Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Presidio Theatre's "Sleeping Beauty" looks to make participatory theater fun for an American audience.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAt "A Christmas Carol" and "Nutcracker," neurodiverse audience members can make whatever noises they want or need to.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
"Into the Woods" is the first major show in the Curran since "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" departed in September.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:45PMSunday, December 4, 2022
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley suggests just how many more shadings, facets and worlds the musical theater canon still has to show us.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:59PMFriday, December 2, 2022
Custom Made and FaultLine Theater's co-production is perfect for fans of homegrown theater who tire of the same old holiday fare.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:16PMWednesday, November 30, 2022
In August Wilson's play, it makes sense to put all your faith in the lotto, even when you know the game is rigged.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:42PMFriday, November 25, 2022
KeyComp could make it possible for a single synthesizer player to replicate the sound of a large orchestra with unprecedented flexibility.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
At a recent "Two Trains Running" rehearsal at Marin Theatre Company, director Dawn Monique Williams led with conspiratorial joy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, 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 03:00PM 
