As director Susannah Martin points out in the program for Shotgun Players' production of Our Town, many theatergoers dismiss Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938…
During the holiday season, we can pretty much expect the same things: cute little Christmas tree markets, folks feeling all the feels over peppermint…
The truest moment in The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) isn't when the three performers kick one another in the balls (or, as they…
It'd be hard to imagine a mode of theater more seemingly apt for our newsfeed-dominated age than the San Francisco One-Minute Play Festival, a…
Cirque Du Soleil prides itself on being “nouveau cirque,” or a contemporary circus. Forgoing the idea of a freakshow with bearded ladies and carnival…
In Bigger Than a Breadbox Theatre Co.'s production of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding, written in 1932, director Ariel Craft establishes one of the…
The primary reason the Earth is fucked is largely due to people who think of themselves as one, instead of one of many. Or…
Upon first encountering Penny, the funniest of many funny characters in Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's The Totalitarians, you might be tempted to write off the…
It's grim, difficult to watch, and doesn't entirely coalesce until Act Two, but everyone should see Party People. It's not perfect theater, but it's…
The Barbary Coast Revue celebrates one of San Francisco's most notorious epochs, a time when bars were on boats, men outnumbered women 30 to…
