Monday, September 9, 2024
Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s West Coast premiere, about the branch of the Underground Railroad that went south to Mexico, layers in a full orchestra from just two men onstage.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, September 8, 2024
Tere Martínez’s world premiere about the mainland United States’ exploitation of Puerto Rico constantly switches among English, Spanish and Spanglish, frequently pivoting mid-sentence.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:59PMThursday, September 5, 2024
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Church of Clown and La Lengua Teatro en Español are just some of the bounty in fall’s theatrical cornucopia.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:00AMSunday, August 25, 2024
Naomi Iizuka’s translation, part of the Play On Shakespeare project, begins with a life-and-death fight scene and somehow never lets that rush abate throughout its lean 100 minutes.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:34PMSaturday, August 24, 2024
In Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities and two sets of twins, now in a Marin Shakes production, tepidity prevails.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:03PMWednesday, August 21, 2024
Market Street Arts, the Living Earth Show and San Francisco Shakespeare Festival are partnering with the city to attract residents and workers back to downtown neighborhoods.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 09:41PMTuesday, August 13, 2024
Crowded Fire Theater’s world premiere makes us endure such prodigious and portentous throat-clearing as to dull its insights.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:37PMMonday, August 12, 2024
Almost every cast member unveils something new and delicious in Rotimi Agbabiaka’s production of Shakespeare’s island-set play.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:57PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
Leontyne Mbele-Mbong and Michael Torres are so good in this “echo” of “Macbeth” that you might realize you never fully understood Shakespeare’s tragedy before.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:46PMMonday, August 5, 2024
With San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe is playing Prospero, the spell-casting lead in “The Tempest,” as her first Shakespeare performance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:00PMSunday, August 4, 2024
Director Susan Dalian sets the tragedy in the Kennedy era, when women wore their hair shellacked around their heads, like Christmas ornaments.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:52PMThursday, August 1, 2024
Perhaps not since 2021 has a work of Shakespeare seemed so apt to help us understand an extraordinary political moment.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:34PMMonday, July 22, 2024
The Oakland concert found its footing as soon as the Tony Award winner and Disney princess voice returned to her musical theater roots.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:34PMWednesday, July 10, 2024
The three-year-old Napa concert series inaugurated its summer season with not one, but two, “West Side Story” Anitas.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:47PMMonday, July 8, 2024
The title character of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1978 musical might recognize much in 2024’s election runup.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMSunday, July 7, 2024
“Who’s-Dead McCarthy: Stories by Kevin Barry” creeps into your mind, vine-like, and flowers.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:01PMSaturday, July 6, 2024
Domenique Lozano’s adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing” reveals Shakespeare as not some holy writ etched in stone but a bubbling lab ripe for experimentation.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01PMFriday, July 5, 2024
Venue changes, shaded seats and costume modifications are just some ways Bay Area theaters have learned to adapt amid a record-breaking heat wave.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:28PMJohn O’Farrell and Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick’s musical shadowboxes its way through key plot points and memorable shots from the 1993 Robin Williams film set in San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:25PMThursday, June 27, 2024
Jeremy Kareken and David Murrell’s adaptation of John D’Agata and Jim Fingal’s book fails as both a portrait of journalism and a work of theater.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 09:19PMFriday, June 21, 2024
Octavio Solis’ reverse-migration sequel to John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” feels as overladen as the Joad family jalopy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:55PMThursday, June 13, 2024
The Mission District theater is facing a perfect storm of increased costs from insurance, utilities, payroll and more.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:34PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
The destruction of Pittsburg Theatre Company’s warehouse hasn’t stopped the company from opening “The Sunshine Boys” on Friday, June 14.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:25PM‘Mother Road,’ a sequel of sorts to John Steinbeck’s ‘The Grapes of Wrath,’ imagines a latter-day reverse migration for Joad family descendants.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, June 9, 2024
Playwright Naomi Iizuka constructs exquisite clockworks over and over again in her Magic Theatre and Campo Santo world premiere set on the island of Borneo.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:12PMFriday, June 7, 2024
At BroadwaySF, Marianne Elliott’s take on George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical about singledom versus marriage bursts with ripe, juicy fruits.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:42PMThursday, May 30, 2024
For all its heft, Stefano Massini’s play about the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers is a marvel of poetic restraint.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:17PMWednesday, May 29, 2024
Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical is relevant whenever nationalism, groupthink and racial othering are on the rise, which seems to be always.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:03PMFriday, May 24, 2024
“Best Available” centers on a fictional theater’s behind-the-scenes hiring process, and the script might make audiences wonder if they’re complicit.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:52PMMountain Play, Santa Cruz Shakespeare and Circus Bella invite audiences to enjoy a live performance and eat a picnic, too.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, May 20, 2024
“Swept Away,” featuring music by folk rock band the Avett Brothers, was among the first big theatrical projects to premiere in the Bay Area after the pandemic’s worst days.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:14PM 
