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Cirque du Soleil returns to Oracle Park with "Echo," featuring a unique cube set and running Nov. 20 to Dec. 21.
Lance Gardner, Marin Theatre's artistic director, rediscovers his passion for acting in new collaboration with Carey Perloff.Â
Ali Benjamin tells the Chronicle about writing her bestselling novel about a griefstruck girl, and what's exciting about its theater adaptation.Â
'Exotic Deadly' at San Francisco Playhouse was inspired partly by playwright Keiko Green's experience as the granddaughter of a MSG food scientist.
You start to wish Daphne's story could take life as its own new musical instead of being shoehorned into preexisting intellectual property.
Monét X Change shares her process of building her show, the comeback of classical art songs and why she thinks her teen years would be the next great sitcom.
The Tony Award-winning musical expands Billy Wilder's 1959 drag film to include a nonbinary character.Â
Shotgun Players, SFBATCO, Berkeley Rep and others offer shows to organize your calendar around.
Despite its indulgences, Marcus Gardley's world premiere stands as an example of how Oakland Theater Project is the most ambitious little theater company in the region.
Oakland Theater Project, Theatre Lunatico and American Conservatory Theater made Bay Area theater sparkle this year.
Director Pam MacKinnon and playwright Craig Lucas don't establish enough ground rules for their story to cohere into something more than a string of random events.
'Peter Pan' aspires to, and often achieves, smooth-mind, sparkly escape from worldly cares.
TheatreWorks' production of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's "Pride and Prejudice" sequel combines holiday confection, spicy debate and sumptuous visuals.
For all of Susi Damilano's compassionate, imaginative direction, this production of Jessie Nelson and Sara Bareilles' 2015 musical suffers from a near-fatal flaw.
Leah Nanako Winkler's world premiere, inspired by a New York Times article, capitalizes on how theater is, at its core, bodies in the same space as you.
When Lucas Hinds Babcock performs at BroadwaySF's Orpheum Theatre, he'll be returning to the venue where he saw tours as a boy.
In Word for Word's "The Strange Library," self-rearranging walls submerge you in a dreamlike state.
The cast members of Actors' Reading Collective's "The Antipodes" don't just chow down on rich material; they're connoisseurs.
In a country that just elected a xenophobe president, Jocelyn Bioh's West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep is a necessary corrective.
American Conservatory Theater's world premiere of "AÂ Whynot Christmas Carol" demands introspection alongside its magic and laughs.
Oakland Theater Project's "Ghost Quartet" is so gossamery, so there-yet-not-there, that you might feel as if you merely got haunted by a narrative's shadow.
The Tony Award-winning musical at BroadwaySF's Curran Theatre takes a different path from other shows about high schoolers.
Bay Area actors who trod the boards at the Bruns Amphitheater share their memories of the quirky outdoor venue as Cal Shakes' closure looms.Â
Noël Coward's famed repartee " "I love you when you're offended" " occasionally lubricates the proceedings.
The legacy theater, under the leadership of Sean San José, continues to buck trends by producing exclusively world premieres next year.
