Totally Mod: ‘Being Earnest’ at TheatreWorks

Think Twiggy, Yves St. Laurent’s Mondrian collection, Mary Quant, and Marianne Faithful in a fur rug, and you’ll be on the set of 'Being Earnest'.

Enter ‘Chad Deity’ at San Jose Stage Company

If you think you’re too good for wrestling, come to this show. If you think you know something about race and complicity, come to this show. If you feel disconnected from theatre, you should especially come to this show.

Review: Not a Genuine Black Man at Berkeley Rep

Copeland's performance suggests that most of us are more genuinely confused than genuinely racist, and that self-hatred can be insidiously contagious.

Die Mommie Die!

Joan Crawford: your play is ready. Divas unite.

Dreaming Irish at Broadway San Jose: ‘Once’ (Review)

This is a spinet on stage, not a baby grand, and what de Waal does with it can make you rethink the possibilities of music.
This Is My Brain On Drugs

Hanging at the Fringe: Not just white punks…

From the Fringe Festival in San Francisco.
Satchmo at The Waldorf

What a Wonderful World! ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf’ (Review)

Looking at the cultural cradle that these greats rock out of, we reconstitute ourselves again, not as polarized ions, clinging to one positive or negative charge, but as whole people.
SF Opera David Gockley 2016

A smashing send-off for David Gockley

After ten years as the general director of San Francisco Opera, David Gockley is retiring. To chronicle his contributions to American opera would take a book, not a blog post (and in fact there is one). But the Celebrating David! gala concert on Thursday night focused on two of...
Theater Review: Needles and Opium at A.C.T. San Francisco

Lepage makes high-tech magic at the ACT

The production’s deft use of technology gives 'Needles and Opium' a major “wow” factor.
Tuck & Patti - San Francisco Jazz Festival Review

36th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival in Full Swing: Tuck & Patti (Review)

The repertoire of Tuck and Patti deftly illustrates the purpose of this venue — bring people together across the Americas to celebrate music, love and life.