Friday, May 16, 2025
THE WAITING GAME HAS WRINKLES As Bette Davis’s sampler cushion said, “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.†We start to lose our memories. Our bodies start to ache a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:01PMThursday, May 8, 2025
SURVIVAL, STRUGGLE AND SMALL JOYS Young girls coming of age always makes for a good story usually filled with life-changing moments and lessons to be learned. In Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:53AMMonday, May 5, 2025
New Conservatory Theatre is premiering Eric Reyes Loo’s family dramedy about life, breakups and soul searching: Simple Mexican Pleasures. The show opens with Eric (Alex Rodriguez) ree…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:14AMSunday, April 27, 2025
August Wilson’s Two Trains Running takes place in 1969 in the working-class Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Now on at American Conservatory Theater, it’s part of Wil…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:44AMSaturday, April 19, 2025
HERE THERE ARE HORRORS Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s Here There Are Blueberries, directed by Kaufman at Berkeley Rep, involves a fascinating true story. We are at the U.S. Ho…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:05AMFriday, April 11, 2025
A rare and exhilarating theatrical event is unfolding at American Conservatory Theater’s Strand Theater: Suzy Eddie Izzard’s one-person performance of Hamlet. This is no ordina…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:42PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE…AND FUNNY Now playing at San Francisco Playhouse, Fat Ham is James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony-nominated riff on Hamlet—but this is …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:10AMFriday, 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 …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:21PMSunday, 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 hav…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:26AMSunday, 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 03:25PMThursday, 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-snor…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:15AMTuesday, 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 a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:47AMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:05AMThursday, 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 Dood…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:03AMTuesday, 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 03:00PMSunday, 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 Benjam…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:00PMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:46AMThursday, 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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:01AMMonday, 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 10:01PMWednesday, 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 09:57PMWednesday, 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.…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:05PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:46PMA 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 09:54PMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:51PMFriday, 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 a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:27PMFriday, 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 fr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:45PMThursday, 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 cu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:39PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:23PMTuesday, 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 10:38AMWednesday, 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 09:42PMTuesday, 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 Af…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:44PM 
