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Jocelyn Bioh's West Coast premiere following Nigerian film in the 1990s is about romantic melodrama " both onscreen and off the set.
The West Coast premiere of Heidi Armbruster's play digs into the mystery author's real-life 11-day disappearance that was never explained.
In Jocelyn Bioh's comedy centering the world of Nigerian movies, the Ghanaian American playwright aims to tell a joyful African story.
All four slots in the San Francisco theater's 2024 lineup are world premieres. "It's the only way to do it," lead director Sean San José told the Chronicle.
The sixth haunted attraction by Into the Dark, which comprises Peaches Christ, David Flower Productions and Non Plus Ultra, has just the gory frights and cultish imagery to make your stomach…
A new show from Brenda Wong Aoki, dubbed "America's first Asian American storyteller," sees stories as a saving grace in an increasingly disconnected world.
New Executive Director Clive Worsley said he's faced strong opposition to his vision, but assures audiences, "We're not taking the Shakespeare away."
Berkeley Rep's production of Selina Fillinger's play slyly posits farce as the path toward feminist revolution.
Gov. Gavin Newsom reallocated $11.5 million to the Equitable Payroll Fund to help small arts nonprofits recover from the pandemic and comply with AB5.
Dreams on the Rocks Productions' Eclectic Box is slated to be a home for companies affected by PianoFight's closure.
Taylor Mac's sequel to Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" creates a canvas for artists to lead our revolts.
Crowded Fire Theater's West Coast premiere of "Edit Annie" already reflects its new leadership makeup.
Hansol Jung's play about a Korean adoptee galvanizes powers of make-believe.
The plot of Ray of Light Theatre's production is sometimes mere scaffolding on which to hang songs, and that's OK.
The Marsh Berkeley's production about Black career railroad men lacks the particular alchemy of solo shows but triumphs with careful pacing, vivid characters.
In Liz Duffy Adams' firecracker of a two-hander about William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, actor Dean Linnard has a show that gives full expression to his artistic prowess.
Lisa Peterson's adaptation trounces the notion that Homer's poem is irrelevant or that its interpretative possibilities have been exhausted.
Highlights this season include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, CounterPulse and We Players.
Santa Cruz Shakespeare hit 114% of its box-office goal for the year before its summer season even finished.
American Conservatory Theater's world premiere musical about the legendary TV series asks, "How do our stories live in our bodies?"
San Francisco performer Michael Phillis simultaneously spoofs human resources and serves as the field's underdog champion.
Paul Whitworth in the tragedy's title role gives line readings that leave flesh wounds.
TheatreFirst in Berkeley joins a rapidly growing list of shuttered Bay Area theaters.
 Eye Zen Presents' new theater experience dedicated to the S.F. disco queen is fabulous in spite of obstacles.
Bridgette Loriaux's direction of Shakespeare's love tangle is part whipped hormone frenzy, part unsettling meditation.
