Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Lady Grey (in ever lower light) and Other Plays</em> at Cutting Ball Theater We're always glad to find interesting new work being performed around town, though we don't make it out to enough of it and the latest production from the Cutting Ball Theater, Lady Grey
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Homecoming</em> at A.C.T. We consider ourselves intelligent people. We went to a good college, majored in English, read a lot of plays in our day. We even did some theater, and know our prosceniums from our
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Ruined</em> at Berkeley Rep We knew from the title we weren't likely in for a cheery good time, but we went into Berkeley Rep's newest production, Ruined, without having read anything about it. The subject turns out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Clybourne Park</em> at A.C.T. We take back everything bad we've said about A.C.T.. Well, almost everything. Clybourne Park is a great choice of play, for its edginess, contemporary-ness, and wit, and the current production up
Arts & Entertainment A Drag Queen Plays Miss Peacock, and Other Highlights of the Boxcar Theatre's Production of <em>Clue</em> We haven't had the chance to review it ourselves, but please take a moment, if you're a fan of the 1985 film Clue (which was rumored to be targeted for a remake... sigh)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Last Cargo Cult</em> at Berkeley Rep In theory, we enjoy one-person shows. A charismatic performer, alone on a stage, speaking truths and telling good stories, can captivate an audience in a way that multi-person performances can't. All you have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Lemony Snicket's <em>The Composer Is Dead</em> at Berkeley Rep It's been a season for whimsy and old-fashioned clowning in local theater, with Bill Irwin bringing his adaptation of Molière's Scapin to A.C.T., and now with Berkeley Rep's new theatrical adaptation
SF News SFist Reviews: Today's San Francisco Earthquake Drill Siren Pft. Bah. Gah. What the hell was that? For starters, the alarm during today's Great Shakeout drill was weak; far too gentle on the eardrum. Also, we couldn't understand a single thing being
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Macbeth</em> at CalShakes We can't stop being impressed with CalShakes. No matter how many productions of Shakespeare they churn out (on average, two per season, with two 50+-year-old, non-Shakespeare works in repertory as well), they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Mrs. Warren's Profession</em> at CalShakes The Bay Area, sadly, does not have the same vibrant, well supported stream of new work on its theater stages as New York does Off-Broadway, but then again no American city really does.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Tosca Project</em> at A.C.T. The latest production at A.C.T. is less a theater piece than it is a dance piece, and it's not quite the experimental, genre-blurring work that it aspires to be as it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>In the Wake</em> at Berkeley Rep On paper, we'll admit, this was not a play we were necessarily excited to see: multiple lesbian characters, one woman's struggle to choose between a man and another woman set in New York
Arts & Entertainment SFist Mini-Reviews: 'Rhino' at the Boxcar Theater It's a truncated play, and we figure we'll give it a truncated review, despite the fact that our enthusiasm for this new work playing at the Boxcar Theatre (Natoma near 6th) is huge.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Round and Round the Garden</em> at A.C.T. A.C.T.'s latest production, which falls generally into the annual slot they seem to reserve for an English drawing room comedy or similar, is Alan Ayckbourn's 1973 play Round and Round
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Girlfriend</em> at Berkeley Rep Following on the success earlier this season of American Idiot (which just premiered on Broadway this week to a NYT accolade of "thrillingly raucous and gorgeously wrought"), Berkeley Rep returns with another rock
Arts & Entertainment Coachella 2010 Dispatch: Days 2 & 3 Were Better We got over our trauma of getting there and getting in, and started enjoying ourselves more by Day 2, when several of our favorite acts came on, including SF's own Girls and Faith
Arts & Entertainment Coachella a Holy Mess, But Passion Pit and Jay-Z Were Good Unlike in previous years when the enormous desert music fest felt relatively organized, if chaotic, Coachella 2010 feels like an overcrowded nightmare and it's not just because we're getting older. A lot of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Vigil</em> Starring Olympia Dukakis at A.C.T. Oh, we are starved for celebrity around here, aren't we... so much so that the A.C.T. will probably see a great turnout for their latest play Vigil, despite word probably already
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Concerning Strange Devices From the Distant West</em> Seeing shows at Berkeley Rep is an exciting and revivifying experience, with new works like Green Day's American Idiot and 2008's Passing Strange that essentially do their Broadway tryouts there, and talents like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Caucasian Chalk Circle</em> at A.C.T. What do you think of when you think of Bertolt Brecht? Dreary, austere, Marxist, unemotional theater built around fable-like premises. Maybe you've heard some of the Threepenny Opera with the score by Kurt
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tick Tick Boom from Theatre Rhinoceros The nation's oldest queer theater organization, SF's Theatre Rhinoceros, is celebrating its 32nd season this year without a permanent space to call home, having left their space on 16th Street due to lease
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Phèdre</em> at A.C.T. Classical theater is tough on many levels. It's tough on actors, who have to allude and emote using words that are often much more heady and complicated than they're used to; and it's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Morrissey @ The Paramount, Oakland Last night old Moz paid a visit to the Bay Area, and he didn't cancel the show or collapse on stage. That's the good news. Also for good news, he played a ton
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Erased James Franco</em> at the Castro Theater Some collaborations between Hollywood people and non-Hollywood artists yield magical results -- take Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers' work on Where the Wild Things Are, for example -- but in the case of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Tiny Kushner</em> at Berkeley Rep The production currently playing on the thrust stage at Berkeley Rep -- while American Idiot finishes out its raucous pre-Broadway run in the Roda Theater -- is Tiny Kushner, a collection of one-act
