Monday, 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 07:00AMThe press secretary is representing someone else, playing a part, telling a story, and the media isn't just an audience, but representatives, too.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, May 22, 2022
Adam Bock's play anatomizes our tethers to the world around us and exposes their fragility.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:35PMSaturday, May 21, 2022
Árpád Schilling's play seeks to delineate how just a couple small disturbances can fester, eating away our social fabric.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:27PMThursday, May 19, 2022
It's a refreshing return to pre-pandemic numbers when many others' output remains reduced.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:30PMMonday, May 16, 2022
Árpád Schilling doesn't think of himself as Hungarian. "I'm European, or I'm a human," he says.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, May 15, 2022
Sam Chanse's world premiere collects a bunch of finely etched fragments but lets each crumble just as it begins to glimmer.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:42PMFriday, May 13, 2022
Yes, the Oakland theater artist, poet and stylist, 30, really dresses this way all the time, seven days a week.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Jessica Huang's play painstakingly diagrams the human-sized ripple effects of racist U.S. immigration policy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:40PMMonday, May 9, 2022
Berkeley Rep has a long, proud history of developing and launching musicals that go on to have great success on larger stages.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:03PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
The Texas law deputizing ordinary citizens as bounty hunters of those who aid and abet abortions recalls the witch hunt in "The Crucible."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:50PMFriday, April 29, 2022
With under $200,000 of investment, the nearly 100-year-old venue is up and running after years of disrepair.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:06PMThursday, April 28, 2022
Composer Dave Malloy makes the internet take musical form in this Berkeley production, which runs through May 29.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:59PM"We have dreams coming to this country, but we start realizing we don't know when we'll be able to hug our parents again."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Students created "Womyn" from interviews they conducted with participants in the successful protest against the administration's decision to go coed.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, April 24, 2022
The Cal Performances production takes pains to make the arguments that slavery is bad, that power corrupts, that "violence begets violence."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:30PMSaturday, April 23, 2022
Eight years in, as Mark wants to take their relationship to the next level, Maggie's sexual life flashes before her eyes.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:37PMFriday, April 22, 2022
At its best, Cleavon Smith's world-premiere commission is both academic boxing match and artistic playground.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:25PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Two actors of color have left the Berkeley Playhouse production after protests over the casting of the Urchins, roles inspired by Black girl groups of the '60s.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMMonday, April 18, 2022
In Lark's world-premiere musical, "Coming Soon" at Z Space, Maggie has been faking orgasms for eight years.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSunday, April 17, 2022
In theater, Cleavon Smith says, "stories moved. Every line someone speaks or doesn't speak is a decision."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMFriday, April 15, 2022
S.F. native Christopher Chen, the 7 Fingers and Qui Nguyen are highlights in American Conservatory Theater's next season.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:00PMThursday, April 14, 2022
"Tina — The Tina Turner Musical" wraps up the season with a biographical musical about the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PMWednesday, April 13, 2022
Tim Bond's direction of August Wilson's play makes for one of the finest Bay Area theater productions in recent memory.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:46PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
As a love triangle, Adam Ashraf Elsayigh's world premiere works stupendously. As a timeline, it falls flat.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:01PMSunday, April 10, 2022
Yilong Liu's world premiere about an intergenerational gay romance veers into scolding, I-told-you-so didacticism.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:27PMThursday, April 7, 2022
Typical grant amounts range from $30,000 to $45,000, and a baker's dozen of Bay Area residents are among the winners.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:13PMUnder Pam MacKinnon's direction, "Fefu" is art that's worthy of a city as dynamic and inventive as San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:09PMWednesday, April 6, 2022
In Yussef El Guindi's world premiere, a decades-long marriage unravels in a single day, a single conversation.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:04PMMonday, April 4, 2022
The Union Square company's 20th-anniversary season comprises six shows including works by Paula Vogel and David Henry Hwang.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 09:00AMUnlike words, fabric never tells lies in this 2003 play by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM 
