Power, Culture Clash, Sex, Celebrity: ‘Dogeaters’ arrives at Magic Theatre
Drag queens. Beauty Queens. Movie Stars. Statesman. Activists. And rebels.
Welcome to another evening of theater in San Francisco.
Magic Theatre, now in its 49th year and one of our favorite venues around here on Stark Insider, today announced that it will "transform into Manila's mythical Studio 54."
Thanks to the eagerly...
Bone-chilling Fast: ‘The Velocity of Autumn’
Playwright Eric Coble loves his characters, and lavishes them both with one-liners that ring so true they occasionally raised a gasp of recognition from the audience.
‘Eva Trilogy’ World Premiere leads Magic Theatre’s 2017-18 season
Theater news of interest for those in and around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Magic Theatre today took the wraps off its 2017-18 season, and it's looking like another humdinger. See below for full list and details.
The season, which kicks off in the fall features three (!) world premieres and...
Tap and Tomfoolery: Me and My Girl
It’s funny how two people can discover the same thing at once. Calculus. Oxygen. A neglected musical. Me and My Girl, hardly a household name even among connoisseurs of classic musical theater, is getting simultaneous revivals from 42nd Street Moon in San Francisco and Encores! in New York –...
Theater Review: ‘Gatz’ at Berkeley Rep is the most (and best) non-Instagrammable thing you’ll ever see
The Great Gatsby. Word for word. Page by page. An extraordinary piece of experimental theater immerses the audience for 6 hours in F. Scott Fitzgerald's unforgettable classic.
What’s Happening: ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ to open City Lights 40th season in San Jose
City Lights Theater Company this week announced Every Brilliant Thing will open its 40th season on September 15, 2022.
From the San Jose non-profit's announcement:
This British import is about a child who starts a list of everything brilliant in the world, everything worth living for, as his mother struggles with...
BroadwaySF Season: ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ and more coming to San Francisco stage
BroadwaySF has announced its 2023-2024 season with a lineup of six musicals. Full details below.
All will play the Orpheum and Golden Gate Theatre and include the following productions:
The Wiz
MJ
Funny Girl
Company
Mrs. Doubtfire
The Girl from the North Country
"We are thrilled to bring a dynamic season...
Review: ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ hits all the right road kill
Take some trailer trash, a magic-marker sniffing cowboy, toilet brush wielding hootchie mommas and f-bomb dropping, drifting stripper.
Theater Review: ‘Burn This’ premieres at Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto
Director Dale Albright brings us back to ourselves in this well-crafted production about how characters come together after the death of a gay dancer.