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Queer crime stories: Two solo shows debut next week at Rhino & NCTC
Next week, San Francisco's two leading queer stage companies, the New Conservatory Theatre Center and Theatre Rhinoceros will each open a solo show with a murder at its center. In one, crime is very much a laughing matter. In the other, it's dead serious.
'Exotic Deadly: Or The MSG Play' - Keiko and Jesca's excellent adventure at SF Playhouse
Writer Keiko Green and director Jesca Prudencia cheerfully cite "Wayne's World" and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" as major aesthetic influences on "Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play," which opens on Jan. 30 at the San Francisco Playhouse.
Queer comedy picks: Highlights of SF Sketchfest 2025
SF Sketchfest returns this weekend for a 22nd citywide celebration of mirth. Here are a few of the queer performers and queer-focused programs worth checking out; Joel Kim Booster, Straightio Lab, Trans-It Girls and more.
The High Princx Pageant: Distinctive drag at Oasis
The fourth annual High Princx pageant, a polymorphous drag extravaganza so grand it takes two nights, will take over Oasis on January 18 and 25. In a bit of allegorical fabulousness.
'Some Like It Hot' at the Orpheum - Tavis Kordell stars as a newfangled ingénue
In this era of calculated personal branding and TikTok careerism, it's delightful to meet an honest-to-goodness ingénue. Tavis Kordell is now playing the nonbinary lead role of Jerry/Daphne in the first national tour of "Some Like It Hot."
Holiday triple plays - New versions of old favorites
Sometimes revisiting a time-honored tradition lends the perfect twinkle to holiday season theater productions; sometimes not. 'Peter Pan: Panto in the Presidio,' 'The Kinsey Sicks: Deep Inside Tonight,' and 'A Whynot Christmas Carol,' are reviewed.
High spirits, wild rides & queer curiousities: Last-minute gifts for the holiday season
Belly up to the bar for a round of potable last-minute gifts, and some choice boozeless booty as well. We've checked our list twice with online purveyors to make sure anything you order by Dec. 15 will arrive in time for Christmas.
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.
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."
'Broadway Barbara's Holiday Spectacular' at Feinstein's
Barbara Dixon, aka Broadway Barbara (aka actress Leah Sprecher) is a has-been/never-been of the Great White Way. She's bringing her "Holiday Spectacular" cabaret show, chock full of Broadway dirty laundry, to Feinstein's at the Nikko on Dec. 5.
'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.
Sam Harris gets happy: 'Over the Rainbow' singer overcomes setbacks
Singer Sam Harris has been a favorite of queer audiences for decades. He'll will perform his first Bay Area concert in more than five years at the Orinda Theatre on Nov. 17.
'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.
'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.
Chad Beguelin's 'Showmance' - Broadway lyricist publishes a gay romance novel
A Broadway lyricist and book writer whose collaborations include "The Wedding Singer," "Elf: The Musical," and Disney's "Aladdin," Beguelin writes what he knows in his literary debut, "Showmance," a romantic comedy about a gay Broadway theater artist.
Swishcraft: Musical comedian Tim Murray brings hex appeal to Feinstein's
"Witches!," the seasonal and spicy cabaret act Tim Murray has been touring the country with each October since 2022, is a very queer, unabashedly autobiographical romp.
'Choir Boy' sings out strong: Shotgun Players presents drama by 'Moonlight' screenwriter
Saturated in hormones and harmonies, Shotgun Players' production of "Choir Boy," is a bracing entertainment, as endearing, self-serious, and gloriously florid as the blossoming minds of the teenage boarding school boys it portrays.
A Rocky road through October - 'Rocky Horror' haunts Oasis, the Curran, and Feinstein's
Hey, boo! It's spooky season. Here in San Francisco, the Ray of Light Theatre and Oasis Arts production of "The Rocky Horror Show" is back for another year. Two additional "Rocky Horror" tributes also arrive at the Curran Theatre and Feinstein's.
Disco, rediscovered in a new Vegas show, a book and documentaries
Disco is having another moment. Two powerful documentary films, a definitive coffee table book, and a $14 million high-tech Las Vegas experience have arrived in recent months to celebrate the music that dominated the 1970s.