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Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus' production dispels the old boys' club with multiracial female, nonbinary and trans performers.Â
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David Henry Hwang's play is comedy's equivalent of being in Davies Symphony Hall.
In Marin Theatre Company's West Coast premiere, you might wish Satya Chávez had a script to match their talent and craft.
Playwrights Foundation, which has fostered Christopher Chen and Lauren Gunderson, announces structural changes to meet theater's new reality.
The musical based on the Robin Williams film, with its onslaught of "man-in-a-dress" gags, helps make possible and justify oppressive laws.
Marc Anthony Thompson's world premiere about escaping slavery is satire that doesn't say, "Eat your vegetables."
Detour Dance's "We Build Houses Here," about castaways, inspires in audiences a perpetual feeling of FOMO.Â
The move marks an about-face from the attitude the Oakland native displayed in a February interview with The Chronicle.
The irony of Bay Area Children's Theatre's campaign is that demand for its work " in both performance venues and school classrooms " is as high as ever.
We Players' site-specific, immersive walk-through show adapting Lewis Carroll polishes an San Francisco jewel to a fresh gleam.
Book writers J. F. Lawton and Garry Marshall make some small updates to the Julia Roberts-Richard Gere film, but they can't paper over the story's core ickiness.
"We don't want to bleed for our art; we want to make art, and we want to be happy and compensated," said Cutting Ball Theater Community and Education Director Cathryn Cooper.
Cutting Ball Theater and In the Margin's world premiere is set partly in a late-capitalist pizza chain, partly during a shrooms trip in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Awesome Theatre's production proves that Hot Topic is a fertile setting for a gothic romance.
Other highlights at the Orpheum and Golden Gate theatres include "Company" and "The Wiz."
Uniformed park rangers are among the actors at the unique company, and Mother Nature is the set designer.
"Change Your Mind," the first public offering from collective Say Nothing and Leave, gets right what much immersive theater gets wrong.
In Josh Costello's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic, the title character comes off as an antagonist. Of the audience.
Jaime Castañeda's direction at the S.F. theater evinces that DNA-deep understanding of what makes a playwright special and important.
Michael Mayer, Octavio SolÃs, Lloyd Suh and Eric Ting will alight on the flagship Berkeley company next year.
The beloved S.F. drag icon, who was found dead on Monday, April 3, triumphed during the pandemic in Meals on Heels.
Highlights of the Silicon Valley company's 53rd lineup include "How I Learned What I Learned," "Queen" and "Tiger Style!"Â
In leaving room for subtext, Sanaz Toossi's West Coast premiere trusts actors and directors to coauthor a play's meaning, showing understanding of how real people talk.
The Berkeley company has long distinguished itself as the Bay Area's theater of intellectual debate.
