-- The Gold Rush (1925): The Tramp makes his stamp here (via playing with his food) as one of America's most beloved comedic characters of the silent era. Screens tonight at 8:45 p.m. at the Castro Theatre; $6-9. -- Juliette and the Licks: Idiosyncratic actress/Scientologist and her (pretty damn good) vanity project perform along with opening acts Scissors for Lefty and Suffrajett. Music fans, the celebrity-curious, and thetans converge at 8 p.m. at Great......

As promised, the San Francisco Mime Troupe performed in Dolores Park for the public last Wednesday and last weekend. It was the premier of the group's show "Making a Killing," which lampoons the current administration. We dropped by the Sunday performance; the photo above is during a charming ditty where "Condi Rice" and "Dick Cheney" were arguing over who was more popular. ...

It's the Fourth of July! Streamers! Bunting! Brass bands! And in San Francisco.... the opening of the hotly-anticipated SF Mime Troupe production in Dolores Park! The acidly-political theater group (note: not actually mimes, though it would actually be hilarious if one year they did do an entire production in mime) is putting on free performances of "Making a Killing" every weekend at local parks throughout the area until October. This year's play is about......

What better way to celebrate Independence Day than with new plays that unapologetically explore the state of the nation?...

From the best of the Bushisms to the best of Butoh, this week offers performance covering both ends of the spectrum....

Friend of SFist Jason Schultz forwarded us a press release [PDF]. What do you get when you cross labor activism and theater nerds? Hilarity! Saint Francis, beloved patron saint of small animals and birds, and supporter of the oppressed in all communities, has descended from heaven to protest the unfair labor policies of the St. Francis Hotel. "I don’t want to raise a fuss, but these guys are using my name," explained the holy......

SFist Karen takes in the SF Mime Troupe's new show about how our fiscal behavior has wreaked havoc on third-world countries, and though she likes parts of it, she knows the Mime Troupe could do so much better....

Stage Fog gets you into the great outdoors this week....

Our weekly roundup of the theater that looks interesting to us. This week, SFist Karen hightails it out of town to Humboldt. For a theater event there. Seriously....