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"A Strange Loop" will close out the American Conservatory Theater's 2023-24 season.Â
The touring Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's sparkly fairytale musical works like magic.
The month-long residency at North Beach's Club Fugazi will be the first time the S.F. drag legend has performed her signature show since 2020.
From floating castles, simplified costumes and a special cow puppet, here's how the production coming to the Curran is reinventing a classic.
At Nicki Jizz's monthly all-Black drag show at Oasis, if you don't tip, you're racist.
Tony Awards history was made when Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee became the first nonbinary people to win Tonys for acting.Â
Broadway flexed its muscle in the face of Hollywood writers' strike and fully embraced trans-rights with history-making winners.
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.
From Burning Man to South of Market nightlife, the American Conservatory Theater production pays homage to Bay Area culture and queer history.
Director Sam Pinkleton's cast list reveals Bay Area actors anew, but for potential they've always had.Â
The drag charity group's community award was rescinded by the L.A. team. But who have the glam nuns actually offended?
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.
Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus' production dispels the old boys' club with multiracial female, nonbinary and trans performers.Â
TodayTix and Theatre Bay Area's promotion offers discounts to Ray of Light, BroadwaySF and many more.
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."
