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Marin Theatre Company's production feels a bit like the endless Scottish mud and cold that characters keep complaining about.
"Darwin wondered if the smile was shaped by evolution, just like bones and beaks and legs," Isabella Rossellini said ahead of her show in San Francisco.
"Passengers" by "Dear San Francisco" co-creator Shana Carroll makes meaning and rhythm from the everyday shuffle of train travel.
The "transformative" gift, the largest the theater has ever received, will go partly toward building improvements.
America's peculiar, extreme notion of freedom insists on the right to be free from judgment for our thoughts and actions.
The pain of segregating swimming pools ripples through generations in Christina Anderson's world premiere.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" can still help us heal, not least because of its unshakeable faith in children.
The world-premiere adaptation, set in a Black milieu by Oakland native Marcus Gardley, feels like a mighty unlocking.
A play about four teenage girls and a hidden camera shows that representation is more than just seeing faces that look like yours on the screen or stage.
BroadwaySF's touring production of Harper Lee's 1960 novel runs at the Golden Gate Theatre through Oct. 9, offering a fresh take on the beloved story.
BroadwaySF is giving away 5,000 copies of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and 250 play tickets.
Theater demands a high level of emotional labor relative to many other industries.
The brio of the vanguard is as strong as ever at this year's festival, the company's 31st.
The production at BroadwaySF's Orpheum Theatre might be the musicaliest musical that ever musicaled a musical.
Jonathan Spector's world premiere combines deep respect for its audience with infectious enthusiasm for its intellectual preoccupations.
Lavish touring production of the Broadway musical plants an elephant and a red mill out in the Orpheum Theatre audience.
Cal Shakes' production is a modern translation of one of Shakespeares' most brutally heartbreaking tales, set in San Francisco's "Harlem of the West" era.
South Asian immigrants working in the tech industry but consumed by theater putting everything they've got into an epic performance set for Santa Clara.
"Everyone thought it was just going to last forever," said Exit staffer and San Francisco director, writer and producer Stuart Bousel.
The most stunning achievement of the world premiere is that in promising a goddess of music, it delivers.
Debbie Chinn has been appointed by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley to succeed Phil Santora, who stepped down last year.
Berkeley Rep's new Medak Center, which opens this fall, will also have extra rooms to share with other local arts companies.
Stagings from Aurora Theatre Company, SFBATCO and Central Works are among the season's tantalizing offerings.
After more than two years of disruptions in the Bay Area arts world, things are starting to feel like pre-pandemic times.
The stalwart Tenderloin venue with three small theaters and a cafe, home of the San Francisco Fringe Festival, is closing its doors by the end of 2022.
