by Rotimi Agbabiaka After the palpable excitement of the spring, when the vaccine rollout promised a full-blown return of live, in-person theatre, the recent escalation of the vaccine-res…
by Nicole Gluckstern This September was meant to be the grand reopening of EXIT Theatre* with a truncated six-day San Francisco Fringe Festival featuring performers who?d been selected vi…
by Edward Guthmann  A 2020 report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition studied the 18 largest non-profit theatres in New York as well as Broadway companies during the…
by Sam Hurwitt Sahar Assaf moved from her native Lebanon to San Francisco at the end of April to take the helm of Golden Thread Productions as its new executive artistic director. She fol…
by Rotimi Agbabiaka Last month, the Bay Area lost one of its most brightly beaming stars. Jeri Lynn Cohen, a supernova of loving warmth and outsize talent passed away on Sunday, July 25, …
by Nicole Gluckstern Who can deny the importance of the arts in education? Learning to create and respond to artistic work gives children and adolescents real-world tools in generative an…
by Lauren Spencer ?It's gonna have a carnival-festival type vibe. We?re gonna have tents and, on that summer vibe, there?ll be games and raffles and then of course, drink, drink, drink, drin…
by Sam Hurwitt When Melissa Hillman and Michael Wayne Rice joined the Theatre Bay Area staff this May, they came aboard an organization very much in flux, serving a theatre community in a…
by Jean Schiffman Last summer, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) was entirely virtual. This year, the 44th annual event?in which a small cohort gathers to develop and wo…
by Sam Hurwitt This year, Pride month falls at a turning point for Bay Area theatre companies, as the state of California lifts the COVID restrictions that have made live in-person theatre…
by Nicole Gluckstern It?s a heady time to be an arts journalist, as my inbox is rapidly filling back up with season announcements and promises of in-person performance. But a series of em…
by Nicole Gluckstern For many, this year?s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month began on a solemn note. With a visible rise in violence against Asian Americans?with close to…
by Jean Schiffman Consider these lyrics to ?We Can Never Go Back to Before,? from the musical Ragtime: ?Life was a road/So certain, and straight and unbending./Our little road/With never …
by Rotimi Agbabiaka The perils of the pandemic have challenged many to develop coping mechanisms for dealing with the stress. Some have taken up bread baking and home gardening while othe…
by Nicole Gluckstern The last live, in-person show I saw in a venue was the opening (and closing) night performance of Lydia R. Diamond?s Toni Stone at ACT, on March 11, 2020. Since that …
by Janine Sun Rogers The Bay Area is home to an extensive community of Asian American theatre makers who create innovative performances that explore identity, race, politics, and diaspori…
by Sam Hurwitt Winner of the Will Glickman Award for best play to premiere in the Bay Area in 2020, Don?t Eat the Mangos by Ricardo P?rez Gonz?lez made its debut at San Francisco?s Magic …
by Lisa Drostova After a year of endless loss, announcing the end of an arts organization could be just one more sadness. But Ragged Wing Ensemble?s decision to fold up its tent for the l…
by Nicole Gluckstern In the wake of the pandemic shutdown of Spring 2020, theatre companies around the Bay Area (and the world) were forced to close their doors and much of their season. …
by Janine Sun Rogers After a year of quarantine, contact is a hot commodity. While theatres across the globe have cancelled shows and pivoted to digital platforms, interactive performance cr…
by Nicole Gluckstern For performing arts workers who are accustomed to piecing together a living from freelance, contract, and part-time work, the pandemic shutdown of 2020 cut them off, …
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by Rotimi Agbabiaka ? ? On March 11, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act, a $1.9 trillion COVID-relief package that, in addition to direct payments, unemployme…
by Sam Hurwitt Lisa Steindler has been at Z Space since 2005 and at its helm as executive artistic director since 2007. But this April, she?s stepping down and the company is shifting to a …