Thursday, March 24, 2022
Still, there are plenty of joys to be had from this Pultizer Prize winner by Quiara Alegría Hudes, of "In the Heights" fame.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:08PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
Artistic directors finally make long-delayed directing debuts, and musicians make their musical theater debuts.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, March 15, 2022
American Conservatory Theater's production of María Irene Fornés' "Fefu and Her Friends" shines a light on a playwright never given her just due.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, March 14, 2022
In Paul Gordon's musical adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," the contrast between the Dashwood sisters takes on new resonance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01PMSunday, March 13, 2022
The Tony Award-winning musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald offers nothing less than a vision of what it is to be human.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:11PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks and Oregon Shakespeare Festival have all paused internship programs.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, March 6, 2022
Dan Hoyle's show at the Marsh suggests there might not be that much drama, variety or depth within liberal, white, affluent male guilt.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:12AMThursday, March 3, 2022
Audiences to this sound-driven show from the Dutch collective Urland might find themselves transported back to childhood.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:05PMWednesday, March 2, 2022
San Francisco artist Patricia Diart got the idea for "The Cape" after seeing the video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck in 2020.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:57PMNational Theatre Productions is "unable to say with confidence when the show can arrive in the Bay Area."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:46PMTuesday, March 1, 2022
The season concludes with "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," a jukebox musical recounting the icon's hard-won victories.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PMSaturday, February 26, 2022
The inventive 10-year-old company is ever worthy of attention, even when individual shows don't quite hit the mark.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:39PMFriday, February 25, 2022
Stone-melting, fire-spewing, bone-crunching special effects pack more power in a one-part "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:29PMWednesday, February 16, 2022
Ushers, house managers and security staff are in the crosshairs of audience members' diametrically opposed preferences.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, February 15, 2022
Schirle was an accordionist, a ballerina, a mask artist, a playwright, an actor and a scholar.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, February 9, 2022
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's play, part of a wave of works by Black writers on Broadway last year, is penetrating in insight.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:02PMSunday, February 6, 2022
Fitz is less a character who's lived a life before the play starts than a concept a playwright might pluck out of the ether.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:16PMFriday, February 4, 2022
Raphael Massie of Oregon Shakespeare Festival succeeds the not-quite-retiring Robert Currier at the San Rafael company.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, February 3, 2022
Rhetoric is both air raid siren and war cry in Will Arbery's Pulitzer Prize finalist.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01PM"It is strange to have it all swept away — all at once, and slowly," said Allison Page, executive artistic director of sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, February 1, 2022
"Battles in scarcity economies become incredibly ugly for what seem to outsiders like very small stakes," Tony Kushner said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, January 31, 2022
These trans-positive projects transcend a time-honored question: whether it's possible to separate art from a problematic artist.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, January 30, 2022
The idea for the show sprang in part from co-creator Othello Jefferson's ritual of reading Black poetry to his two daughters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:48PMFriday, January 28, 2022
The Avett Brothers musical asks: When a whaling voyage goes horribly awry, how far would you go to stay alive?
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:07PMThursday, January 27, 2022
Blasphemously talented singers, beatboxers and rappers cook up, on the fly, a miniature hip-hop opera about your day.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:37PMTuesday, January 18, 2022
"There can be the stress of whether you match up, whether you’re quote-unquote ‘as good,’" Nic A. Sommerfeld said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMActors at TheatreWorks, Bay Area Children's Theatre, Berkeley Rep and more share the thrills and chills of filling in last-minute.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, January 13, 2022
The quiet assurance of the Tony-winning show at BroadwaySF's Golden Gate Theatre almost makes other musicals look insecure.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:53PMTuesday, January 11, 2022
For a city of fewer than 125,000 residents, Berkeley has an outsize reputation as an arts destination in part because of Medak.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PM"I love what happens when you have an audience meeting artists halfway," Berkeley Rep's Susie Medak said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PM 
