror and harsh reality of writing about theater.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, December 27, 2023
Titles at Shotgun Players, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company and Cutting Ball Theater point to a new era in the new year.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, 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 02:30PM 
