Wednesday, December 10, 2025
HOOK, LINE & SEQUINER Presidio's Peter Pan Panto soars on camp, color, chaos, Christmas cheer, and unapologetic silliness ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:00PM[SHARE]STILL CASTING ITS SPELL Sondheim and Lapine's fractured fairytales find fresh magic at San Francisco Playhouse Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods may be one of the most belov…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2025
MISERY LOVES COMPANY " BUT WE DIDN'T BUY TICKETS FOR THAT A solo show so full of angst it forgets to entertain. I mean, there's baring your soul… and then there's burying the comedy Since …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
THE RED-HEADED OPTIMIST IS BACK Just in time to nudge everyone into the holiday spirit, The Berkeley Playhouse is presenting Annie through most of December. This classic musical has been par…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2025
BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL INTO THE WHITE HOUSE This play-within-a-play probes power, mythology, and who gets to tell the story Making its West Coast premiere at Marin Theatre Company is Sally…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:56PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
FAITH, FLIGHT, AND THE FIGHT TO ENDURE In our current state of political unrest " with government shutdowns and widespread uncertainty about how to make ends meet " stories about the power o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:45PM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2025
JUST HOW I LIKE MY THEATER " HOT, SWEET, AND SAUCY Now playing at New Conservatory Theatre Center, The Hot Wing King is a spicy tale of love, friendship, and a cooking contest gone gloriousl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
NOW STOCKING LAUGHTER AND FAMILY FUEDS ON AISLE ONE Like a lot of people, I first met the Kim family through Netflix. During the pandemic, I streamed more than a few episodes of the hit sitc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
AN AUTHENTIC, FUNNY ACCOUNT OF SOBRIETY, STUMBLES, AND SURVIVAL Recovery from substance abuse isn't just about putting down the drug of choice and living happily ever after. The "recovery" p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2025
HOPE IN THE GLOW OF DISASTER Five years ago this month, Sept. 9, 2020, was the infamous day when the Bay Area sky literally did turn orange. Smoke from multiple wildfires blocked the sun, ca…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:52PM[SHARE]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 …
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