Sunday, March 26, 2023
“Guys and Dolls,” “The 39 Steps” and “Evita” are among the recognizable titles in the Union Square company’s next season.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:00PMFriday, March 24, 2023
With Mona Pirnot’s West Coast premiere, you’ll never look at workplace monitoring the same way again.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:13PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
American Conservatory Theater’s next season contains six shows, in contrast to this year’s five and a pre-pandemic seven.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:30PMBay Area theater director Mina Morita recently received a $25,000 “mid-career” grant. Now she helms “English,” about Iranian TOEFL students, at Berkeley Rep.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, March 20, 2023
Monica White Ndounou’s production at Marines’ Memorial Theatre in S.F. highlights the difference between not listening as a character and as an actor.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:59PMCinnabar Theater, Crowded Fire Theater, Cutting Ball Theater and others offer testaments to the joys of small theater.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, March 19, 2023
Kathryn Keats’ solo show about her real-life captivity is testament to the messy, always in-progress act of survival.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:15PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Susi Damilano’s cast rounds up several of Bay Area comedy’s usual suspects and gives them a welcome platform to mug, vamp and slay.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:55PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
How can video games improve story and character? With Bay Area playwrights and stage actors.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
"We don't want to disturb our patron base by telling them that they'll have to share the space with other people. What I want to do is disturb the notion of disturbing," Oregon Shakespeare F…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, March 2, 2023
Lauren Yee's play with music, which is directed by Chay Yew, features openhearted psychedelia, dreamy surf rock and ballads that sound like memories of summer days, most by Los Angeles band …
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:58PMWednesday, March 1, 2023
The local theater community rallied around Erin Merritt to ensure she could direct "Tea Party" by Gordon Dahlquist.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, February 27, 2023
The trio used the sci-fi trilogy by Chinese author Cixin Liu as a jumping-off point but soon departed from their source material in "Sojourner ZY."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:47PMFriday, February 24, 2023
Director Catherine Castellanos signals that here, in a crumbling monastery in the Central Valley village of Grangeville, the outside world is a distant land.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:59PMThursday, February 23, 2023
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss' musical about the six wives of Henry VIII knows what it wants and knows how to get it.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:23PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Gusting winds twice stalled opening night of a new musical, by Lauren M. Gunderson, Bree Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan, about female Supreme Court trailblazers.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:03PMThursday, February 16, 2023
In American Conservatory Theater's West Coast premiere, S.F. native Christopher Chen sprinkles in clues and red herrings with the expert timing of a symphony conductor.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:06PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Other highlights coming to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts include "Ain't Too Proud" and "Mean Girls."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:00PMHas A.I. made the future for full-time human theater critics - about a dozen of us in the U.S. - bleaker still?
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:10PMWednesday, February 8, 2023
Playwright Cardid Svich trusts that her audiences can function in the world of metaphor and allusion.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:02PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
"I decided I want to make the most Chris Chen play I could possibly make," Christopher Chen said of ACT's "The Headlands."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, February 6, 2023
Santa Clara native Carla Pantoja has worked with the 40-year-old company for two decades as teacher, director and actor.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PMSunday, February 5, 2023
"Everest: An Immersive Experience" might be best thought of as immersive animated opera film rather than immersive opera.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:38PMSaturday, February 4, 2023
Claude Jackson Jr.'s world premiere is life-affirming without being sentimental, somehow hopeful without being unrealistic.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:23PMFriday, February 3, 2023
To playwright Dominique Morisseau's ace dialogue, director Dawn Monique Williams brings both micro and macro sensitivity.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:03PMThursday, February 2, 2023
Musical theater's tools only deaden the show, an adaptation of the 2004 movie written by Tina Fey.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:06PMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Co-founder Michael Socrates Moran is making his playwriting debut with the company, with "Exodus to Eden."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, January 26, 2023
In Lynn Nottage's comedy, a sandwich shop is a kind of purgatory, a prison after workers get out of prison.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:08PMTuesday, January 24, 2023
Since opening in 2014, the Tenderloin space has been more than just a venue. As a gathering place, it was a destination.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PMMonday, January 23, 2023
Elon Musk's Twitter feed is absurdist theater, so we hired a local actor to perform it as a monologue.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, January 22, 2023
TheatreWorks' West Coast premiere churns out confrontations and revelations as if they're on a runaway conveyor belt.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:15PM 
