529 stories by "Lily Janiak"
The season concludes with "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," a jukebox musical recounting the icon's hard-won victories.
The inventive 10-year-old company is ever worthy of attention, even when individual shows don't quite hit the mark.
Stone-melting, fire-spewing, bone-crunching special effects pack more power in a one-part "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
Ushers, house managers and security staff are in the crosshairs of audience members' diametrically opposed preferences.
Schirle was an accordionist, a ballerina, a mask artist, a playwright, an actor and a scholar.
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's play, part of a wave of works by Black writers on Broadway last year, is penetrating in insight.
Fitz is less a character who's lived a life before the play starts than a concept a playwright might pluck out of the ether.
Raphael Massie of Oregon Shakespeare Festival succeeds the not-quite-retiring Robert Currier at the San Rafael company.
Rhetoric is both air raid siren and war cry in Will Arbery's Pulitzer Prize finalist.
"It is strange to have it all swept away " all at once, and slowly," said Allison Page, executive artistic director of sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster.
"Battles in scarcity economies become incredibly ugly for what seem to outsiders like very small stakes," Tony Kushner said.
These trans-positive projects transcend a time-honored question: whether it's possible to separate art from a problematic artist.
The idea for the show sprang in part from co-creator Othello Jefferson's ritual of reading Black poetry to his two daughters.
The Avett Brothers musical asks: When a whaling voyage goes horribly awry, how far would you go to stay alive?
Blasphemously talented singers, beatboxers and rappers cook up, on the fly, a miniature hip-hop opera about your day.
Meñez is the final piece of Z Space's new distributive leadership model.
"There can be the stress of whether you match up, whether you're quote-unquote 'as good,'" Nic A. Sommerfeld said.
Actors at TheatreWorks, Bay Area Children's Theatre, Berkeley Rep and more share the thrills and chills of filling in last-minute.
The quiet assurance of the Tony-winning show at BroadwaySF's Golden Gate Theatre almost makes other musicals look insecure.
For a city of fewer than 125,000 residents, Berkeley has an outsize reputation as an arts destination in part because of Medak.
"I love what happens when you have an audience meeting artists halfway," Berkeley Rep's Susie Medak said.
The Tony-winning musical about isolation and waiting might strike pandemic-era audiences differently.
The new policy adheres to a San Francisco Department of Public Health order applying to operators of indoor "mega-events."
For too long now, we've allowed a region with first-class performers to make its art so physically inaccessible.
Shows by SFBATCO, Berkeley Rep, Oakland Theater Project and more gleam in Bay Area theater in 2022.
