Arts & Culture :: Theater
'Thirty-Six' at Shotgun Players: Love, sex, art, and tech-themed play is rated experimental
Imagine a matchmaking app for theatergoers. Playwright Nanako Winkler's beguiling "Thirty-Six" would fit, but would you reflexively swipe left if a piece's profile included the word "experimental"?
Going Out, Dec. 5-13, 2024 arts & nightlife events
Some holidays aren't exactly here yet, but Christmas concerts galore have filled our calendar, as well as festive nightlife events like the Santa Skivvies Run and the annual Krampus Pageant. We've got it all wrapped up and ready to go in Going Out.
No tip for 'Waitress' - San Francisco Playhouse can't save musical's script
"Sugar. Butter. Flour." This three-word refrain rings throughout "Waitress," the musical now being served up as holiday fare at the San Francisco Playhouse. It's not sung sweetly, but with an odd atonality.
Festive and fabulous: Bay Area holiday performances
When the holiday performing arts season arrives, the Bay Area shines as a beacon for LGBTQ arts and culture, from fierce drag performances to queer choral ensembles, classical concerts to new adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" and "The Nutcracker."
Pride, no prejudice: Kausar Mohammed co-stars in TheatreWorks' 'Miss Bennet'
Kausar Mohammed is dreaming of a theatrical Christmas. The queer Pakistani actress, who grew up in San Jose, is thrilled to be playing one of the heroines of the Jane Austen canon, Elizabeth Darcy, in "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley."
'The Golden Girls' - popular drag parody moves to the Curran Theatre
2024 is a big year for "The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes." The annual drag parody, which began almost two decades ago, will for the first time perform at the Curran Theatre.
Going Out, Nov. 21-29, 2024 arts & nightlife events
Button up your overcoat because it's getting dark by three, it seems. Take good care of yourself and enjoy some arts and nightlife events, all in Going Out.
'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' - A powerful comedy of community
Laughter and tears, insult and injury; motherhood, sisterhood and the lifeblood of a neighborhood is all in a day's work at Jaja's African Hair Braiding, the eponymous Harlem salon of Jocelyn Bioh's piquant microcosmic comedy, now at Berkeley Repertory.
Holiday jollies at 'La Cage Aux Folles' - Pasadena Playhouse revamps a queer classic
The major new production of "La Cage Aux Folles" that debuted at the Pasadena Playhouse on November 17 would qualify as seasonal theater based on tinsel quantity alone.
'Kimberly Akimbo' - 2023 Tony-winning Best Musical plays the Curran
The brisk, bouncing lyrics of "Anagram," one of the showpiece songs in "Kimberly Akimbo," aptly sum up the insight and appeal of the 2023 Tony award-winning Best Musical by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire, now playing at the Curran Theatre.
James Magruder - Author's 'The Play's the Thing' documents Yale's theater history
James Magruder is the funniest person alive, and he's not even a stand-up comic. You'll get a sense of it when as he discusses his new book "The Play's The Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016)."
Going Out, Nov. 7-15, 2024 arts & nightlife events
A toast to democracy! It was fun while it lasted. Whether you're sober or drinking, find friends to commiserate with and enjoy what we've got in nightlife and arts events that still exist, for now, in Going Out.
'Cabaret' in our time: John Fisher brings the classic musical to Theatre Rhinoceros
John Fisher, the Artistic Director of Theatre Rhinoceros, talked about the company's upcoming production of "Cabaret," which begins a four-weekend run in the Castro on November 21.
Yuval Sharon's 'A New Philosophy of Opera' - New insights on the venerable art form
Ideas tumble out and collide in Yuval Sharon's "A New Philosophy of Opera" (Liveright). The out American director, deemed a maverick by many, steps off stage to deliver his manifesto about keeping putatively imperiled opera alive.