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"Harry Clarke," David Cale's one-man play, is about the intoxicating fantasy of becoming someone else.Â
Theatre Rhinoceros is producing gay theater in the Castro for the first time in its 46-year history.
At Aurora Theatre, Michael Gene Sullivan's harrowing stage adaption of George Orwell's novel prickles the skin, pinches nerves and lodges in the viscera.
Indie offerings from Bow & Arrow Circus Theatre Collective, Misfit Cabaret, the Imaginists and more sparkle and chime this holiday season.
Plays by Tony Kushner, Martyna Majok and Michael Wayne Turner III continue the 12-year-old company's proud tradition of staggering ambition.
The Tony and Emmy award-winning actor portrays 19 different characters in Berkeley Repertory Theatre's "Harry Clarke."
Actress Pangaea Colter anchors a stellar cast and crew ready to prove the cult classic musical is still as timely as ever.
"Forgetting Tree" circles audience in a wondrously unusual, difficult-to-grasp world.Â
Playwright and Berkeley native Eisa Davis devises an idiom so resplendent, so discerning, it induces chills and shudders.
The Grammy-winning Broadway performer provided an invigorating opening night to the 13th season of Bay Area Cabaret at the Venetian Room.
Alex Edelman's "Just for Us" at the Curran is a triumph of contemporary Jewish humor.
Church of Clown in Visitacion Valley crowns a local clowning scene that has long rendered the profession's stereotypes irrelevant.
An abrupt change in the council's funding process and its non-communication to applicants led to confusion and dismay.
Greg Sarris' story, set among Santa Rosa day laborers and staged at Z Below, testifies to the power of keen observation.
Cutting Ball Theater's remarkable production of "Rossum's Universal Robots" reads as a cri de coeur in the age of Alexa, Siri and Waymo.
Eisa Davis' Pulitzer Prize finalist "Bulrusher" will be performed as both a play and an opera.
"Tiny Fires," a world premiere by Aimee Suzara, will be Custom Made Theatre Company's last show for the foreseeable future.
The original "Rent" cast member shares how grief and perseverance shaped his life and career in solo show at San Francisco's Curran Theater.
Heidi Armbruster's delightful new play "Mrs. Christie," running thru Oct 29th, the true-life, never-solved mystery of British novelist Agatha Christie's 11-day disappearance in 1926, is well…
"Our audience is not going to be a monolith," Lance Gardner told the Chronicle of his plans for the Mill Valley company.
Crowded Fire Theater's revealing West Coast premiere about the complexities of a parasocial relationship delivers Bay Area theater's biggest surprise of the fall.
The San Francisco comedian's 14th solo show is inspired by her time as a cruise ship entertainer.
Heidi Armbruster's champagne flute of a play, now in a TheatreWorks Silicon Valley West Coast premiere, is about Agatha Christie's 1926 disappearance.
In Annie Danger's piece at CounterPulse, part of the Tenderloin company's namesake festival, audience members compete for real cash prizes.
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