Wednesday, April 6, 2022
In Yussef El Guindi's world premiere, a decades-long marriage unravels in a single day, a single conversation.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:04PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2022
The Union Square company's 20th-anniversary season comprises six shows including works by Paula Vogel and David Henry Hwang.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 09:00AM[SHARE]Unlike words, fabric never tells lies in this 2003 play by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Yilong Liu's queer fantasia about the drug used to prevent HIV infection is in synergy with the theater's own narrative of remembering and mourning.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2022
Still, there are plenty of joys to be had from this Pultizer Prize winner by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, of "In the Heights" fame.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Artistic directors finally make long-delayed directing debuts, and musicians make their musical theater debuts.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2022
American Conservatory Theater's production of MarÃa Irene Fornés' "Fefu and Her Friends" shines a light on a playwright never given her just due.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2022
In Paul Gordon's musical adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," the contrast between the Dashwood sisters takes on new resonance.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2022
The Tony Award-winning musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald offers nothing less than a vision of what it is to be human.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2022
American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks and Oregon Shakespeare Festival have all paused internship programs.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 6, 2022
Dan Hoyle's show at the Marsh suggests there might not be that much drama, variety or depth within liberal, white, affluent male guilt.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2022
Audiences to this sound-driven show from the Dutch collective Urland might find themselves transported back to childhood.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2022
San Francisco artist Patricia Diart got the idea for "The Cape" after seeing the video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck in 2020.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:57PM[SHARE]National Theatre Productions is "unable to say with confidence when the show can arrive in the Bay Area."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2022
The season concludes with "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," a jukebox musical recounting the icon's hard-won victories.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 26, 2022
The inventive 10-year-old company is ever worthy of attention, even when individual shows don't quite hit the mark.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:39PM[SHARE]Friday, February 25, 2022
Stone-melting, fire-spewing, bone-crunching special effects pack more power in a one-part "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Ushers, house managers and security staff are in the crosshairs of audience members' diametrically opposed preferences.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's play, part of a wave of works by Black writers on Broadway last year, is penetrating in insight.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 6, 2022
Fitz is less a character who's lived a life before the play starts than a concept a playwright might pluck out of the ether.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:16PM[SHARE]Friday, February 4, 2022
Raphael Massie of Oregon Shakespeare Festival succeeds the not-quite-retiring Robert Currier at the San Rafael company.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 3, 2022
"It is strange to have it all swept away " all at once, and slowly," said Allison Page, executive artistic director of sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 1, 2022
"Battles in scarcity economies become incredibly ugly for what seem to outsiders like very small stakes," Tony Kushner said.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 31, 2022
These trans-positive projects transcend a time-honored question: whether it's possible to separate art from a problematic artist.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 30, 2022
The idea for the show sprang in part from co-creator Othello Jefferson's ritual of reading Black poetry to his two daughters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:48PM[SHARE]Friday, January 28, 2022
The Avett Brothers musical asks: When a whaling voyage goes horribly awry, how far would you go to stay alive?
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 27, 2022
Blasphemously talented singers, beatboxers and rappers cook up, on the fly, a miniature hip-hop opera about your day.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 18, 2022
"There can be the stress of whether you match up, whether you're quote-unquote 'as good,'" Nic A. Sommerfeld said.
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