Art needn’t always champion virtue and punish evil, but there’s a difference between portraying misogyny and perpetuating it.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:17PMBilly Crudup, known for his work in “Almost Famous” and “The Morning Show,” reprises his off-Broadway role.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PMIn Bill English’s hands, the 1975 musical reads as a chronicle of our own time.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMA more precise genre for “Breakdown,” and for much of the San Francisco troupe’s work in recent years, might be the medieval morality play.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:02PMJosh Kornbluth’s piece doesn’t feel like a solo show so much as an endless pitch for a solo show.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMDirector Jon Tracy casts scenes in fresh light that laypeople like you and me never would have thought of.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:50PMWeird for the sake of weird, or playground for imagination? Bring your own attitude to this performance art by Klanghaus.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:32PMTony winner and Berkeley native Ari’el Stachel is half-Yemeni Israeli, half-Ashkenazi and 1000% sweat.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:38PMAt Nicki Jizz’s monthly all-Black drag show at Oasis, if you don’t tip, you’re racist.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s production is fertile comedic ground where six whip-smart female actors make hay.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:12PMAthol Fugard’s 1984 drama feels ripe for our own moment of increasing life expectancy amid a fraying social safety net.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:04PMAttending Sam Pinkleton’s production is like getting to see a beloved relative who hasn’t been around since your childhood.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:36PMTheatreWorks actors took a field trip to a family-owned beauty shop to learn how professionals style textured and fine hair.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSeason highlights include San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theatre and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMBlood spills like a curtain, dribbles like egg yolk and curdles like a swamp thing in Jack Thorne’s adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:07PMDirector Sam Pinkleton’s cast list reveals Bay Area actors anew, but for potential they’ve always had.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSara Porkalob, Lisa Peterson and Harvey Fierstein are part of the Mill Valley company’s next lineup.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMBay Area Children’s Theatre's abrupt shuttering is only the latest blow to local theater’s struggle to recover from the pandemic.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 06:36PMJeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus’ production dispels the old boys’ club with multiracial female, nonbinary and trans performers.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:33PMTodayTix and Theatre Bay Area’s promotion offers discounts to Ray of Light, BroadwaySF and many more.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:00PMDavid Henry Hwang’s play is comedy’s equivalent of being in Davies Symphony Hall.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:10PMIn Marin Theatre Company’s West Coast premiere, you might wish Satya Chávez had a script to match their talent and craft.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:55PMPlaywrights Foundation, which has fostered Christopher Chen and Lauren Gunderson, announces structural changes to meet theater’s new reality.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:50PMThe musical based on the Robin Williams film, with its onslaught of “man-in-a-dress” gags, helps make possible and justify oppressive laws.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMarc Anthony Thompson’s world premiere about escaping slavery is satire that doesn’t say, “Eat your vegetables.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:38PMDetour Dance’s “We Build Houses Here,” about castaways, inspires in audiences a perpetual feeling of FOMO.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:11PMThe move marks an about-face from the attitude the Oakland native displayed in a February interview with The Chronicle.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:25PMThe irony of Bay Area Children’s Theatre’s campaign is that demand for its work — in both performance venues and school classrooms — is as high as ever.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:02PMWe Players’ site-specific, immersive walk-through show adapting Lewis Carroll polishes an San Francisco jewel to a fresh gleam.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:20PMBook writers J. F. Lawton and Garry Marshall make some small updates to the Julia Roberts-Richard Gere film, but they can’t paper over the story’s core ickiness.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:19PM“We don’t want to bleed for our art; we want to make art, and we want to be happy and compensated,” said Cutting Ball Theater Community and Education Director Cathryn Cooper.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM
