Two actors of color have left the Berkeley Playhouse production after protests over the casting of the Urchins, roles inspired by Black girl groups of the '60s.
In Lark's world-premiere musical, "Coming Soon" at Z Space, Maggie has been faking orgasms for eight years.
In theater, Cleavon Smith says, "stories moved. Every line someone speaks or doesn't speak is a decision."
S.F. native Christopher Chen, the 7 Fingers and Qui Nguyen are highlights in American Conservatory Theater's next season.
"Tina " The Tina Turner Musical" wraps up the season with a biographical musical about the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll.
Tim Bond's direction of August Wilson's play makes for one of the finest Bay Area theater productions in recent memory.
As a love triangle, Adam Ashraf Elsayigh's world premiere works stupendously. As a timeline, it falls flat.
Yilong Liu's world premiere about an intergenerational gay romance veers into scolding, I-told-you-so didacticism.
Typical grant amounts range from $30,000 to $45,000, and a baker's dozen of Bay Area residents are among the winners.
Under Pam MacKinnon's direction, "Fefu" is art that's worthy of a city as dynamic and inventive as San Francisco.
In Yussef El Guindi's world premiere, a decades-long marriage unravels in a single day, a single conversation.
Wilson once chatted with Bond about a new play he had written, a talk that left Bond mesmerized at every word uttered by one of America's greatest playwrights.
The Union Square company's 20th-anniversary season comprises six shows including works by Paula Vogel and David Henry Hwang.
Unlike words, fabric never tells lies in this 2003 play by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage.
The show, which was produced by San Francisco Playhouse as an on-demand video stream, takes on memory loss and identity.
Yilong Liu's queer fantasia about the drug used to prevent HIV infection is in synergy with the theater's own narrative of remembering and mourning.
Still, there are plenty of joys to be had from this Pultizer Prize winner by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, of "In the Heights" fame.
The 2022-23 season is scheduled to open in November with the world premiere of playwright Dustin Chinn's "Colonialism Is Terrible, But Pho Is Delicious."
As we head into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bay Area arts and entertainment organizations once again face a season of uncertainty.
Artistic directors finally make long-delayed directing debuts, and musicians make their musical theater debuts.
American Conservatory Theater's production of MarÃa Irene Fornés' "Fefu and Her Friends" shines a light on a playwright never given her just due.
In Paul Gordon's musical adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," the contrast between the Dashwood sisters takes on new resonance.
"Otto Frank," a solo show starring the Berkeley-born actor, spreads out a cloak of human suffering and depravity from across the centuries and around the globe.
The Tony Award-winning musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald offers nothing less than a vision of what it is to be human.
American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks and Oregon Shakespeare Festival have all paused internship programs.