Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Marin Theatre Company's artistic director departs at a time when many are questioning whether the demands of theater leadership are worth the rewards.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:30PMMonday, November 21, 2022
If you grew up on Disney princesses whose narrative arcs drove unswervingly toward heterosexual marriage, "Frozen" opens refreshing possibilities.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:45PMThe small theater led by Michael Socrates Moran and William Hodgson is consistently one of the most vital and exciting in the Bay Area.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, November 20, 2022
Next spring, Larissa FastHorse's script will be the first play by a Native American woman on Broadway.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:09PMWednesday, November 16, 2022
Custom Made Theatre Company, FaultLine Theater and African-American Shakespeare Company are among 2022's seasonal standouts.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMPerforming at NCTC is especially meaningful for Marken, since Artistic Director Ed Decker first recommended him for an audition.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, November 13, 2022
Shotgun Players' "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" isn't just another transitory set on the same-old stage.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:35PMSaturday, November 12, 2022
On one downtown Berkeley block, phở is both dinner and theater for two Chronicle critics.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:07PMFriday, November 11, 2022
"Ain't Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations" epitomizes one essential function of the jukebox musical.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:58PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
"Everybody always thinks 'Wuthering Heights' is romantic, and it so isn't," director Emma Rice told The Chronicle.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSaturday, November 5, 2022
The Berkeley theater company's season selection committee operates by consensus; each member has veto power.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:00PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Accusations include bullying, micromanagement, gaslighting and unsafe working conditions, including inadequate COVID policies.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, October 23, 2022
Adrienne Price's world-premiere musical writes an origin story for queer and trans San Francisco audiences.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:58PMFriday, October 21, 2022
The one-woman show in a dairy barn is grounded in Vivien Straus' self-awareness that both she and all the cows in her life are a bit ridiculous.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
"Pony" is part of an exciting new wave of trans theater that's no longer limited to narratives of transitions and reveals.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:06PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Naghmeh Samini's U.S. premiere is partly about how we can be sick to death of someone yet feast hungrily on them.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:14PMSaturday, October 15, 2022
Friday, October 14, 2022
The musical flattens Alanis Morissette's songs into ambient lobby music, distends them into dirges or simply blasts through.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:12PMThursday, October 13, 2022
"The Hummingbird" is "about two people who fell through the cracks, and one made it out alive, and one didn't," Kathryn Keats said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
"If we can name it better, then we can try and do it better," said Lead Director Sean San José.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:19PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
SFBATCO's "The Day the Sky Turned Orange" in the New Roots Theatre Festival invites us to process unresolved collective trauma.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, October 9, 2022
Sentiment works because it's predictable, because it reassures rather than probes or challenges, which can make it at odds with art.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
SB1116, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sept. 29, could mean more of your favorite artists are able to stay in the Bay Area.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PMCal Shakes hired Clive Worsley as executive director and plans to refocus on co-producing and presenting others' work at the Bruns Amphitheater in Orinda.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:00AMThursday, September 29, 2022
One of the myriad gifts of "Indecent" is that it endows Asch with the full, flawed humanity that Broadway denies his characters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PM"There was no reason to think that I wouldn't get paid," Sharron Drake of Inverness Theatre Project said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Marin Theatre Company's production feels a bit like the endless Scottish mud and cold that characters keep complaining about.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:48PMTuesday, September 27, 2022
"Darwin wondered if the smile was shaped by evolution, just like bones and beaks and legs," Isabella Rossellini said ahead of her show in San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, September 22, 2022
"Passengers" by "Dear San Francisco" co-creator Shana Carroll makes meaning and rhythm from the everyday shuffle of train travel.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:14PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
The "transformative" gift, the largest the theater has ever received, will go partly toward building improvements.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:33PMSunday, September 18, 2022
America's peculiar, extreme notion of freedom insists on the right to be free from judgment for our thoughts and actions.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:05PM 
