Friday, February 24, 2023
Director Catherine Castellanos signals that here, in a crumbling monastery in the Central Valley village of Grangeville, the outside world is a distant land.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2023
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss' musical about the six wives of Henry VIII knows what it wants and knows how to get it.Â
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Gusting winds twice stalled opening night of a new musical, by Lauren M. Gunderson, Bree Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan, about female Supreme Court trailblazers.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2023
In American Conservatory Theater's West Coast premiere, S.F. native Christopher Chen sprinkles in clues and red herrings with the expert timing of a symphony conductor.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Other highlights coming to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts include "Ain't Too Proud" and "Mean Girls."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:00PM[SHARE]Has A.I. made the future for full-time human theater critics - about a dozen of us in the U.S. - bleaker still?
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Playwright Cardid Svich trusts that her audiences can function in the world of metaphor and allusion.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2023
"I decided I want to make the most Chris Chen play I could possibly make," Christopher Chen said of ACT's "The Headlands."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2023
Santa Clara native Carla Pantoja has worked with the 40-year-old company for two decades as teacher, director and actor.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2023
"Everest: An Immersive Experience" might be best thought of as immersive animated opera film rather than immersive opera.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2023
Claude Jackson Jr.'s world premiere is life-affirming without being sentimental, somehow hopeful without being unrealistic.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:23PM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2023
To playwright Dominique Morisseau's ace dialogue, director Dawn Monique Williams brings both micro and macro sensitivity.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2023
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Co-founder Michael Socrates Moran is making his playwriting debut with the company, with "Exodus to Eden."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2023
In Lynn Nottage's comedy, a sandwich shop is a kind of purgatory, a prison after workers get out of prison.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Since opening in 2014, the Tenderloin space has been more than just a venue. As a gathering place, it was a destination.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2023
Elon Musk's Twitter feed is absurdist theater, so we hired a local actor to perform it as a monologue.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2023
TheatreWorks' West Coast premiere churns out confrontations and revelations as if they're on a runaway conveyor belt.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 14, 2023
The contrast between fancy digs and scrappy art epitomizes what 447 Minna, which is owned by CAST, is all about.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2023
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
In wet times at underground Bay Area performance spaces, the outside world doesn't always stay outside.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 08:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2022
"When I say no, I'm also saying yes to what is truly meant for me. I'm saying yes to who I am as a maker," Sarita Ocón said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Oakland Theater Project, Shotgun Players and American Conservatory Theater are among the must-see theaters in 2023.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2022
"It's not sustainable," said Rob Ready of PianoFight, where attendance and bar sales are down 65% compared to 2019.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Despite mammoth griefs, local theater made thrilling art this year, a testament to our artists' mettle, inventiveness and flair.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 17, 2022
Center Repertory Company made a cast- and crew-wide effort to ensure that Wendy Wisely could go onstage one last time.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2022
The musical commits the cardinal sin of misreading and thus omitting what makes its source material great.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2022
Irene (Anne Yumi Kobori) hears from a ghost words all bohemian youths dread hearing from their ancestors: "Go. Get. A. Job."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2022
Amid all the organ harvesting and groin juice licking, Dimitris Papaioannou also creates moments of levity.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Presidio Theatre's "Sleeping Beauty" looks to make participatory theater fun for an American audience.
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