Along with our friend Dan Carbone, whom we already told you about, the NY/SF theater-as-mind-altering-device company Banana Bag & Bodice was honored on July 16th with three New York Independent Theater Awards nominations for its original play, The Rise & Fall of the Rising Fallen, last seen on this coast at the 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Rising Fallen was cited by NYIT for Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Production of a Play, and playwright......

These shows resist lumping....

San Francisco has a hot theater scene, but that doesn't mean the rest of the Bay Area doesn't sizzle as well. ...

Like we said before, you never really quite know what you’re going to get at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. But last night we did a marathon Fringe, seeing three shows between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. that ran the spectrum between existential absurdity to full-out hysterical, offensive comedy, and a rock show. We had the perfect Fringe experience. We started out with Go: A Life in Progress, conceived and performed by Gillian Chadsey......

Thursday night was night number two of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The Exit Café, Fringe headquarters, wasn't very busy, but they had the beer and free pretzels ready (you can eat and drink in the Exit's theatres). Lily, the Exit's nonchalant dog, was on dropped-taquitos patrol. First up on our Fringe itinerary was Show Me Where it Hurts by Karen Ripley and Annie Larson with the Gallimaufrey Orchestra (Dan Wortman, JX Jones and......

Get your running shoes, because it's time for the San Francisco Fringe Festival: 42 theater companies, 12 days and 7 venues. Started 14 years ago by the Exit Theatre, the San Francisco Fringe Festival, opening Wednesday, is only one of the many Fringes around the world (Edinburgh being the most well-known). Some are juried, but San Francisco is an anything goes kind of town, so the Exit prides itself on not screening any of......

The SF Fringe is underway: 45 plays, 200-something performances, all short and $8 or less a ticket. Run, don't walk!...