Social Media Use Continues to Rise Across San Francisco Venues
Why are sports writers and political pundits able to stir up active online debate whereas their counterparts in theater cannot?
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Explore San Francisco and Bay Area culture through theater reviews, film, contemporary art, and creative events. Featuring original artwork by Loni Stark, film reviews by Jeanne Powell, and insights by ATCA member Clinton Stark.
Revisiting the Tenderloin
“It’s so real.” she kept repeating, an echo taken up by others, as if being real made the violence preferable to other alternatives.
‘The Producers’ at Hillbarn a winner
Perhaps the greatest compliment one can give this production of the Tony Award-winning musical is that one forgets that it's “community theatre."
Fouladi Projects celebrates diverse heritage
Features works by Omar Chacon (Colombia), Lisa Chou (Taiwain), Ati Maier (Germany) and Jose Sarinana (Mexico).
Clybourne Park Receives 4 Tony Award Nominations (complete list)
Clybourne Park, a new work which played at the American Conservatory Theater last season, received four nominations including best new play.
The Marsh SF explores neurology ward in ‘Vital Signs’
An up-close-and-personal look at life on the neurology ward of a large urban hospital.
San Francisco: Witness a completely improvised murder mystery
You -- that innocent of innocent audience member -- will, of course, have the honor of choosing the murder weapon and the scene of the…
Huffington Post raises journalistic bar, expands into sex education
You are so smart. I love you. / Me to. Hang on one sec, how do you spell phallus...
PBO closes season with a feast
Ever the coquette, she “sigh’d and look’d, sigh’d and looked, sigh'd and looked and sigh'd again.”
Cutting Ball Theater continues celebration of August Strindberg
One of Strindberg’s most peculiar and rarely performed plays, 'The Keys To Heaven' was never performed during the playwright’s lifetime.