Robert O'Hara's play now at San Francisco Playhouse is nearly impossible to review without making unconscionable revelations.

In this sharply written world premiere at New Conservatory Theatre Center, a character's call is answered before the line goes dead. Whatever optimism that can be rekindled will be hard-earned going forward.

"To thine own self be true." "The lady doth protest too much." "The play's the thing."

He may not have been kicking and screaming, but Harrison David Rivers was definitely dragged to the Million Hoodie March.The event figures into his new play.

Writer, performer, and storyteller Don Reed is a Bay Area treasure, a comic genius who over the years has mined his life story for a series of very entertaining one-man shows.

This will be Mac's first performance of the entire piece since its one-time-only 24-hour marathon production in New York last year.

Big-time Broadway musicals, world premieres set in gay and transgender communities, and that play where a ghost and a prince meet and everyone ends in mincemeat are queuing up for fall bows.

More than 30 years ago, and with no professional theater credits, this team of Broadway unknowns brought in "Something Rotten" with no out-of-town tryouts or regional theater productions, and wound up with a hit.

"D'Arcy is a prolific genius," proclaimed drag artist Matthew Martin as he prepared for his role in "Bitch Slap," D'Arcy Drollinger's mad send-up of 1980s soap operas.