Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac's 'Joy and Pandemic' Premiere Postponed at Magic Theatre; Berkeley Rep Delays Reopening Two Bay Area theaters announced surge-related postponements today, joining a parade of events and performers that are moving dates further into the future due to the ongoing pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Playwright Mfoniso Udofia Explores A Unique Immigrant Family Saga In Her 9-Play 'Ufot Cycle' Acclaimed playwright Mfoniso Udofia did not set out to write plays, let alone to write an ambitious nine-play cycle that spans decades and chronicles multiple generations of a single family.
Arts & Entertainment Magic Theatre Expanding To Mid-Market, But Not Relocating When we originally heard about the plans for the massive new mixed-use development headed for a long blighted block of Mid-Market, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, back in early 2014, it was set
Arts & Entertainment From Macbeth to Coward: A Bay Area Winter Theater Preview Now that the holidays are behind us, we can focus on the ongoing and upcoming seasons of our best local theater companies. And assuming you like live theater and don't always know what's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Every Five Minutes When's the last time you went to a play? Tonight's the night for you to get a better answer to that question, at Magic Theatre's world premiere of Linda McLean’s Every Five
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Hir' At Magic Theatre Hir, the latest new work to premiere at San Francisco's Magic Theatre comes from New York playwright, artist, and drag performer Taylor Mac, and though he doesn't appear in it, it shows him
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Happy Ones' at the Magic Theatre We don't make it out to The Magic Theatre too often, in large part because of the travel anxiety associated with getting out of the Marina after dark, but for all those of
Arts & Entertainment Spring Theater Preview Spring is officially here, after a very spring-like winter, and now it's time to bring you a roundup of theater happenings around the Bay Area as our local theater companies wind down their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers: Not only does this "Basie-esque" outfit perform lush jazz and blues tunes, but the chanteuse is pretty funny in between songs. Check them out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marke B judges a damp jockstrap contest come midnight at ‘70s/‘80s retro dance club “The Rod.” Damn perverts. All of them. Goes from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. at
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Opposites Attract at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts Hell yeah, we'd trek all the way to San Jose to see Molly Ringwald! What self-respecting John Hughes-fanatic/thirty-something would pass that one up? Well,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's All Meta at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts This is our pick for most anticipated show of the season, and the season's barely started. This multimedia performance by The Builders Association and dbox played
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Live on the Edge at Intersection for the Arts Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch is one of the most exciting younger artists San Francisco has to offer, and has blown our mind with her past two shows. This
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Old Lit, New School at Magic Theatre When our dreams of home ownership conjures visions of $1 million fixer-uppers and our futures are laden with credit card debt, the story of the American Dream seems about as
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Oh, The Horror at Magic Theatre Killer Joe is one of the best plays so far in 2006. Why haven't you seen it, you wonder? Probably because it played way the hell up in Mill Valley,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Crossing Genres at the Magic Theatre Christmas, in May? Well, yeah. The Magic Theatre rearranged its season a bit. But The Long Christmas Ride Home may be worth the wait. Penned by Paula Vogel as
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Take a Break from the Holidays at Magic Theatre Extended to New Year's Eve due to great reviews, The Hopper Collection is a world premiere by one of those young up-and-coming writers that makes the rest of us who
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Something for Everyone For the last couple of weeks, Stage Fog has been rather thematic, which makes for a nice, tight column. But sometimes we just want variety. Mix those peas and carrots! Besides, the Shakespeare
