Thursday, December 26, 2024
THIS TRULY IS HOLIDAY JOY Now playing this holiday season through January 5, 2025, down by The Embarcadero: The circus is in town. But not just any circus. Circus Bella, in a colorful Big To…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:25PMWednesday, December 18, 2024
HOLIDAY CHEESE The Transcendence Theatre Company is based out of Sonoma County and is known for putting on live theater productions usually in the summer, often in actual wineries. They have…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AMWednesday, December 11, 2024
A.C.T. ASKS US TO PONDER “WHY NOT” – BUT AFTER THIS UPDATED CAROL YOU’LL BE SCREAMING “WHY?!” Last holiday season, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced that, after ov…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:05PMTuesday, December 10, 2024
WITH ROTIMI AGBABIAKA KILLING IT AS PIRATE CAPTAIN HOOK, IT’S NO WONDER WHY THIS PETER PAN IS SUCH A TREASURE This holiday season, The Presidio Theater presents the fourth incarnation of P…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:46PMA CABARET IN THE HEART OF THE CASTRO Cabaret is a masterpiece of American musical theater that has been presented in a vast variety of musical and physical shapes and sizes since its premier…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:54AMSunday, December 8, 2024
This perennial favorite is back for its 19th year. This “drag” version of classic holiday-themed Golden Girls episodes seems to grow in popularity every year. Since its inception in 2005…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:51AMFriday, November 29, 2024
WEAVING TOGETHER THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE With our post election blues, and immigration becoming a hot button issue again, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding sends a message of love, hope and fa…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:27PMFriday, November 15, 2024
“HOW LUCKY YOU ARE” TO SEE SEUSSICAL No one does youth and family theater better in the Bay Area than The Berkeley Playhouse. Everything they offer features classic and family friendly s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:45AMThursday, November 14, 2024
Club Oasis, San Francisco’s premiere drag and cabaret theater showcases the best of Bay Area’s queer community’s talent, from fresh performers to campy remakes of pop culture and TV sh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:39AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
EXPLORING THE GULF IN A RELATIONSHIP New Conservatory Theater is premiering in it’s West Coast debut, Audrey Cefaly’s 2017 play The Gulf – An Elegy. This intense one-act two-hander tra…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:23AMTuesday, October 15, 2024
IT TAKES DAN HOYLE TO CREATE GREAT JOURNALISTIC THEATER San Franciscans pride themselves on their open mindedness towards all walks of life and outlooks. But do we really listen objectively …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:38PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
THIS MUSICAL IS A GOLDRUSHER Post Pandemic, New Conservatory Theatre Center is continuing to branch out in its selection of theater offerings. Primarily known for stories about gay men, comi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:42AMTuesday, October 8, 2024
CHOIR BOYS TO MEN Shotgun Players in Berkeley is presenting the Bay Area premiere of the Tony-nominated play, Choir Boy. It’s a fine fit. This one-year chronicle of a distinguished African…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:44PMWednesday, October 2, 2024
FUNNY HOW IT GOES WRONG, BUT IT KEEPS GETTING WRONGER AND WRONGER AND… San Francisco Playhouse launches into its 2025-25 season with the fast-paced comedy: The Play That Goes Wrong. Th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:56PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
JAGGED WITH SOPHISTICATION A.C.T. is bringing back on stage to the Bay Area a tried and true favorite: Noël Coward’s Private Lives. An ultimate comedy of manners, this three-act play cent…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:09PMSTUNNING STORYTELLING Many times when I go to see a show, whether as a critic or just a patron, I’ll come in not knowing in advance what I’m going to see. With a reputable theater compan…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:52AMSaturday, September 21, 2024
Arsenic and Old Lace, the classic black comedy about two sweet old sisters poisoning old men lodgers has been told on stage and screen for decades. This includes the original play written by…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMWednesday, September 11, 2024
LET THIS SILLY BLONDE MUSICAL ENTERTAIN YOU Post-pandemic, as the world is seemingly opening up, local theater and the arts have not rebounded. Many venues are suffering or have gone out of …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:45AMWednesday, July 31, 2024
WHAT’S ALL THE HOO-HA? Last Saturday, Berkeley’s Shotgun Players opened a play by Jen Silverman which is so provocative that some publications won’t publish its full title: Collective …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMFriday, July 5, 2024
DEBBY BOONE DOES INDEED LIGHT UP MY LIFE On Sunday July 14, the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation (REAF) is celebrating 30 years of producing Cabaret Concerts to fundraise for HIV and AIDS with …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:48AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
MY HEAD SAID “STAY” BUT MY HEELS SAID “RUN” Since 2007 the Berkeley Playhouse is one of the few theaters in the Bay Area that offers classes and camps for youths. Consequently their …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:00AMSaturday, June 1, 2024
COME TO THIS CABARET Cabaret is a masterpiece of American musical theater that has been presented in a vast variety of musical and physical shapes and sizes since its premiere on Broadway in…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:53PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
A SONG WHICH HAS BECOME A STANDARD Harvey Fierstein wrote his semi-autobiographical Torch Song Trilogy in the late 1970s. In it, Arnold Beckoff, a gay, Jewish man and professional drag quee…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMTuesday, April 16, 2024
New Conservatory Theatre Center is offering The Tutor, a gripping and thought-provoking three-person drama that tells a timely story of love, lies, survival, and culture. With insightful min…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:01AMFriday, April 12, 2024
A MAJESTY OF DRAG QUEENS BECOMES A PRIDE OF LIONS Founded in 1977 The Castro District’s Theatre Rhinoceros is the longest-running queer theater in the nation. This month is the world premi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
FREEDOM WRITER San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO) is presenting a terrific production that tells the amazing true story of Bay Area icon Betty Reid Soskin, known to residents i…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:36AMThursday, March 28, 2024
THE STEPS TO SUCCESS They say that timing is everything. Timing certainly is everything in The 39 Steps, the English spy spoof that occupies a delightful, often amazing, and even suspensefu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
A PIPELINE TO GREAT THEATER Theater can do more than entertain. A good drama can not only pull at your heartstrings, it has the ability to educate, influence and inform. Pipeline, now playin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:26AMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Some consider A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tributes to love: both romantic and platonic. “Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. And t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:24AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
THE DEMONS ON ANGEL ISLAND We’ve all heard stories about coming to America through Ellis Island. We’ve read the books and seen the movies set in the early 1900s about the immigrants sail…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:06PMFriday, March 15, 2024
UNPACKING PACKS IN TOO MUCH INFO WITHOUT PACKING ENOUGH PUNCH Set in the East Coast Summer gay mecca Provincetown in 1959, four old vaudeville friends reunite anxiously awaiting the promisin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:40PM 
