"Into the Woods" is the first major show in the Curran since "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" departed in September.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:45PMTheatreWorks Silicon Valley suggests just how many more shadings, facets and worlds the musical theater canon still has to show us.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:59PMCustom Made and FaultLine Theater's co-production is perfect for fans of homegrown theater who tire of the same old holiday fare.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:16PMIn August Wilson's play, it makes sense to put all your faith in the lotto, even when you know the game is rigged.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:42PMKeyComp could make it possible for a single synthesizer player to replicate the sound of a large orchestra with unprecedented flexibility.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAt a recent "Two Trains Running" rehearsal at Marin Theatre Company, director Dawn Monique Williams led with conspiratorial joy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMarin Theatre Company's artistic director departs at a time when many are questioning whether the demands of theater leadership are worth the rewards.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:30PMIf you grew up on Disney princesses whose narrative arcs drove unswervingly toward heterosexual marriage, "Frozen" opens refreshing possibilities.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:45PMThe small theater led by Michael Socrates Moran and William Hodgson is consistently one of the most vital and exciting in the Bay Area.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMNext spring, Larissa FastHorse's script will be the first play by a Native American woman on Broadway.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:09PMCustom Made Theatre Company, FaultLine Theater and African-American Shakespeare Company are among 2022's seasonal standouts.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMPerforming at NCTC is especially meaningful for Marken, since Artistic Director Ed Decker first recommended him for an audition.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMShotgun Players' "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" isn't just another transitory set on the same-old stage.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:35PMOn one downtown Berkeley block, phở is both dinner and theater for two Chronicle critics.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:07PM"Ain't Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations" epitomizes one essential function of the jukebox musical.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:58PM"Everybody always thinks 'Wuthering Heights' is romantic, and it so isn't," director Emma Rice told The Chronicle.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe Berkeley theater company's season selection committee operates by consensus; each member has veto power.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:00PMAccusations include bullying, micromanagement, gaslighting and unsafe working conditions, including inadequate COVID policies.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAdrienne Price's world-premiere musical writes an origin story for queer and trans San Francisco audiences.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:58PMThe one-woman show in a dairy barn is grounded in Vivien Straus' self-awareness that both she and all the cows in her life are a bit ridiculous.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM"Pony" is part of an exciting new wave of trans theater that's no longer limited to narratives of transitions and reveals.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:06PMNaghmeh Samini's U.S. premiere is partly about how we can be sick to death of someone yet feast hungrily on them.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:14PMBaloney queers Kubrick, and a theater critic learns about flogging.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:06PMThe musical flattens Alanis Morissette's songs into ambient lobby music, distends them into dirges or simply blasts through.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:12PM"The Hummingbird" is "about two people who fell through the cracks, and one made it out alive, and one didn't," Kathryn Keats said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM"If we can name it better, then we can try and do it better," said Lead Director Sean San José.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:19PMSFBATCO's "The Day the Sky Turned Orange" in the New Roots Theatre Festival invites us to process unresolved collective trauma.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSentiment works because it's predictable, because it reassures rather than probes or challenges, which can make it at odds with art.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSB1116, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sept. 29, could mean more of your favorite artists are able to stay in the Bay Area.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PMCal Shakes hired Clive Worsley as executive director and plans to refocus on co-producing and presenting others' work at the Bruns Amphitheater in Orinda.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:00AMOne of the myriad gifts of "Indecent" is that it endows Asch with the full, flawed humanity that Broadway denies his characters.
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