One of the myriad gifts of "Indecent" is that it endows Asch with the full, flawed humanity that Broadway denies his characters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PM"There was no reason to think that I wouldn't get paid," Sharron Drake of Inverness Theatre Project said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMarin Theatre Company's production feels a bit like the endless Scottish mud and cold that characters keep complaining about.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:48PM"Darwin wondered if the smile was shaped by evolution, just like bones and beaks and legs," Isabella Rossellini said ahead of her show in San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM"Passengers" by "Dear San Francisco" co-creator Shana Carroll makes meaning and rhythm from the everyday shuffle of train travel.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:14PMThe "transformative" gift, the largest the theater has ever received, will go partly toward building improvements.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:33PMAmerica's peculiar, extreme notion of freedom insists on the right to be free from judgment for our thoughts and actions.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:05PMThe pain of segregating swimming pools ripples through generations in Christina Anderson's world premiere.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:21PM"To Kill a Mockingbird" can still help us heal, not least because of its unshakeable faith in children.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:07PMThe world-premiere adaptation, set in a Black milieu by Oakland native Marcus Gardley, feels like a mighty unlocking.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:08PMBroadwaySF is giving away 5,000 copies of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and 250 play tickets.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:54PMTheater demands a high level of emotional labor relative to many other industries.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe brio of the vanguard is as strong as ever at this year's festival, the company's 31st.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:53PMThe production at BroadwaySF's Orpheum Theatre might be the musicaliest musical that ever musicaled a musical.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:05PMJonathan Spector's world premiere combines deep respect for its audience with infectious enthusiasm for its intellectual preoccupations.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:15PM"Everyone thought it was just going to last forever," said Exit staffer and San Francisco director, writer and producer Stuart Bousel.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe most stunning achievement of the world premiere is that in promising a goddess of music, it delivers.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:42PMBerkeley Rep's new Medak Center, which opens this fall, will also have extra rooms to share with other local arts companies.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMStagings from Aurora Theatre Company, SFBATCO and Central Works are among the season's tantalizing offerings.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe stalwart Tenderloin venue with three small theaters and a cafe, home of the San Francisco Fringe Festival, is closing its doors by the end of 2022.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMDaniel Fish's production, running through Sept. 11 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre, is far more than legacy musical theater.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:36PM"They can't see a person. They only hear an accent," said Virginia Blanco, founder of La Lengua Teatro en Español.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM"We don't nor should we have the power to determine someone else's interpretation of the show," Fish says of his Tony Award winner, making a stop at BroadwaySF.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMRebecca Ennals said, "If I'm tired, maybe it's not my fault. Maybe something's wrong with the system."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM"Harry Poofter" at Oasis asserts that J.K. Rowling doesn't have a monopoly on artistic creation or meaning making.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 10:20AMThe Mill Valley company's six-play subscription season has been reduced to four, but with a new festival added.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:00PMIn a sparkly Champagne-colored gown, Broadway royalty Bernadette Peters enlisted everything around her as part of her instrument.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:33PMEliana Pipes' play builds to one of the most dangerous, genuinely original scenes recently on display on any Bay Area stage.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:01PMPreviously, the Curran was home to an array of high-budget but daring theater that few other venues could or would pull off.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:25PM"The Empire Strips Back" parody at the Great Star Theater in San Francisco doesn't so much mock as pay tribute to George Lucas' imagination
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:14PMJust how racist and ignorant would you have to be to act as Claire acts, Danielle Evans' "Boys Go to Jupiter" asks.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:13PM
