Thursday, October 12, 2023
Heidi Armbruster's delightful new play "Mrs. Christie," running thru Oct 29th, the true-life, never-solved mystery of British novelist Agatha Christie's 11-day disappearance in 1926, is well…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:40AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
JOHNNY MORENO, JEFF KIM & especially MICHELLE TALGAROW are excellent in Bill English's beautifully directed San Francisco Playhouse production running through June 29th.
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 11:25AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
On opening night of the Drag Kings’ wacky and wonderful parody of “Turnabout Intruder” — the final episode of the original “Star Trek” TV series from 1969 — the audience »…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMTuesday, March 29, 2016
The nature of shame, the power that perhaps can be found in not being “normal,” and gay culture assimilating into the mainstream are among themes Z Space playwright-in-residence Peter Si…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMThursday, March 24, 2016
The main character in Chicago writer Andrew Hinderaker’s latest play, “Colossal” — a theater-dance drama in a West Coast premiere at San Francisco Playhouse — is a sort of …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMWednesday, March 23, 2016
The title of Terrence McNally’s “Mothers and Sons” (now at New Conservatory Theatre Center in a regional premiere) is a bit of a misnomer. It’s actually about one very particular …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMMonday, March 21, 2016
Playwright Will Eno has a brilliant way of manipulating language to probe the heart of the human experience, at least as seen in the current production of his four-hander, “The »
The …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:47PMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Do go to see Word for Word’s text-verbatim staging of two short stories by Irish-born writers Emma Donoghue and Colm Tóibín, but don’t expect anything like the Oscar-nominated films ba…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMWednesday, February 17, 2016
The abundant acting and directing talent on display in African-American Shakespeare Company’s production of George C. Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum” — not to mention Wolfe’s br…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 01:46PMMonday, February 15, 2016
Enough happens in Jessica Hagedorn’s 1998 drama “Dogeaters,” now in a revised version at the Magic Theatre, to make the mind reel. The sprawling and ambitious play about the Philippine…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:14PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Jennifer Haley’s 2012 award-winner, “The Nether,” is deceptively formulaic at first: In a claustrophobic, nondescript gray room, a terse law enforcement officer is aggressively interro…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:36PMMonday, January 25, 2016
At the beginning of Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout’s “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” a 2010 one-actor play now at American Conservatory Theater, the great jazz musician Lo…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 02:15PMThursday, January 21, 2016
A virtuoso pianist, singer, actor and playwright, Canadian-born Hershey Felder has for years been charming audiences with his solo “musical plays” about composers George Gershwin, Beetho…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
In “Mother’s Milk,” a tender tribute to his late mother, performer Wayne Harris so beautifully embodies her as a character that you may find yourself loving her just as he »
The p…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMFriday, December 4, 2015
In the multi-Tony-winning musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” the show-stopper occurs when the “gentleman” in question, Monty Navarro, is accepting a marriage prop…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:35PMThursday, December 3, 2015
What a day for a daydream, indeed. The Magic Bus takes off in a cloud of bubbles. It’s 1967, the Summer of Love. Our guide, “Gaia,” dressed à là Janis »
The post Feelin’ groov…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
It’s been awhile since San Francisco’s Word for Word, the inventive troupe that stages literary works verbatim, has produced a holiday-themed show. Now, “Holiday High Jinx: Bums, Broad…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 08:27PMMonday, November 23, 2015
New York playwright Tanya Barfield’s “Bright Half Life,” now in a Magic Theatre West Coast premiere, is the kind of two-hander that is so specific and detailed in all the »
The po…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 02:38PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
With the Paris attacks on everybody’s mind on Friday the 13th, it seemed an especially significant opening night for American playwright Ayad Akhtar’s powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning dr…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:25PMThursday, November 12, 2015
“Art must always be dangerous,” a theater-loving German POW camp commander tells Harry, a young American prisoner, in Theatre Rhinoceros’ new play by John Fisher, “Shakespeare Goes t…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:15AMFriday, October 23, 2015
In his only comedy, “Ah, Wilderness!,” written in 1932 in the midst of the Depression but set in 1906, the normally dour playwright Eugene O’Neill was imagining a young man’s »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:41PMThursday, October 8, 2015
If you’ve ever been a teenage girl, you’re likely to identify with at least one of the three 14-year-olds who comprise the trio “the Skanks,” in Lachlan Philpott’s “Truck Stop,�…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
The two short stories by San Francisco writer Lysley Tenorio, “Monstress” and “Save the I-Hotel” (from his collection “Monstress”), which are adapted for the American Conservator…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
With two mutable characters and one cameraperson who tracks them, Mugwumpin’s multimedia “Blockbuster Season” is an intriguing, funny and at times confusingly disjointed devised-theate…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 08:01PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
In “Fred’s Diner,” each of the three women working long hours in dead-end jobs in this roadside diner cherishes hopes for the future. So do the diner’s two regular customers. »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:05AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Adhering closely, plotwise, to the popular 2001 French film “Amélie,” the almost-entirely-sung-through romantic comedy “Amélie, A New Musical” transfers well to the stage, at least…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 08:49PMThursday, September 3, 2015
Parodies and adaptations of, and homages to, turn-of-the-century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov abound, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies (“Dinner with Friends”) c…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 02:35PMThursday, August 27, 2015
The kids are not all right in East Coast playwright Lila Rose Kaplan’s world premiere, “1 2 3,” part of San Francisco Playhouse’s Sandbox Series of new works. Kaplan’s three »…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:15AMFriday, June 5, 2015
by Jean Schiffman
“Jesus lives here!” shouts a hyped-up, sweating Pastor Elias, delivering a sermon from the pulpit of a small Pentecostal church.
It’s a vibrant start to �…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:00AMby Jean Schiffman
“Jesus lives here!” shouts a hyped-up, sweating Pastor Elias, delivering a sermon from the pulpit of a small Pentecostal church.
It’s a vibrant start to �…
SOURCE: archives.sfexaminer.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 3, 2015
by Jean Schiffman
Marisela Treviño Orta’s at times captivating, at times perplexing, drama “Heart Shaped Nebula,” now in a world premiere at Shotgun Players, begins when a…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:00AM 
