Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Witnessing Ghassan Kanafani’s 1969 barn burner onstage is like discovering a midcentury classic.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:32PMSunday, April 14, 2024
In Torange Yeghizaran’s world premiere, three characters fill the playing space to bursting.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:52PMWednesday, April 10, 2024
Mike Lew’s comedy at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is balm for any thwarted adult who’s ever fantasized, “I’m gonna yell at my mom like a white girl.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:11PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
Pieces such as S.F. Ballet’s ‘Mere Mortals’ help us understand our place in the ChatGPT era.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, April 8, 2024
San Jose Stage Company’s West Coast premiere about an English hangman forced into early retirement trades moralizing for high style.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMFriday, April 5, 2024
The S.F. native’s solo show at American Conservatory Theater tells the true story of how a strawberry red Hello Kitty sewing machine started a mutual aid society.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01PMFriday, March 22, 2024
Two world premieres and the return of rotating rep are among the goodies in the 59-year-old San Francisco company’s lineup.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PMSaturday, March 16, 2024
Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play writes characters with disabilities who aren’t defined by their physical limitations.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:26PMFriday, March 15, 2024
Though some moments shine, San Francisco Playhouse’s production is mostly a joyless sprawl of unmade choices.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:53PMThursday, March 14, 2024
Lloyd Suh’s Pulitzer Prize finalist insists on the dignity of those who came to San Francisco during the Chinese Exclusion Act.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:28PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
This season’s highlights include Klanghaus, African-American Shakespeare Company and Killing My Lobster, among many others.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, March 3, 2024
Ashley Smiley’s Magic Theatre world premiere is SOS alert and valentine, high-tech heist and keenly observed family portrait.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:14PMSaturday, March 2, 2024
Elevator Repair Service’s “Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge” at Cal Performances permits no self-congratulation about racial progress.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:37PMSaturday, February 24, 2024
“Our goal this evening is to make you queer,” or queerer still, Taylor Mac said near the top of the sweeping, 55-song show at Cal Performances.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:19PMThursday, February 22, 2024
Kate Attwell’s frame-splitting, acute yet expansive script is about how complicit we are in tech’s takeover of both our interactions and consciousnesses.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:26PMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Marin Theatre Company’s actors have a muffled quality, as if they’re hoping to believe, rather than actually believing, what they’re saying.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:57PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
ACT’s “Big Data” by Kate Attwell says that when we give up our digital privacy, our homes, family, love and sex lives feel the cost.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
“Kimberly Akimbo” and “& Juliet” are among the highlights of next year’s offerings from the owner of the Orpheum, Golden Gate and Curran theaters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:30PMThursday, February 1, 2024
Minna Lee’s play asks: In a simulation where all your existential crises are gone and everything’s hunky-dory, why even bother doing anything?
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:29PMWednesday, January 24, 2024
Any play or musical must compete with all the “para-theater” in rows of audience seats, or at least the possibility that some might happen.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, January 21, 2024
At the opening night of Deneen Reynolds-Knott’s world premiere about Black college students, the crowd layered on their own soundtrack, to glorious effect.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:16PMFriday, January 12, 2024
The ACT regular stars in TheatreWorks’ “How I Learned What I Learned,” his fourth airing in August Wilson’s one-man show since 2019.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, January 9, 2024
“His visions often seem impossible to me,” said Michael Torres of new Marin Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Jon Tracy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, January 8, 2024
The one-woman play by Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes delves into the justice’s brilliant legal strategy on sex discrimination.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:54PMFriday, 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 02:40PM 
