“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 07:00AMCutting Ball Theater and In the Margin’s world premiere is set partly in a late-capitalist pizza chain, partly during a shrooms trip in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:19PMAwesome Theatre’s production proves that Hot Topic is a fertile setting for a gothic romance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMOther highlights at the Orpheum and Golden Gate theatres include “Company” and “The Wiz.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:55PMUniformed park rangers are among the actors at the unique company, and Mother Nature is the set designer.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM“Change Your Mind,” the first public offering from collective Say Nothing and Leave, gets right what much immersive theater gets wrong.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:27PMIn Josh Costello’s adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s classic, the title character comes off as an antagonist. Of the audience.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:10PMJaime Castañeda’s direction at the S.F. theater evinces that DNA-deep understanding of what makes a playwright special and important.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:59PMMichael Mayer, Octavio Solís, Lloyd Suh and Eric Ting will alight on the flagship Berkeley company next year.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:55PMThe beloved S.F. drag icon, who was found dead on Monday, April 3, triumphed during the pandemic in Meals on Heels.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMHighlights of the Silicon Valley company’s 53rd lineup include “How I Learned What I Learned,” “Queen” and “Tiger Style!”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:00PMIn leaving room for subtext, Sanaz Toossi’s West Coast premiere trusts actors and directors to coauthor a play’s meaning, showing understanding of how real people talk.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:48AMThe Berkeley company has long distinguished itself as the Bay Area’s theater of intellectual debate.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:27PMAleshea Harris’ revenge Western emerges from our zeitgeisty concerns and tensions, yet feels as old as humanity.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:07PMThere are so many war fronts and stratagems in Pierre Carlet De Marivaux’s 1732 dramedy that a battle map wouldn’t be out of order.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:43PM“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 10:00PMWith Mona Pirnot’s West Coast premiere, you’ll never look at workplace monitoring the same way again.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:13PMAmerican 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 07:00AMMonica 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 07:00AMKathryn Keats’ solo show about her real-life captivity is testament to the messy, always in-progress act of survival.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:15PMSusi 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 01:55PMHow can video games improve story and character? With Bay Area playwrights and stage actors.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM"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 07:00AMLauren 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 01:58PMThe local theater community rallied around Erin Merritt to ensure she could direct "Tea Party" by Gordon Dahlquist.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe 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 07:47PMDirector 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 01:59PMToby 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 04:23PMGusting winds twice stalled opening night of a new musical, by Lauren M. Gunderson, Bree Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan, about female Supreme Court trailblazers.
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