By mounting a play that blends a murder mystery with the Slavic folklore figure of Baba Yaga, new artistic director Lance Gardner leads with a work of swirling complications.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:22PMThe production at Berkeley’s Ashby Stage struggles to find nimble footing, but still manages to entertain.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:14PMIn San Jose playwright Madhuri Shekar’s eco-play, two women dream of breaking academia's glass ceiling and rescuing honeybees.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:46PMThough Mary Kathryn Nagle’s play lays out carefully engineered juxtapositions, the Aurora Theatre production gets in its own way more often than not.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:40PMMost families dread the holiday season. The Dahls in Berkeley Repertory's latest drama, written by “Russian Doll” co-creator Leslye Headland, are no different.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 11:26AMSteven Anthony Jones bids farewell to Bay Area theater with his heroic tribute performance in “How I Learned What I Learned.”
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:58PMThe Grammy-winning Broadway performer provided an invigorating opening night to the 13th season of Bay Area Cabaret at the Venetian Room.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:07PMTraci Tolmaire’s heady docu-drama imagines a conversation between James Baldwin, Nina Simone and Lorraine Hansberry.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:40PMIn Madeleine George’s funny and foreboding play, the climate crisis is comically urgent.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:18PMThe S.F. company opens its 30th season with an inventive staging of George Saunders' short story about a vet dealing with the trauma of the battlefield.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:57PMThe one-woman tribute starring Greta Ogelsby delivers mostly uplifting message, though sheds light on how little progress U.S. has made.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:12PMIf the show doesn’t always conjure the magic, to paraphrase one of its lines, you’d have to try hard not to have fun and have your heart tugged along the way.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:59PMAs a sustained feat of musical tribute, “Halie!” stakes its claim in clear and often stirring musical terms. It’s as a bio-musical that the show falters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:04PMIf “Wuthering Heights” doesn’t equal the best of Emma Rice's works, it delivers plenty to savor and recollect.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:30PM"Otto Frank," a solo show starring the Berkeley-born actor, spreads out a cloak of human suffering and depravity from across the centuries and around the globe.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:13PMThe cause was metastatic breast cancer. There are tentative plans for a memorial service at Z Space in October.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 06:26PMJeanne Sakata’s documentary solo play reopened mainstream, live in-person theater to San Francisco. The production runs through July 3.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:13PMSan Francisco audiences are about to enter a theatrical time machine with the dial spun back 35 years. Where they land, in a warmly awaited musical "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City" tha…
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