529 stories by "Lily Janiak"
Marin Theatre Company's production feels a bit like the endless Scottish mud and cold that characters keep complaining about.
"Darwin wondered if the smile was shaped by evolution, just like bones and beaks and legs," Isabella Rossellini said ahead of her show in San Francisco.
"Passengers" by "Dear San Francisco" co-creator Shana Carroll makes meaning and rhythm from the everyday shuffle of train travel.
The "transformative" gift, the largest the theater has ever received, will go partly toward building improvements.
America's peculiar, extreme notion of freedom insists on the right to be free from judgment for our thoughts and actions.
The pain of segregating swimming pools ripples through generations in Christina Anderson's world premiere.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" can still help us heal, not least because of its unshakeable faith in children.
The world-premiere adaptation, set in a Black milieu by Oakland native Marcus Gardley, feels like a mighty unlocking.
BroadwaySF is giving away 5,000 copies of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and 250 play tickets.
Theater demands a high level of emotional labor relative to many other industries.
The brio of the vanguard is as strong as ever at this year's festival, the company's 31st.
The production at BroadwaySF's Orpheum Theatre might be the musicaliest musical that ever musicaled a musical.
Jonathan Spector's world premiere combines deep respect for its audience with infectious enthusiasm for its intellectual preoccupations.
"Everyone thought it was just going to last forever," said Exit staffer and San Francisco director, writer and producer Stuart Bousel.
The most stunning achievement of the world premiere is that in promising a goddess of music, it delivers.
Berkeley Rep's new Medak Center, which opens this fall, will also have extra rooms to share with other local arts companies.
Stagings from Aurora Theatre Company, SFBATCO and Central Works are among the season's tantalizing offerings.
The stalwart Tenderloin venue with three small theaters and a cafe, home of the San Francisco Fringe Festival, is closing its doors by the end of 2022.
Daniel Fish's production, running through Sept. 11 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre, is far more than legacy musical theater.
"They can't see a person. They only hear an accent," said Virginia Blanco, founder of La Lengua Teatro en Español.
"We don't nor should we have the power to determine someone else's interpretation of the show," Fish says of his Tony Award winner, making a stop at BroadwaySF.
Rebecca Ennals said, "If I'm tired, maybe it's not my fault. Maybe something's wrong with the system."
"Harry Poofter" at Oasis asserts that J.K. Rowling doesn't have a monopoly on artistic creation or meaning making.
The Mill Valley company's six-play subscription season has been reduced to four, but with a new festival added.
In a sparkly Champagne-colored gown, Broadway royalty Bernadette Peters enlisted everything around her as part of her instrument.
