529 stories by "Lily Janiak"
La Lengua Teatro en Español and Brava Theater's U.S. premiere in San Francisco shows that domestic labor is anything but mundane.
Playwright and San Francisco native Star Finch makes music of trash talk in this Magic Theatre and Campo Santo world premiere.
In Cupertino's Memorial Park " where the tour kicked off before heading to Redwood City, San Francisco and Orinda " the play is unhelped by literal and figurative barriers between stage and …
The show, about the Queen of Rock and Roll, written by Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, suffers from many of the perennial problems of jukebox musicals.
Margo Hall and Ellen Sebastian Chang first collaborated at Magic Theatre 30 years ago, and now the pair reunite for Star Finch's world premiere.
"It was a heavy, rolling, deep-like grief," says star of the musical about the Queen of Rock & Roll, which plays at BroadwaySF and Broadway San Jose.
A quick survey of local theaters of various sizes shows subscription declines of 23% to 61% since the pandemic hit.
Art needn't always champion virtue and punish evil, but there's a difference between portraying misogyny and perpetuating it.
Billy Crudup, known for his work in "Almost Famous" and "The Morning Show," reprises his off-Broadway role.Â
In Bill English's hands, the 1975 musical reads as a chronicle of our own time.
A more precise genre for "Breakdown," and for much of the San Francisco troupe's work in recent years, might be the medieval morality play.Â
Josh Kornbluth's piece doesn't feel like a solo show so much as an endless pitch for a solo show.
Director Jon Tracy casts scenes in fresh light that laypeople like you and me never would have thought of.
Weird for the sake of weird, or playground for imagination? Bring your own attitude to this performance art by Klanghaus.
Tony winner and Berkeley native Ari'el Stachel is half-Yemeni Israeli, half-Ashkenazi and 1000% sweat.
At Nicki Jizz's monthly all-Black drag show at Oasis, if you don't tip, you're racist.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's production is fertile comedic ground where six whip-smart female actors make hay.
Athol Fugard's 1984 drama feels ripe for our own moment of increasing life expectancy amid a fraying social safety net.
Attending Sam Pinkleton's production is like getting to see a beloved relative who hasn't been around since your childhood.
TheatreWorks actors took a field trip to a family-owned beauty shop to learn how professionals style textured and fine hair.
Season highlights include San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theatre and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
Blood spills like a curtain, dribbles like egg yolk and curdles like a swamp thing in Jack Thorne's adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel.
Director Sam Pinkleton's cast list reveals Bay Area actors anew, but for potential they've always had.Â
Sara Porkalob, Lisa Peterson and Harvey Fierstein are part of the Mill Valley company's next lineup.
Bay Area Children's Theatre's abrupt shuttering is only the latest blow to local theater's struggle to recover from the pandemic.
