Circus 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.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:43PMWith “Nightlight,” about light pollution, the plucky and whimsical Imaginists dance on theater’s boundaries.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:33PMThough not without its hiccups, indie show “A Nightmare on Elm St Holiday Special” is sure to titillate horror fans and indie theater aficionados.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:40PMIn “Galileo,” Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza is set to play the astronomer who argued for heliocentrism, even if it meant giving up his freedom.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:04PM“The Allure of Thug Life” shows great promise in its kaleidoscopic vision of both Blackness and rap.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:09PMThe biggest change in this year’s incarnation, at the Victoria Theatre, is that Coco Peru is playing the role originated by spoof co-creator Heklina, who died in April.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:21PMThe Broadway star proved the best place to hear musical theater numbers might be the San Francisco Symphony.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:19PMThe solo cabaret musical at Marin Theatre Company makes a family’s origin story in a Manila nightclub feel as mighty as myth.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:42PM“Harry Clarke,” David Cale’s one-man play, is about the intoxicating fantasy of becoming someone else.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:21PMTheatre Rhinoceros is producing gay theater in the Castro for the first time in its 46-year history.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:50PMAt Aurora Theatre, Michael Gene Sullivan’s harrowing stage adaption of George Orwell’s novel prickles the skin, pinches nerves and lodges in the viscera.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:23PMIndie offerings from Bow & Arrow Circus Theatre Collective, Misfit Cabaret, the Imaginists and more sparkle and chime this holiday season.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMPlays by Tony Kushner, Martyna Majok and Michael Wayne Turner III continue the 12-year-old company’s proud tradition of staggering ambition.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:18PMPlaywright and Berkeley native Eisa Davis devises an idiom so resplendent, so discerning, it induces chills and shudders.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:53PMAlex Edelman’s “Just for Us” at the Curran is a triumph of contemporary Jewish humor.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:34PMChurch of Clown in Visitacion Valley crowns a local clowning scene that has long rendered the profession’s stereotypes irrelevant.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAn abrupt change in the council’s funding process and its non-communication to applicants led to confusion and dismay.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMGreg Sarris’ story, set among Santa Rosa day laborers and staged at Z Below, testifies to the power of keen observation.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:33PMCutting Ball Theater’s remarkable production of “Rossum’s Universal Robots” reads as a cri de coeur in the age of Alexa, Siri and Waymo.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:41PM“Tiny Fires,” a world premiere by Aimee Suzara, will be Custom Made Theatre Company’s last show for the foreseeable future.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:50PM“Our audience is not going to be a monolith,” Lance Gardner told the Chronicle of his plans for the Mill Valley company.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PMCrowded Fire Theater’s revealing West Coast premiere about the complexities of a parasocial relationship delivers Bay Area theater’s biggest surprise of the fall.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:05PMThe San Francisco comedian’s 14th solo show is inspired by her time as a cruise ship entertainer.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:51PMHeidi Armbruster’s champagne flute of a play, now in a TheatreWorks Silicon Valley West Coast premiere, is about Agatha Christie’s 1926 disappearance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:11PMIn Annie Danger’s piece at CounterPulse, part of the Tenderloin company’s namesake festival, audience members compete for real cash prizes.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:18PMI know my writing — or choice not to write — about a company can affect its bottom line.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMJocelyn Bioh’s West Coast premiere following Nigerian film in the 1990s is about romantic melodrama — both onscreen and off the set.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:30PMThe West Coast premiere of Heidi Armbruster’s play digs into the mystery author’s real-life 11-day disappearance that was never explained.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMAll 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.”
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