Unwrapping ‘The Realistic Joneses’
The underlying tension plays against the duration of the play even more than it plays between characters. We wait for coherency like we wait for Godot.
Common at the Masonic: A Fundraiser for Black Girls Code (Review)
Kimberly Bryant, who founded Black Girls Code (BGC) in 2011, has a vision – to increase the number of women of color in the digital world by empowering girls of color to become innovators in STEM fields through exposure to computer science and technology.
To that end the nonprofit...
A new Irish epic at Magic Theatre
Multi-part epics are always intimidating. They’re a big commitment to make in advance, and there’s a sense of failure if you don’t see them through. No one wants to be the quitter who only saw Voyage (in Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia) or Das Rheingold (in Wagner’s Ring cycle)....
‘Hamilton’ Review: Founding of country was much more difficult than you were taught
Stark Insider Broadway Review by Jeanne Powell: Hamilton at the SHN Orpheum Theatre San Francisco.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s remarkable Broadway stage musical Hamilton celebrating America’s founding fathers, but especially Alexander Hamilton, is back in San Francisco on its third national tour.
The long-running popularity of this ground-breaking history lesson, composed in hip-hop...
What’s Happening: ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ launches American tour at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater
Improvisational show Freestyle Love Supreme has arrived.
Organizers at A.C.T. say the Broadway hit is now playing at the Geary Theater in San Francisco through February 13.
The show, from longtime friends Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Bay Area artist Anthony Veneziale, "pays homage to John Coltrane's improvisational musical style as...
What’s Happening: ‘Edit Annie’ leads Crowded Fire Theater’s 2023 season
Mary Glen Fredrick's Edit Annie will kick off Crowded Fire Theater's 2023 season.
The San Francisco playhouse announced that is will stage 7 new plays through its "Matchbox Reading Series" and an in-person production scheduled for the summer of 2023. Full details below.
"Matchbox is one of Crowded Fire’s cornerstones of...
On Stage: ‘Torch Song’ at Marin Theatre Company
Marin Theatre Company has announced it will close out its 2023/24 season with Torch Song.
The comic drama by Harvey Ferstein will be directed by Evren Odcikin and runs May 9 through June 2, 2024.
Per the announcement about the play:
Torch Song focuses on Arnold Beckoff, a lovelorn Jewish drag queen...
Theater review: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at Coastal Repertory Theatre
How would you remember your past?
In 'The Glass Menagerie', Tennessee Williams' first successful play as a playwright, we are drawn into the very personal memories of Tom Wingfield (Peter K. Owen) as he recalls his earlier life living with his loving, but often overbearing, mother and his shy, crippled...
Theater review: Puppets gone wild at ‘Avenue Q’ at Broadway San Jose
Puppets sure have changed since I was a kid—in a good way, a very good way. Don't look for them on PBS though. You're more likely to find this raucous lot on HBO. Last night, the tony award-winning musical Avenue Q rolled into town with a bunch of starry-eyed,...
Theater Review: ‘Dirty Blonde’ Mae West at The Stage
Famous for her uninhibited sexuality and provocative double entendres, Mae West was way ahead of her time. Somewhat of a cross between Madonna and Pam Anderson, we're never quite sure who the real Mae West is - we do know gentlemen quiver, get weak at the knees in her well endowed...
