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By Lily Janiak
When you walk into Tenderloin, the new documentary play at the Cutting Ball Theater, you might find yourself disoriented, even doing a double... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
A few years ago, the Thrillpeddlers, San Francisco's theater of the gaudy, gory, and grotesque, embarked on a collaboration that could hardly... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
While he comes closer to pure evil than anyone else in Shakespeare, the villain in Othello is often called within the play itself "honest Iago."... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
The opening moments of A Lie of the Mind, now at the Boxcar, stand among the most intense in all of theater. Jake (a feral Joe Estlack) retches... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
In his pre-show speech, director Brian Katz warns us that his production of A Bright Room Called Day at the Custom Made Theatre Co. runs two... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
You can be forgiven for having great expectations for The Waiting Period, Brian Copeland's new solo show at the Marsh. His last play, 2004's Not... More >>
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By SF Weekly Staff
Arthur in Underland: Performed by Dandelion Dancetheater. Fridays-Sundays, 8 p.m. Through March 18. $13-$24. CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission (at Ninth... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
Sexy topical questions add sheen to the surface of Annie Baker's Body Awareness, a Bay Area premiere now at the Aurora: To what extent is... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
Becky Shaw, a regional premiere now at SF Playhouse, is like a two-hour greatest hits album ... for a soap opera.
Have a favorite cliché... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
It's about time someone staged a play that revealed critics for what they truly are: sexy.
Granted, the critic in Sorry Fugu, the first of two... More >>
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By Nathaniel Eaton
For some of us, the allure of running away with the circus, traveling in gypsy vans, living in backstage tent cities, and clowning around is but... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
If this theatrical season has had any major trend, it's the fairy tale. First, Marin Theatre Company gave us Bellwether, in which a fantastical... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
History has preserved no copy of the script of Ye Bare and Ye Cubb, the first play written and performed in America by English colonists, but... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
Comedy is not what we associate with Tennessee Williams. Sure, there are funny lines in A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
I hate how girls are supposed to be these, like, flavorless non-people, these meek little things, just so we can be some dude's cumbucket and... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
If Race showcases any of playwright David Mamet's virtues, it's prescience.
The play, which premiered in 2009 and is now running at ACT, follows... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
People don't last long in Richard III. Kings can scarcely enjoy a moment's happiness on their thrones before their lives become futile efforts at... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
It can be hard to tell some Bay Area theater companies apart. They produce similar repertoires, they cast the same actors, and they use New York... More >>
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By Lily Janiak
When you board the Alma at the Hyde Street Pier, summoned by the call of a conch shell and wearing your special audience-member sash, it's easy... More >>
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By Emily Hilligoss
Here's a small yet telling detail in the continuing drama of America's response to the Sept. 11 attacks: the premiere of an opera that deals with... More >>
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Joke I Remember Telling as a Kid: Bobcat Goldthwait's Meat Bob album, start to finish.
Joke I Wish I Had Written: Kevin Camia's joke about... More >>
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By Casey Burchby
Scott Thompson & Kevin McDonald: Two Kids, One Hall
Sept. 15-18 at Cobb's, 915 Columbus (at Mason), S.F. 928-4320 or... More >>
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By Kate Conger
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
Crowded Fire Theater
Aug. 24-27 & Sept. 7-17 at BoxcarPlayhouse, 505 Natoma (at Sixth St.), S.F.$15-$35; 255-7846 or... More >>
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By Chris Jensen
According to the Greek war god Ares (John Mercer), "Gods don't make fart jokes." Maybe he should rethink that one. The current state of the world... More >>
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By Chris Jensen
After she catches her fiancé sleeping with a podiatrist, Grace (Rebecca Schweitzer) spends her days cradling a bottle of Jack Daniel's on... More >>
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By Chris Jensen
Shakespeare wrote some weak endings in his time, but none so weak as what you'll find in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Considered by some critics... More >>
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By Chris Jensen
In medieval England, townspeople would gather on festival days to see local guildsmen perform pageants based on stories from the Bible. These... More >>
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By Chris Jensen
28 Barbary Lane just got a little bit gayer. At the beginning of June, American Conservatory Theater premiered a new musical based on Armistead... More >>
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By Nathaniel Eaton
Anna Deavere Smith is a revelation on the Berkeley Rep stage. She's an accomplished actress with lead roles in West Wing and Nurse Jackie, and... More >>
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By Chris Jensen
As told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the story of Daphne can seem a little puzzling to the modern reader. In broad outline, it goes like this:... More >>
