Walking Cinema’s “The Fillmore Eclipse” is set in a 1950s jazz joint the night before its bulldozing.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:09PMMichael R. Jackson’s West Coast premiere at the Toni Rembe Theater in San Francisco summons the gods of lighting, music, set design and costume.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:42PMWitnessing Ghassan Kanafani’s 1969 barn burner onstage is like discovering a midcentury classic.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:32PMIn Torange Yeghizaran’s world premiere, three characters fill the playing space to bursting.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:52PMMike Lew’s comedy at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is balm for any thwarted adult who’s ever fantasized, “I’m gonna yell at my mom like a white girl.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:11PMPieces such as S.F. Ballet’s ‘Mere Mortals’ help us understand our place in the ChatGPT era.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSan Jose Stage Company’s West Coast premiere about an English hangman forced into early retirement trades moralizing for high style.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe S.F. native’s solo show at American Conservatory Theater tells the true story of how a strawberry red Hello Kitty sewing machine started a mutual aid society.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01PMTwo world premieres and the return of rotating rep are among the goodies in the 59-year-old San Francisco company’s lineup.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PMMartyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play writes characters with disabilities who aren’t defined by their physical limitations.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:26PMThough some moments shine, San Francisco Playhouse’s production is mostly a joyless sprawl of unmade choices.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:53PMLloyd Suh’s Pulitzer Prize finalist insists on the dignity of those who came to San Francisco during the Chinese Exclusion Act.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:28PMThis season’s highlights include Klanghaus, African-American Shakespeare Company and Killing My Lobster, among many others.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAshley Smiley’s Magic Theatre world premiere is SOS alert and valentine, high-tech heist and keenly observed family portrait.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:14PMElevator Repair Service’s “Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge” at Cal Performances permits no self-congratulation about racial progress.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:37PM“Our goal this evening is to make you queer,” or queerer still, Taylor Mac said near the top of the sweeping, 55-song show at Cal Performances.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:19PMKate Attwell’s frame-splitting, acute yet expansive script is about how complicit we are in tech’s takeover of both our interactions and consciousnesses.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:26PMMarin Theatre Company’s actors have a muffled quality, as if they’re hoping to believe, rather than actually believing, what they’re saying.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:57PMACT’s “Big Data” by Kate Attwell says that when we give up our digital privacy, our homes, family, love and sex lives feel the cost.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM“Kimberly Akimbo” and “& Juliet” are among the highlights of next year’s offerings from the owner of the Orpheum, Golden Gate and Curran theaters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:30PMMinna Lee’s play asks: In a simulation where all your existential crises are gone and everything’s hunky-dory, why even bother doing anything?
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:29PMAny play or musical must compete with all the “para-theater” in rows of audience seats, or at least the possibility that some might happen.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAt the opening night of Deneen Reynolds-Knott’s world premiere about Black college students, the crowd layered on their own soundtrack, to glorious effect.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:16PMThe ACT regular stars in TheatreWorks’ “How I Learned What I Learned,” his fourth airing in August Wilson’s one-man show since 2019.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM“His visions often seem impossible to me,” said Michael Torres of new Marin Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Jon Tracy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMThe one-woman play by Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes delves into the justice’s brilliant legal strategy on sex discrimination.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:54PMThe novel, about an ambitious mid-30s theater critic, made me reflect on the joy, terror and harsh reality of writing about theater.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTitles at Shotgun Players, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company and Cutting Ball Theater point to a new era in the new year.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMFrom cleverly reimagined classics to entirely original performance art, these companies produced some of the best theater in the Bay Area.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMOne Christmas ghost will haunt the rafters of American Conservatory Theater’s Toni Rembe Theater no more.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 11:04AMCircus Bella’s show at the Crossing at East Cut might make you wonder why S.F. doesn’t use more performing arts to enliven neighborhoods.
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