Thursday, September 11, 2025
A DROP-DEAD DELIGHT Fall is officially here. Kids are back in school and Halloween is just around the corner. Thus it feels like the perfect time for Berkeley Playhouse to open their new sea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
MORE LIKE 9 TO 9, THIS MUSICAL IS AN OVERSTUFFED BUT FUN DOLLYFEST Ray of Light Theater is known for putting a spin on musicals that are big in popular culture. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2025
EUREKA! Private school children often grow up in a carefully protected bubble. Their privilege shields them from many of life's cruelties, creating a world of like-minded students, parents, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
CANDACE JOHNSON IS AN ADHDIVA! ATTENTION MUST BE PAID (EVEN IF IT WANDERS) Now playing at The Marsh Berkeley is Scat-ter Brain: The Music of ADHD, written and performed by Candace Johnson. T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2025
OPERA'S FUTURE UNVEILED: A DAZZLING GRAND FINALE The San Francisco Opera capped its summer season with the annual Merola Grand Finale, a glittering showcase of the next generation of opera s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
SHANKS FOR THE MEMORIES Currently packing in audiences"and now extended"at The Independent Theater, Luigi: The Musical is a sharp, clever, and gloriously irreverent parody of pop culture and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2025
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT UNDER A WEEPING MAGNOLIA: SHOTGUN'S HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL STUNNER Now playing with an extended run in Berkeley, Shotgun Players' Magnolia Ballet by Terry Best is the best …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2025
I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS GAGGED AND CLAWED SINCE STEAMWORKS ON A SATURDAY NIGHT Summer is the perfect time to flock to theaters for campy escapist joy, and Oasis SF and producer D'Arcy Drollinger…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
It's been 25 years since the debut of the tour de force play known as The Laramie Project. It's based on the 1998 brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old student at the University of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
FROM CUBICLES TO CLARITY: A THEATRICAL GEM IN FOG CITY San Francisco's Word for Word Theatre Company, known for its singular mission of staging short stories word-for-word"narration and all"…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2025
IÂ DON'TÂ FEELÂ YOUR PAIN Corporate life"or working in an office"has a very specific subculture that goes along with it. Sharing confined spaces with others in a 9-to-5 structure can b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:46PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2025
LOVE, LOSS, AND THE PULSE OF PARIS San Francisco Opera's most beloved production is back, and it's as heartbreakingly beautiful as ever. La Bohème, Puccini's timeless tale of love, art, and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
THE SOUND OF FAMILY Berkeley Playhouse has a reputation for doing family-friendly musicals right, and their latest production, The Sound of Music, hits that sweet spot again. With a cast tha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2025
A PRESCRIPTION FOR GREAT THEATER Ray of Light Theatre has once again delivered a production that hits hard and sings even harder. With 25 years of tackling socially relevant musicals"whether…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2025
THE WAITING GAME HAS WRINKLES As Bette Davis's sampler cushion said, "Old age ain't no place for sissies." We start to lose our memories. Our bodies start to ache as our strength and enduran…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2025
SURVIVAL, STRUGGLE AND SMALL JOYS Young girls coming of age always makes for a good story usually filled with life-changing moments and lessons to be learned. In Lynn Nottage's Crumbs from t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:31PM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2025
New Conservatory Theatre is premiering Eric Reyes Loo's family dramedy about life, breakups and soul searching: Simple Mexican Pleasures. The show opens with Eric (Alex Rodriguez) reeling fr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2025
August Wilson's Two Trains Running takes place in 1969 in the working-class Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Now on at American Conservatory Theater, it's part of Wilson's famous "…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2025
HERE THERE ARE HORRORS Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich's Here There Are Blueberries, directed by Kaufman at Berkeley Rep, involves a fascinating true story. We are at the U.S. Holocaust M…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2025
A rare and exhilarating theatrical event is unfolding at American Conservatory Theater's Strand Theater: Suzy Eddie Izzard's one-person performance of Hamlet. This is no ordinary production.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2025
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE…AND FUNNY Now playing at San Francisco Playhouse, Fat Ham is James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony-nominated riff on Hamlet"but this is no brooding royal …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2025
STITCHING TOGETHER BEAUTY AND HORROR: SF BALLET'S ELECTRIFYING FRANKENSTEIN San Francisco Ballet's Frankenstein, a co-production with The Royal Ballet of London, had its world premiere in Lo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2025
ASHES TO ASHES, PIXIE DUST TO PIXIE DUST Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright, and former Bay Area resident Colman Domingo's semi-autobiographical dramedy, Wild With Happy, is having it…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 16, 2025
AUDACIOUS AND FUN MUSICAL TAKES ON REALITY TV Last Wednesday, A.C.T. opened an extremely likeable, engaging and entertaining musical telling one of the tried-and-true stories of the 21st cen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2025
CABS, COKE AND COMING OUT: PEARL ONG'S JOYRIDE THROUGH SF At The Marsh Theater, Pearl Ong"who describes herself as a "former Hong Kong Princess, pot-smoking and coke-snorting lesbian"is perf…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2025
PUSH/PULL PACKS A PUNCH Berkeley's Central Works is known for offering local Bay Area writers workshops and the opportunity for new playwrights to debut their works on stage with an audience…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2025
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR RISES AGAIN. ROCK ON. Rock operas don't come much more iconic than Jesus Christ Superstar, and Berkeley Playhouse's electric new production makes it feel as urgent and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2025
A SUSPENSEFUL ONE-MAN MURDER MYSTERY The Gay community in San Francisco was shocked and terrified by a series of murders between 1974-75 committed by a serial killer known as "The Doodler." …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Currently playing at The New Conservatory Theater, Francis Grey and the Case of His Dead Boyfriend is a whirlwind one-man mystery that fuses elements of classic whodunits, camp, film noir, a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2025
THE THING ABOUT GREAT THEATER Directed by Tyne Rafaeli, Berkeley Rep's world premiere production of The Thing About Jellyfish delivers an emotionally resonant adaptation of Ali Benjamin's be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2025
San Francisco Ballet opened its season last weekend with Manon"the first in its "British Icons" series"a sumptuous and heartbreaking ballet by Sir Kenneth MacMillan. Based on Abbé Prévost'…
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