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Has A.I. made the future for full-time human theater critics - about a dozen of us in the U.S. - bleaker still?
Theatre of the Poor presents play about the Bay Area's homeless crisis, created by and starring the local unhoused residents of San Francisco.
Why stop at 'Spiderman?' The congressman's song-and-dance resume could use some polishing
Playwright Cardid Svich trusts that her audiences can function in the world of metaphor and allusion.
"I decided I want to make the most Chris Chen play I could possibly make," Christopher Chen said of ACT's "The Headlands."
ACT alum and Broadway standout is set to perform his "Along the Way" solo show Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Strand Theater.
Santa Clara native Carla Pantoja has worked with the 40-year-old company for two decades as teacher, director and actor.
"Everest: An Immersive Experience" might be best thought of as immersive animated opera film rather than immersive opera.
Claude Jackson Jr.'s world premiere is life-affirming without being sentimental, somehow hopeful without being unrealistic.
Theater audiences will have an opportunity to experience stories candid and comic with small-cast plays written, directed by and featuring Indigenous people.
To playwright Dominique Morisseau's ace dialogue, director Dawn Monique Williams brings both micro and macro sensitivity.
Musical theater's tools only deaden the show, an adaptation of the 2004 movie written by Tina Fey.
Co-founder Michael Socrates Moran is making his playwriting debut with the company, with "Exodus to Eden."
In Lynn Nottage's comedy, a sandwich shop is a kind of purgatory, a prison after workers get out of prison.
"Dancing in Their Light" follows the Chinn family from war in China to a family business in New York.
Since opening in 2014, the Tenderloin space has been more than just a venue. As a gathering place, it was a destination.
Elon Musk's Twitter feed is absurdist theater, so we hired a local actor to perform it as a monologue.
TheatreWorks' West Coast premiere churns out confrontations and revelations as if they're on a runaway conveyor belt.
Oakland's Jonathan Spector is only the second playwright to win the Will Glickman Award twice in its 39-year history.
The Pulitzer-winning playwright brings her new play "Clyde's" to Berkeley Rep.
The contrast between fancy digs and scrappy art epitomizes what 447 Minna, which is owned by CAST, is all about.
"Ennio," which uses costumes made out of paper, doesn't even succeed at being fun.
With cardboard, tape and string, Italian performer Ennio Marchetto transforms into celebrities " and brings Chronicle columnist Tony Bravo with him.
In wet times at underground Bay Area performance spaces, the outside world doesn't always stay outside.
Marin Shakespeare Company might exemplify a broader shift in attitude about theater leader jobs.
