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"If your desire is to keep creating theater, then keep creating theater," said Exit Theatre Artistic Director Christina Augello.
Geetha Reddy's version of the ancient Indian epic, now in an Oakland Theater Project production, gives the Bay Area a gift.
In 'Corteo,' which performs in San Jose, Oakland and S.F., the clown is like that uncle who still thinks you're 4 when you're 14.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the region's third-largest nonprofit theater, announced it needs the public's help this month. But its plight is hardly unique in the industry.Â
The Lower Bottom Playaz have their first permanent home in BAM House at 1540 Broadway, part of the Black Arts Movement Business District.
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.
The special performance by the San Francisco native marks the latest event in Napa's popular Broadway and Vine series.
"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.
Pippi Lovestocking, a co-founder of drag club Trannyshack with Heklina, is facing a long road of recovery after amputations. But she hasn't lost her trademark humor.
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.
The show will go on with a New York star playing the role of Dorothy.
Traci Tolmaire's heady docu-drama imagines a conversation between James Baldwin, Nina Simone and Lorraine Hansberry.
In Madeleine George's funny and foreboding play, the climate crisis is comically urgent. Â
