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The three-hour main telecast of the awards ceremony will feature Eddie Redmayne, Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe, among others.
The destruction of Pittsburg Theatre Company's warehouse hasn't stopped the company from opening "The Sunshine Boys" on Friday, June 14.
'Mother Road,' a sequel of sorts to John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath,' imagines a latter-day reverse migration for Joad family descendants.
Playwright Naomi Iizuka constructs exquisite clockworks over and over again in her Magic Theatre and Campo Santo world premiere set on the island of Borneo.
At BroadwaySF, Marianne Elliott's take on George Furth and Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical about singledom versus marriage bursts with ripe, juicy fruits.
Gender-flipped characters and more diverse castings add new richness to Broadway classics.
For all its heft, Stefano Massini's play about the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers is a marvel of poetic restraint.
Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical is relevant whenever nationalism, groupthink and racial othering are on the rise, which seems to be always.Â
"Best Available" centers on a fictional theater's behind-the-scenes hiring process, and the script might make audiences wonder if they're complicit.
Mountain Play, Santa Cruz Shakespeare and Circus Bella invite audiences to enjoy a live performance and eat a picnic, too.
British director Sam Mendes brings Stefano Massini's familial critique of capitalism to American Conservatory Theater.
Season-closing production is a showcase for lead actor Dean Linnard as neurotic drag queen Arnold Beckoff.
"Swept Away," featuring music by folk rock band the Avett Brothers, was among the first big theatrical projects to premiere in the Bay Area after the pandemic's worst days.
The high concept of "A Kind of Knowing" is the modus operandi of the 22-year-old Santa Rosa troupe.
Performances, including by four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza in the title role, only partially redeem the world-premiere musical.
Director Jeffrey Lo reveals Tennessee Williams' 1944 masterpiece as a wide, ripe canvas.
Kassandra Production's "The Soul Catcher" might make you start to rethink the relationships in your own life.
Shana Carroll, of the 7 Fingers and "Dear San Francisco" at Club Fugazi, spoke to the Chronicle about her Tony nod for choreographing "Water for Elephants" on Broadway.
The two Broadway shows each earned a leading 13 Tony nominations and a record number of women nominated for best director, plus one recognizable Bay Area name.Â
In Amelio Garcia's play, inspired by Anne Carson's verse novel, actor Romeo Chandler is a live wire who might spark trifles and slights or wisdom and poetry.
Walking Cinema's "The Fillmore Eclipse" is set in a 1950s jazz joint the night before its bulldozing.
Michael R. Jackson's West Coast premiere at the Toni Rembe Theater in San Francisco summons the gods of lighting, music, set design and costume.
Michael R. Jackson dishes about his Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning show, set to run at ACT in San Francisco.
Witnessing Ghassan Kanafani's 1969 barn burner onstage is like discovering a midcentury classic.
In Torange Yeghizaran's world premiere, three characters fill the playing space to bursting.
