New Executive Director Clive Worsley said he’s faced strong opposition to his vision, but assures audiences, “We’re not taking the Shakespeare away.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01AMBerkeley Rep’s production of Selina Fillinger’s play slyly posits farce as the path toward feminist revolution.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:07PMGov. Gavin Newsom reallocated $11.5 million to the Equitable Payroll Fund to help small arts nonprofits recover from the pandemic and comply with AB5.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:04PMDreams on the Rocks Productions’ Eclectic Box is slated to be a home for companies affected by PianoFight’s closure.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:00PMTaylor Mac’s sequel to Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” creates a canvas for artists to lead our revolts.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:54PMCrowded Fire Theater’s West Coast premiere of “Edit Annie” already reflects its new leadership makeup.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMHansol Jung’s play about a Korean adoptee galvanizes powers of make-believe.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMThe plot of Ray of Light Theatre’s production is sometimes mere scaffolding on which to hang songs, and that’s OK.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:49PMThe Marsh Berkeley’s production about Black career railroad men lacks the particular alchemy of solo shows but triumphs with careful pacing, vivid characters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:15PMIn Liz Duffy Adams’ firecracker of a two-hander about William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, actor Dean Linnard has a show that gives full expression to his artistic prowess.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:35PMLisa Peterson’s adaptation trounces the notion that Homer’s poem is irrelevant or that its interpretative possibilities have been exhausted.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:02PMHighlights this season include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, CounterPulse and We Players.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSanta Cruz Shakespeare hit 114% of its box-office goal for the year before its summer season even finished.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAmerican Conservatory Theater’s world premiere musical about the legendary TV series asks, “How do our stories live in our bodies?”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSan Francisco performer Michael Phillis simultaneously spoofs human resources and serves as the field’s underdog champion.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMPaul Whitworth in the tragedy’s title role gives line readings that leave flesh wounds.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:13PMTheatreFirst in Berkeley joins a rapidly growing list of shuttered Bay Area theaters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:50PMBridgette Loriaux’s direction of Shakespeare’s love tangle is part whipped hormone frenzy, part unsettling meditation.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:36PM“If your desire is to keep creating theater, then keep creating theater,” said Exit Theatre Artistic Director Christina Augello.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMGeetha Reddy’s version of the ancient Indian epic, now in an Oakland Theater Project production, gives the Bay Area a gift.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:23PMIn ‘Corteo,’ which performs in San Jose, Oakland and S.F., the clown is like that uncle who still thinks you’re 4 when you’re 14.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:48PMTheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the region’s third-largest nonprofit theater, announced it needs the public’s help this month. But its plight is hardly unique in the industry.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 06:50PMThe Lower Bottom Playaz have their first permanent home in BAM House at 1540 Broadway, part of the Black Arts Movement Business District.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMLa Lengua Teatro en Español and Brava Theater’s U.S. premiere in San Francisco shows that domestic labor is anything but mundane.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:07PMPlaywright and San Francisco native Star Finch makes music of trash talk in this Magic Theatre and Campo Santo world premiere.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:53PMIn Cupertino’s Memorial Park — where the tour kicked off before heading to Redwood City, San Francisco and Orinda — the play is unhelped by literal and figurative barriers between stag…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:25PMThe show, about the Queen of Rock and Roll, written by Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, suffers from many of the perennial problems of jukebox musicals.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMMargo Hall and Ellen Sebastian Chang first collaborated at Magic Theatre 30 years ago, and now the pair reunite for Star Finch’s world premiere.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM“It was a heavy, rolling, deep-like grief,” says star of the musical about the Queen of Rock & Roll, which plays at BroadwaySF and Broadway San Jose.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMA quick survey of local theaters of various sizes shows subscription declines of 23% to 61% since the pandemic hit.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMArt needn’t always champion virtue and punish evil, but there’s a difference between portraying misogyny and perpetuating it.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:17PM
