"There can be the stress of whether you match up, whether you’re quote-unquote ‘as good,’" Nic A. Sommerfeld said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMActors at TheatreWorks, Bay Area Children's Theatre, Berkeley Rep and more share the thrills and chills of filling in last-minute.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe quiet assurance of the Tony-winning show at BroadwaySF's Golden Gate Theatre almost makes other musicals look insecure.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:53PMFor a city of fewer than 125,000 residents, Berkeley has an outsize reputation as an arts destination in part because of Medak.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PM"I love what happens when you have an audience meeting artists halfway," Berkeley Rep's Susie Medak said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PMThe Tony-winning musical about isolation and waiting might strike pandemic-era audiences differently.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe new policy adheres to a San Francisco Department of Public Health order applying to operators of indoor "mega-events."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:41PMFor too long now, we've allowed a region with first-class performers to make its art so physically inaccessible.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMShows by SFBATCO, Berkeley Rep, Oakland Theater Project and more gleam in Bay Area theater in 2022.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMGifts from Zendesk, Amazon, SalesForce to theaters, choruses and more suggest the start of a shift in tech philanthropy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMCal Performances, Berkeley Playhouse and Cutting Ball Theater have also announced cancellations.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:37PMSan Francisco Playhouse, SFBATCO and California Shakespeare Theater offered just some of 2021's Bay Area theater highlights.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM"Conservatory" is inscribed in ACT's middle name; without the master's program, the theater will have to forge a radically different identity.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:14PMFoolsFury festival director Claudia Alick urged everyone to "resist the narrative that closing is failure."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTwo of the Bay Area's most exciting theater companies — one a major institution, the other small and scrappy — are working together.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PMThe long-running London production of Stephen Mallatratt's play operates quietly and steadily, with confidence in its solid bones.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:22PMAs a technical difficulty-plagued opening night approached three hours, all that was left was bargaining with God.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:24PMFor Chase Center, Davies Symphony Hall, American Conservatory Theater and other venues, COVID has meant an immersion into HVAC.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAt Shotgun Players, the gritted-teeth panic of the not-quite-finished show seeps through.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:11PMThe romantic comedy adapts Shakespeare into a musical so persuasively you might think the two genres had always been intertwined.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:37PMEvery monstrous skinflint was once a small child, the S.F. production says, one who read adventure stories and imagined his toys to life.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMThe composer and lyricist, who died Friday, Nov. 26, made musical theater encompass the full range of human experience.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:40PMThe folk singer-songwriter, who never had wide name recognition, gets new life in the form of a piece by theater artist Beth Wilmurt.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe move concludes a 15-year tenure with the Tony-winning theater, and it closely follows the departure of Robert Kelley.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:18PMAt its best, the world premiere "Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley" is a field day for its nine-person cast.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:09PMIt would be one thing if the "My Fair Lady" sound gaffe lasted only a moment instead of recurring throughout the show.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAn uneven New Conservatory Theatre Center production is deeply interested in seminal memories of the body and desire.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:35PMPlaywright Kait Kerrigan elongates what could have been a poetic, fragmentary play into a full-blown relationship postmortem.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:07PMIn Charles L. Mee's play, with lift-off come immediate flights into the wondrous.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:19PMPlaywright Lisa Ramirez makes forcefully clear that for Generation Z, too much all the time is a permanent condition.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:53PMFrom Jane Austen to panto, this winter season sparkles with world-premiere adaptations and other new works.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM
