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Most families dread the holiday season. The Dahls in Berkeley Repertory's latest drama, written by "Russian Doll" co-creator Leslye Headland, are no different.
Minna Lee's play asks: In a simulation where all your existential crises are gone and everything's hunky-dory, why even bother doing anything?
Magic Theatre's production garnered the Los Angeles playwright his second win of one of the most prestigious awards in Bay Area theater.Â
Any play or musical must compete with all the "para-theater" in rows of audience seats, or at least the possibility that some might happen.
Steven Anthony Jones bids farewell to Bay Area theater with his heroic tribute performance in "How I Learned What I Learned."
At the opening night of Deneen Reynolds-Knott's world premiere about Black college students, the crowd layered on their own soundtrack, to glorious effect.
The ACT regular stars in TheatreWorks' "How I Learned What I Learned," his fourth airing in August Wilson's one-man show since 2019.
"His visions often seem impossible to me," said Michael Torres of new Marin Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Jon Tracy.
The one-woman play by Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes delves into the justice's brilliant legal strategy on sex discrimination.
The novel, about an ambitious mid-30s theater critic, made me reflect on the joy, terror and harsh reality of writing about theater.
Titles at Shotgun Players, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company and Cutting Ball Theater point to a new era in the new year.
From cleverly reimagined classics to entirely original performance art, these companies produced some of the best theater in the Bay Area.
One Christmas ghost will haunt the rafters of American Conservatory Theater's Toni Rembe Theater no more.
Circus Bella's show at the Crossing at East Cut might make you wonder why S.F. doesn't use more performing arts to enliven neighborhoods.
The creepy walk-through show is returning to the San Francisco Mint for a limited run in the new year.Â
The legendary drag queen was also friends with actor Bea Arthur, who originated the role in the 1985-1992 sitcom.
With "Nightlight," about light pollution, the plucky and whimsical Imaginists dance on theater's boundaries.
Though not without its hiccups, indie show "A Nightmare on Elm St Holiday Special" is sure to titillate horror fans and indie theater aficionados.
The theatrical adaptation of the 1990s classic film is set to hit the Orpheum Theatre stage next summer.
In "Galileo," Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza is set to play the astronomer who argued for heliocentrism, even if it meant giving up his freedom.
"The Allure of Thug Life" shows great promise in its kaleidoscopic vision of both Blackness and rap.
The biggest change in this year's incarnation, at the Victoria Theatre, is that Coco Peru is playing the role originated by spoof co-creator Heklina, who died in April.
The Broadway star proved the best place to hear musical theater numbers might be the San Francisco Symphony.
The solo cabaret musical at Marin Theatre Company makes a family's origin story in a Manila nightclub feel as mighty as myth.
Thomas Schumacher, who grew up in San Mateo, is the muscle behind Tony Award-winning musical "The Lion King," making a San Francisco holiday tour stop.
