Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Shana Carroll, of the 7 Fingers and "Dear San Francisco" at Club Fugazi, spoke to the Chronicle about her Tony nod for choreographing "Water for Elephants" on Broadway.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:32PM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2024
In Amelio Garcia's play, inspired by Anne Carson's verse novel, actor Romeo Chandler is a live wire who might spark trifles and slights or wisdom and poetry.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2024
Walking Cinema's "The Fillmore Eclipse" is set in a 1950s jazz joint the night before its bulldozing.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2024
Michael R. Jackson's West Coast premiere at the Toni Rembe Theater in San Francisco summons the gods of lighting, music, set design and costume.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Mike Lew's comedy at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is balm for any thwarted adult who's ever fantasized, "I'm gonna yell at my mom like a white girl."Â
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
San Jose Stage Company's West Coast premiere about an English hangman forced into early retirement trades moralizing for high style.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2024
The S.F. native's solo show at American Conservatory Theater tells the true story of how a strawberry red Hello Kitty sewing machine started a mutual aid society.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:01PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2024
Two world premieres and the return of rotating rep are among the goodies in the 59-year-old San Francisco company's lineup.Â
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2024
Martyna Majok's Pulitzer Prize-winning play writes characters with disabilities who aren't defined by their physical limitations.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:26PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2024
Though some moments shine, San Francisco Playhouse's production is mostly a joyless sprawl of unmade choices.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2024
Lloyd Suh's Pulitzer Prize finalist insists on the dignity of those who came to San Francisco during the Chinese Exclusion Act.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2024
This season's highlights include Klanghaus, African-American Shakespeare Company and Killing My Lobster, among many others.Â
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2024
Ashley Smiley's Magic Theatre world premiere is SOS alert and valentine, high-tech heist and keenly observed family portrait.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 2, 2024
Elevator Repair Service's "Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge" at Cal Performances permits no self-congratulation about racial progress.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 24, 2024
"Our goal this evening is to make you queer," or queerer still, Taylor Mac said near the top of the sweeping, 55-song show at Cal Performances.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2024
Kate Attwell's frame-splitting, acute yet expansive script is about how complicit we are in tech's takeover of both our interactions and consciousnesses.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Marin Theatre Company's actors have a muffled quality, as if they're hoping to believe, rather than actually believing, what they're saying.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 14, 2024
ACT's "Big Data" by Kate Attwell says that when we give up our digital privacy, our homes, family, love and sex lives feel the cost.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
"Kimberly Akimbo" and "& Juliet" are among the highlights of next year's offerings from the owner of the Orpheum, Golden Gate and Curran theaters.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2024
Minna Lee's play asks: In a simulation where all your existential crises are gone and everything's hunky-dory, why even bother doing anything?
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Any play or musical must compete with all the "para-theater" in rows of audience seats, or at least the possibility that some might happen.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 21, 2024
At the opening night of Deneen Reynolds-Knott's world premiere about Black college students, the crowd layered on their own soundtrack, to glorious effect.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:16PM[SHARE]Friday, January 12, 2024
The ACT regular stars in TheatreWorks' "How I Learned What I Learned," his fourth airing in August Wilson's one-man show since 2019.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 9, 2024
"His visions often seem impossible to me," said Michael Torres of new Marin Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Jon Tracy.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2024
The one-woman play by Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes delves into the justice's brilliant legal strategy on sex discrimination.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 03:54PM[SHARE]Friday, December 29, 2023
The novel, about an ambitious mid-30s theater critic, made me reflect on the joy, terror and harsh reality of writing about theater.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Titles at Shotgun Players, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company and Cutting Ball Theater point to a new era in the new year.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 20, 2023
From cleverly reimagined classics to entirely original performance art, these companies produced some of the best theater in the Bay Area.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
