Friday, March 28, 2025
STITCHING TOGETHER BEAUTY AND HORROR: SF BALLET’S ELECTRIFYING FRANKENSTEIN San Francisco Ballet’s Frankenstein, a co-production with The Royal Ballet of London, had its world premiere i…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21PMSunday, March 23, 2025
ASHES TO ASHES, PIXIE DUST TO PIXIE DUST Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright, and former Bay Area resident Colman Domingo‘s semi-autobiographical dramedy, Wild With Happy, is having …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:26PMSunday, March 16, 2025
AUDACIOUS AND FUN MUSICAL TAKES ON REALITY TV Last Wednesday, A.C.T. opened an extremely likeable, engaging and entertaining musical telling one of the tried-and-true stories of the 21st cen…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:25PMThursday, March 13, 2025
CABS, COKE AND COMING OUT: PEARL ONG’S JOYRIDE THROUGH SF At The Marsh Theater, Pearl Ong—who describes herself as a “former Hong Kong Princess, pot-smoking and coke-snorting lesbian�…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:15PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
PUSH/PULL PACKS A PUNCH Berkeley’s Central Works is known for offering local Bay Area writers workshops and the opportunity for new playwrights to debut their works on stage with an audien…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:47AMWednesday, February 26, 2025
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR RISES AGAIN. ROCK ON. Rock operas don’t come much more iconic than Jesus Christ Superstar, and Berkeley Playhouse’s electric new production makes it feel as urgent…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:05AMThursday, February 13, 2025
A SUSPENSEFUL ONE-MAN MURDER MYSTERY The Gay community in San Francisco was shocked and terrified by a series of murders between 1974-75 committed by a serial killer known as “The Doodler.…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:03AMTuesday, February 11, 2025
Currently playing at The New Conservatory Theater, Francis Grey and the Case of His Dead Boyfriend is a whirlwind one-man mystery that fuses elements of classic whodunits, camp, film noir, a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:00PMSunday, February 9, 2025
THE THING ABOUT GREAT THEATER Directed by Tyne Rafaeli, Berkeley Rep’s world premiere production of The Thing About Jellyfish delivers an emotionally resonant adaptation of Ali Benjamin’…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:00PMSaturday, February 1, 2025
San Francisco Ballet opened its season last weekend with Manon—the first in its “British Icons” series—a sumptuous and heartbreaking ballet by Sir Kenneth MacMillan. Based on Abbé P…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:46AMThursday, January 23, 2025
A SPONTANEOUS MOCKERY OF JUSTICE, INDEED Now on for a short run through January 26 at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Theater, Synergy Theater brings an improvised spoof of the iconic TV series Law …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:01PMMonday, December 23, 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 03:01AMWednesday, 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 12:48AM 
