Friday, July 1, 2022
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 01:22PMThursday, June 23, 2022
The 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 01:39PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
As Ariel Craft departs Cutting Ball, Bay Area theater professionals who recently gave birth reflect on family-work balance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSaturday, June 18, 2022
"It is a bit of trip going from community college student to executive," union actor Sean Fenton joked.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Berkeley Rep, Teatro Visión, TheatreWorks and Cutting Ball Theater all have auspicious summer offerings.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSaturday, June 11, 2022
Immersive theater is an art. Dear Netflix, please let local theater artists help you make this better.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:33PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Lucas Hnath's play about his mother's real-life kidnapping haunts as only nonfiction can.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:16PMThursday, June 9, 2022
Anaïs 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 02:45PMMonday, June 6, 2022
"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 07:00AMSunday, June 5, 2022
Karen Zacarías' bilingual adaptation invites non-Spanish-speaking audiences to whet our powers of comprehension.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:28PMFriday, June 3, 2022
Sexy 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 02:19PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
In 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 07:00AMTuesday, May 31, 2022
Sarah Ruhl's "Smile" and "Melancholy Play" offer gems of lyricism and spiritual solace in a grief-riven era.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, May 23, 2022
"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 07:00AMSunday, May 22, 2022
Adam Bock's play anatomizes our tethers to the world around us and exposes their fragility.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:35PMSaturday, May 21, 2022
Árpád Schilling's play seeks to delineate how just a couple small disturbances can fester, eating away our social fabric.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:27PMThursday, May 19, 2022
It's a refreshing return to pre-pandemic numbers when many others' output remains reduced.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:30PMMonday, May 16, 2022
Árpád Schilling doesn't think of himself as Hungarian. "I'm European, or I'm a human," he says.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, May 15, 2022
Sam 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 01:42PMFriday, May 13, 2022
Yes, the Oakland theater artist, poet and stylist, 30, really dresses this way all the time, seven days a week.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Jessica Huang's play painstakingly diagrams the human-sized ripple effects of racist U.S. immigration policy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:40PMMonday, May 9, 2022
Berkeley 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 01:03PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
The 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 04:50PMFriday, April 29, 2022
With under $200,000 of investment, the nearly 100-year-old venue is up and running after years of disrepair.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:06PMThursday, April 28, 2022
Composer 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 07:00AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Students created "Womyn" from interviews they conducted with participants in the successful protest against the administration's decision to go coed.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM 
