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Magic Theatre on Verge of Shutting Down

Theater critic Chloe Veltman wrote this week that the recession is taking its toll on the performing arts. As the Weekly was about to go to press, more bad news emerged: San Francisco's famed Magic Theatre may have to cancel its 2009 season if it can't raise $350,000 by Jan. 9. A statement pos ... More >>

Aisle Seat

Theater critic Chloe Veltman wrote this week that the recession is taking its toll on the performing arts. As the Weekly was about to go to press, more bad news emerged: San Francisco's famed Magic Theatre may have to cancel its 2009 season if it can't raise $350,000 by Jan. 9. A statement pos ... More >>

The People’s Cinema

Theater critic Chloe Veltman wrote this week that the recession is taking its toll on the performing arts. As the Weekly was about to go to press, more bad news emerged: San Francisco's famed Magic Theatre may have to cancel its 2009 season if it can't raise $350,000 by Jan. 9. A statement pos ... More >>

Dream of Life

Theater critic Chloe Veltman wrote this week that the recession is taking its toll on the performing arts. As the Weekly was about to go to press, more bad news emerged: San Francisco's famed Magic Theatre may have to cancel its 2009 season if it can't raise $350,000 by Jan. 9. A statement pos ... More >>

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Theater critic Chloe Veltman wrote this week that the recession is taking its toll on the performing arts. As the Weekly was about to go to press, more bad news emerged: San Francisco's famed Magic Theatre may have to cancel its 2009 season if it can't raise $350,000 by Jan. 9. A statement pos ... More >>

Magic Act

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Putting It Out There

A Q & A with a historic theater's new chief.

Buried Child muffled by flawed sound design

A Q & A with a historic theater's new chief.

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God of Hell

Sam Shepard's political play has the same strengths and weaknesses as a punk song

Knockoff

A German New Waver resorts to tired old tricks

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Stealth aims low but hits its mark

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Saddle Up

Sam Shepard and Patti Smith's love affair, immortalized

Fool for Love

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The Lights

A mind-blowing adaptation about three young urbanites lost in the vastness of the city

House of Lucky

Frank Wortham's odyssey

Bleak Desert House

Big-name celebrities don't ruin The Late Henry Moss, but Sam Shepard's tiresome love-death poetry comes close

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Playwrights go to camp

Blues Fallin' Down Like Hail

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