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Since 1968, Peter Brook's "The Empty Space" has been sending generations of theater makers for their pencil sharpeners.
Bay Area experts in fashion, dance and history weigh in to help you make the most out of the "Queen's Ball" immersive experience from Netflix.
Practically overnight, immersive theater in the Bay Area has a major new player. Lily Janiak speaks with local power players of the medium about the trend.
Returning to summer parks for the first time since the pandemic hit, the Mime Troupe delivers as if only intention matters.
Jaclyn Backhaus' play, now in a West Coast premiere at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company, can be overly didactic at times, but a passionate yearning drives it.
More than two years into the pandemic, Cutting Ball is sadly delaying its planned return to an IRL stage.
The show about Broadway stars and a small-town lesbian serves as a fun kick-off to San Francisco's Pride Weekend.
The "Pose" star wants to offer an escape from the news cycle with her new cabaret show coming to Feinstein's at the Nikko on Thursday-Saturday, June 23-25.
As Ariel Craft departs Cutting Ball, Bay Area theater professionals who recently gave birth reflect on family-work balance.
"It is a bit of trip going from community college student to executive," union actor Sean Fenton joked.
Berkeley Rep, Teatro Visión, TheatreWorks and Cutting Ball Theater all have auspicious summer offerings.
The studio's new play, "Inay Dalisay's World Famous Lechon," follows a succession of get-togethers that feel cathartic in the wake of so much pandemic trauma.
"A Strange Loop" has topped the 2022 Tony Awards by winning best musical.
"A Strange Loop," a sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness won best new musical, as voters celebrated Broadway's most racially diverse season.
Immersive theater is an art. Dear Netflix, please let local theater artists help you make this better.
Lucas Hnath's play about his mother's real-life kidnapping haunts as only nonfiction can.
Anaïs Mitchell's score can chug like a freight train or clang and gasp like the pistons and gaskets of Hades' foundry in this production at the Orpheum Theatre.
"The Mojo and the Sayso" is sharp about the ways that family can live right on top of each other without ever intersecting.
Orpheus "almost can't live in the reality of the world around him, and for that reason he lets down Eurydice," Anaïs Mitchell said.
Karen ZacarÃas' bilingual adaptation invites non-Spanish-speaking audiences to whet our powers of comprehension.
Sexy clowns, staple guns, beds of nails and comet tails of sparks are some of the acts in the Ruckus and Rumpus Revival, formerly Tourettes Without Regrets.
Les Waters directs the true story told in the voice of playwright Lucas Hnath's mother, who survived a prolonged, violent crime in 1997.
The arts presenter's 2022-23 season includes a range of timely new and commissioned works tackling timely subjects like climate change and social justice.
In Marin Theatre Company's new production, a mutual appreciation for the author's inner life makes possible an unlikely friendship, and an intriguing mystery.
"For a long time, acting had always been a way for me to be something other than myself," said alum Liz Sklar.
