All four slots in the San Francisco theater’s 2024 lineup are world premieres. “It’s the only way to do it,” lead director Sean San José told the Chronicle.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:58PMThe sixth haunted attraction by Into the Dark, which comprises Peaches Christ, David Flower Productions and Non Plus Ultra, has just the gory frights and cultish imagery to make your stomach…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:56PMNew Executive Director Clive Worsley said he’s faced strong opposition to his vision, but assures audiences, “We’re not taking the Shakespeare away.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01AMBerkeley Rep’s production of Selina Fillinger’s play slyly posits farce as the path toward feminist revolution.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:07PMGov. Gavin Newsom reallocated $11.5 million to the Equitable Payroll Fund to help small arts nonprofits recover from the pandemic and comply with AB5.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:04PMDreams on the Rocks Productions’ Eclectic Box is slated to be a home for companies affected by PianoFight’s closure.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:00PMTaylor Mac’s sequel to Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” creates a canvas for artists to lead our revolts.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:54PMCrowded Fire Theater’s West Coast premiere of “Edit Annie” already reflects its new leadership makeup.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMHansol Jung’s play about a Korean adoptee galvanizes powers of make-believe.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMThe plot of Ray of Light Theatre’s production is sometimes mere scaffolding on which to hang songs, and that’s OK.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:49PMThe Marsh Berkeley’s production about Black career railroad men lacks the particular alchemy of solo shows but triumphs with careful pacing, vivid characters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:15PMIn Liz Duffy Adams’ firecracker of a two-hander about William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, actor Dean Linnard has a show that gives full expression to his artistic prowess.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:35PMLisa Peterson’s adaptation trounces the notion that Homer’s poem is irrelevant or that its interpretative possibilities have been exhausted.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:02PMHighlights this season include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, CounterPulse and We Players.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSanta Cruz Shakespeare hit 114% of its box-office goal for the year before its summer season even finished.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAmerican Conservatory Theater’s world premiere musical about the legendary TV series asks, “How do our stories live in our bodies?”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSan Francisco performer Michael Phillis simultaneously spoofs human resources and serves as the field’s underdog champion.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMPaul Whitworth in the tragedy’s title role gives line readings that leave flesh wounds.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:13PMTheatreFirst in Berkeley joins a rapidly growing list of shuttered Bay Area theaters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:50PMBridgette Loriaux’s direction of Shakespeare’s love tangle is part whipped hormone frenzy, part unsettling meditation.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:36PM“If your desire is to keep creating theater, then keep creating theater,” said Exit Theatre Artistic Director Christina Augello.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMGeetha Reddy’s version of the ancient Indian epic, now in an Oakland Theater Project production, gives the Bay Area a gift.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:23PMIn ‘Corteo,’ which performs in San Jose, Oakland and S.F., the clown is like that uncle who still thinks you’re 4 when you’re 14.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:48PMTheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the region’s third-largest nonprofit theater, announced it needs the public’s help this month. But its plight is hardly unique in the industry.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 06:50PMThe Lower Bottom Playaz have their first permanent home in BAM House at 1540 Broadway, part of the Black Arts Movement Business District.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMLa Lengua Teatro en Español and Brava Theater’s U.S. premiere in San Francisco shows that domestic labor is anything but mundane.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:07PMPlaywright and San Francisco native Star Finch makes music of trash talk in this Magic Theatre and Campo Santo world premiere.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:53PMIn Cupertino’s Memorial Park — where the tour kicked off before heading to Redwood City, San Francisco and Orinda — the play is unhelped by literal and figurative barriers between stag…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:25PMThe show, about the Queen of Rock and Roll, written by Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, suffers from many of the perennial problems of jukebox musicals.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMMargo Hall and Ellen Sebastian Chang first collaborated at Magic Theatre 30 years ago, and now the pair reunite for Star Finch’s world premiere.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM“It was a heavy, rolling, deep-like grief,” says star of the musical about the Queen of Rock & Roll, which plays at BroadwaySF and Broadway San Jose.
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