Jaclyn Backhaus' play, now in a West Coast premiere at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company, can be overly didactic at times, but a passionate yearning drives it.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:22PMThe show about Broadway stars and a small-town lesbian serves as a fun kick-off to San Francisco's Pride Weekend.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:39PMAs Ariel Craft departs Cutting Ball, Bay Area theater professionals who recently gave birth reflect on family-work balance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM"It is a bit of trip going from community college student to executive," union actor Sean Fenton joked.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMBerkeley Rep, Teatro Visión, TheatreWorks and Cutting Ball Theater all have auspicious summer offerings.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMImmersive theater is an art. Dear Netflix, please let local theater artists help you make this better.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:33PMLucas Hnath's play about his mother's real-life kidnapping haunts as only nonfiction can.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:16PMAnaïs Mitchell's score can chug like a freight train or clang and gasp like the pistons and gaskets of Hades' foundry in this production at the Orpheum Theatre.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:45PM"The Mojo and the Sayso" is sharp about the ways that family can live right on top of each other without ever intersecting.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:31PMOrpheus "almost can't live in the reality of the world around him, and for that reason he lets down Eurydice," Anaïs Mitchell said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMKaren Zacarías' bilingual adaptation invites non-Spanish-speaking audiences to whet our powers of comprehension.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:28PMSexy clowns, staple guns, beds of nails and comet tails of sparks are some of the acts in the Ruckus and Rumpus Revival, formerly Tourettes Without Regrets.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:19PMIn Marin Theatre Company's new production, a mutual appreciation for the author's inner life makes possible an unlikely friendship, and an intriguing mystery.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:44PM"For a long time, acting had always been a way for me to be something other than myself," said alum Liz Sklar.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe acting program that trained Denzel Washington, Annette Bening and Elizabeth Banks is closing because of financial difficulties.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSarah Ruhl's "Smile" and "Melancholy Play" offer gems of lyricism and spiritual solace in a grief-riven era.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM"Your job as a director is to know the play well enough to identify when someone else has a better idea," he says.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe press secretary is representing someone else, playing a part, telling a story, and the media isn't just an audience, but representatives, too.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAdam Bock's play anatomizes our tethers to the world around us and exposes their fragility.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:35PMÁrpád Schilling's play seeks to delineate how just a couple small disturbances can fester, eating away our social fabric.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:27PMIt's a refreshing return to pre-pandemic numbers when many others' output remains reduced.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:30PMÁrpád Schilling doesn't think of himself as Hungarian. "I'm European, or I'm a human," he says.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSam Chanse's world premiere collects a bunch of finely etched fragments but lets each crumble just as it begins to glimmer.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:42PMYes, the Oakland theater artist, poet and stylist, 30, really dresses this way all the time, seven days a week.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMJessica Huang's play painstakingly diagrams the human-sized ripple effects of racist U.S. immigration policy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:40PMBerkeley Rep has a long, proud history of developing and launching musicals that go on to have great success on larger stages.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:03PMThe Texas law deputizing ordinary citizens as bounty hunters of those who aid and abet abortions recalls the witch hunt in "The Crucible."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:50PMWith under $200,000 of investment, the nearly 100-year-old venue is up and running after years of disrepair.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:06PMComposer Dave Malloy makes the internet take musical form in this Berkeley production, which runs through May 29.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:59PM"We have dreams coming to this country, but we start realizing we don't know when we'll be able to hug our parents again."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMStudents created "Womyn" from interviews they conducted with participants in the successful protest against the administration's decision to go coed.
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