Friday, July 22, 2022
Just 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 03:13PMThis San Francisco production of a 50-year-old Stephen Sondheim musical speaks pointedly to 2022, writes theater critic Lily Janiak.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:16PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Eric Ting's exit from Cal Shakes ends a dynamic, artistically vibrant seven-year tenure that's given the Bay Area some of its finest theater in recent memory.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PMWith the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the university's database suggests many unclaimed opportunities for screenwriters and TV showrunners.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, July 18, 2022
If you've seen pretty much any other American family play, you can predict what Vickie Ramirez's characters will say and do.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:26PMSunday, July 17, 2022
Jessica Dickey's play says the invention of the pap smear is not just a textbook entry; it's about jumbly, wriggly human lives.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:49PMFriday, July 15, 2022
Lily Janiak says the audience is one of the best parts of "The Queen's Ball," the "Bridgerton"-inspired immersive experience at San Francisco's SVN West.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:07PMThursday, July 14, 2022
The appointment comes at a pivotal era as the hit-making company Berkeley Rep, and theater nationwide, strive to recover from the pandemic.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PMLily Janiak reviews Martyna Majok's "Sanctuary City" at Berkeley Rep, an immigrant love story where feelings can be selfish and unselfish all at once.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:57PMSaturday, July 9, 2022
The object of disruption at the dating show, presented at PianoFight in San Francisco, is the much-used, much-maligned app Tinder.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:28PMWednesday, July 6, 2022
Since 1968, Peter Brook's "The Empty Space" has been sending generations of theater makers for their pencil sharpeners.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMBay Area experts in fashion, dance and history weigh in to help you make the most out of the "Queen's Ball" immersive experience from Netflix.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMPractically overnight, immersive theater in the Bay Area has a major new player. Lily Janiak speaks with local power players of the medium about the trend.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, July 5, 2022
Returning to summer parks for the first time since the pandemic hit, the Mime Troupe delivers as if only intention matters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:54PMFriday, July 1, 2022
Jaclyn Backhaus' play, now in a West Coast premiere at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company, can be overly didactic at times, but a passionate yearning drives it.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:22PMThursday, June 23, 2022
The show about Broadway stars and a small-town lesbian serves as a fun kick-off to San Francisco's Pride Weekend.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:39PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
As Ariel Craft departs Cutting Ball, Bay Area theater professionals who recently gave birth reflect on family-work balance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSaturday, June 18, 2022
"It is a bit of trip going from community college student to executive," union actor Sean Fenton joked.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Berkeley Rep, Teatro Visión, TheatreWorks and Cutting Ball Theater all have auspicious summer offerings.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSaturday, June 11, 2022
Immersive theater is an art. Dear Netflix, please let local theater artists help you make this better.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:33PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Lucas Hnath's play about his mother's real-life kidnapping haunts as only nonfiction can.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:16PMThursday, June 9, 2022
Anaïs Mitchell's score can chug like a freight train or clang and gasp like the pistons and gaskets of Hades' foundry in this production at the Orpheum Theatre.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:45PMMonday, June 6, 2022
"The Mojo and the Sayso" is sharp about the ways that family can live right on top of each other without ever intersecting.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:31PMOrpheus "almost can't live in the reality of the world around him, and for that reason he lets down Eurydice," Anaïs Mitchell said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, June 5, 2022
Karen Zacarías' bilingual adaptation invites non-Spanish-speaking audiences to whet our powers of comprehension.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:28PMFriday, June 3, 2022
Sexy clowns, staple guns, beds of nails and comet tails of sparks are some of the acts in the Ruckus and Rumpus Revival, formerly Tourettes Without Regrets.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:19PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
In Marin Theatre Company's new production, a mutual appreciation for the author's inner life makes possible an unlikely friendship, and an intriguing mystery.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:44PM"For a long time, acting had always been a way for me to be something other than myself," said alum Liz Sklar.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe acting program that trained Denzel Washington, Annette Bening and Elizabeth Banks is closing because of financial difficulties.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, May 31, 2022
Sarah Ruhl's "Smile" and "Melancholy Play" offer gems of lyricism and spiritual solace in a grief-riven era.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, May 23, 2022
"Your job as a director is to know the play well enough to identify when someone else has a better idea," he says.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM 
