529 stories by "Lily Janiak"
At its best, Cleavon Smith's world-premiere commission is both academic boxing match and artistic playground.
Two actors of color have left the Berkeley Playhouse production after protests over the casting of the Urchins, roles inspired by Black girl groups of the '60s.
In Lark's world-premiere musical, "Coming Soon" at Z Space, Maggie has been faking orgasms for eight years.
In theater, Cleavon Smith says, "stories moved. Every line someone speaks or doesn't speak is a decision."
S.F. native Christopher Chen, the 7 Fingers and Qui Nguyen are highlights in American Conservatory Theater's next season.
"Tina " The Tina Turner Musical" wraps up the season with a biographical musical about the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll.
Tim Bond's direction of August Wilson's play makes for one of the finest Bay Area theater productions in recent memory.
As a love triangle, Adam Ashraf Elsayigh's world premiere works stupendously. As a timeline, it falls flat.
Yilong Liu's world premiere about an intergenerational gay romance veers into scolding, I-told-you-so didacticism.
Typical grant amounts range from $30,000 to $45,000, and a baker's dozen of Bay Area residents are among the winners.
Under Pam MacKinnon's direction, "Fefu" is art that's worthy of a city as dynamic and inventive as San Francisco.
In Yussef El Guindi's world premiere, a decades-long marriage unravels in a single day, a single conversation.
The Union Square company's 20th-anniversary season comprises six shows including works by Paula Vogel and David Henry Hwang.
Unlike words, fabric never tells lies in this 2003 play by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage.
Yilong Liu's queer fantasia about the drug used to prevent HIV infection is in synergy with the theater's own narrative of remembering and mourning.
Still, there are plenty of joys to be had from this Pultizer Prize winner by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, of "In the Heights" fame.
Artistic directors finally make long-delayed directing debuts, and musicians make their musical theater debuts.
American Conservatory Theater's production of MarÃa Irene Fornés' "Fefu and Her Friends" shines a light on a playwright never given her just due.
In Paul Gordon's musical adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," the contrast between the Dashwood sisters takes on new resonance.
The Tony Award-winning musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald offers nothing less than a vision of what it is to be human.
American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks and Oregon Shakespeare Festival have all paused internship programs.
Dan Hoyle's show at the Marsh suggests there might not be that much drama, variety or depth within liberal, white, affluent male guilt.
Audiences to this sound-driven show from the Dutch collective Urland might find themselves transported back to childhood.
San Francisco artist Patricia Diart got the idea for "The Cape" after seeing the video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck in 2020.
National Theatre Productions is "unable to say with confidence when the show can arrive in the Bay Area."
