Arts & Entertainment 'Warplay' Is A Spare, Moving Riff On A Great Greek Love Story The two men portrayed in Warplay, while ostensibly based on Achilles and his best friend and lover Patroclus, are as much foils for each other as they are romantic partners. Named just A
Arts & Entertainment 'Janis Joplin' At ACT Is An Intoxicating Summer Of Love Jukebox Musical There is currently an overflowing, lovin’ spoonful of Summer of Love commemorations in San Francisco, from street fairs to outdoor concerts to retail window displays but none of them really offers a plausible
Arts & Entertainment The Cast Of 'Hamilton' In San Francisco Will Perform The National Anthem At NBA Finals Game 5 Fun news for Hamilton fanatics: Since this is the theater's traditional night off, the cast of the national tour who's currently in San Francisco is heading across the Bay to sing the national
Arts & Entertainment 'Monsoon Wedding' Extended Another Week At Berkeley Rep By Popular Demand The world-premiere musical adaptation of the film Monsoon Wedding (see my SFist review here), now playing at Berkeley Rep, has just been extended for the third time, and there is now a new
Arts & Entertainment Go Be In This Thing: Taylor Mac Needs Extras For SF Video Shoot Saturday The groundbreaking, 24-hour-long, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist musical A 24-Decade History of Popular Music is returning to San Francisco this September, and to that end the production is shooting a promo
Arts & Entertainment Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding' Becomes An Exuberant, Big-Hearted Musical At Berkeley Rep "There's so much music at an Indian wedding! It makes perfect sense as a musical," said director Mira Nair when she was trying to sell Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone on her
Arts & Entertainment 'Battlefield' At ACT Offers Some Ancient Wisdom On War, Not A Lot Else I'm willing to accept that, perhaps, I am not the right audience for the work of Peter Brook the acclaimed English theater and film director who once brought the epic Indian myth The
Arts & Entertainment 'Needles & Opium' at ACT Combines Stunning Design With Some Humdrum Text It isn't often enough that ACT plays host to a work of such jaw-dropping visual innovation as Needles and Opium, and so I come around to my thoughts on the piece as a
Arts & Entertainment ACT Artistic Director Carey Perloff To Retire After Next Season The artistic directors at the Bay Area's two biggest regional theaters, American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theater, both have one foot out the door, meaning we're on the eve of a potentially
Arts & Entertainment Good Things Come In 'Three's Company Live!', Now Back At Oasis You know exactly what you’re going to get at Three’s Company Live!, which opened last night at Oasis and runs through April 29. Just as with Heklina and D’Arcy Drollinger’
Arts & Entertainment 'Eclipsed' Is A Harrowing And Essential Glimpse At Liberia's Recent History Danai Gurira's 2009 play Eclipsed made a splash on Broadway last year with Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o starring, and it's currently finishing a short, two-week run at the newly reopened Curran Theater the second
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'John' Is A Weird, Delicious Treat Annie Baker's latest play , currently running at ACT's Strand Theatre, is a story about truth, lies, madness, God, ghosts, and Vienna Fingers, although not necessarily in that order. John is set in a
Arts & Entertainment A Reimagined, Stripped-Down 'Into The Woods' Is A Sondheim Lover's Delight For those who waited decades to see Into the Woods given the full Hollywood treatment, CGI giant and all, the current production of the musical at SHN's Golden Gate Theater may come as
Arts & Entertainment SF Shakes Celebrates 35 Years With '35 Famous Speeches in 35 Famous Places' All Over San Francisco The scrappy local theater troupe known as the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is celebrating their 35th season in SF this year, and they're doing with an extended series of brief outdoor performances in
Arts & Entertainment 'Fun Home' At The Curran Is As Funny, Wrenching, And Complicated As It Was On Broadway For the inaugural production at the newly renovated, thoroughly gorgeous Curran producer and artistic director Carole Shorenstein Hays brought a show that had won wide praise and several Tony Awards, despite being a
Arts & Entertainment 'Finding Neverland' Is Escapist, Schmaltzy, And Visually Dazzling The latest show in the SHN season is Finding Neverland, the 2014 musical based on the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee and subsequent 2004 film Finding Neverland,
Arts & Entertainment Future Of Thrillpeddlers Theater Company In Question As Hypnodrome Venue Is Sold In SOMA Sad news in the local theater world this weekend as we learned that The Hypnodrome, the tucked-away SoMa home to the zany, drag- and horror-obsessed theater company known as Thrillpeddlers, has been sold
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' National Tour Cast Includes Members Of Broadway And Chicago Casts Casting for the first national tour of Broadway smash hit Hamilton, which officially kicks off here in SF in March, was just announced, and among the principal cast members are performers who are
Arts & Entertainment Video: Carrie Fisher's Berkeley Rep Show Remembered In Interview In 2008, the late Carrie Fisher told local news station ABC7 that she was "a better writer than an actor," before demonstrating her way with words by joking that people always told her
Arts & Entertainment 'The Speakeasy' Remains An Unpredictable, Immersive Delight In Its New North Beach Digs The first entry point for The Speakeasy is Jack Kerouac Alley, the narrow walking street between Vesuvio and City Lights Books named for an American writer who was himself born too late to
Arts & Entertainment [Update] 'Hamilton' Online Ticket Queue Swells 100,000+ As In-Person Fans Go To War With Line-Cutters When your #Hamilton alarm doesn't go off and you log on 6 min late...only a mere 99,405 people ahead of me 😭 #hamiltonSF pic.twitter.com/Cyh7WugSYM— Kelsey (@Kelsey_001) December 12,
Arts & Entertainment Meet The People Who Camped Out Overnight For <i>Hamilton</i> Tickets Today tips off a Tulip mania the likes of which the Bay Area ticket market has never seen. Tickets for the runaway smash hit musical Hamilton went on sale to the general public
Arts & Entertainment '946: The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips' Brims With Inventive Energy At Berkeley Rep In what's become a welcome, holiday-season tradition at Berkeley Rep, Britain's Kneehigh Theatre company has returned once more for their fourth production on a Berkeley stage, a new piece adapted from a World
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 'Hamilton' Tickets Go On Pre-Sale Monday Morning, General Sale December 12 As you likely already know, the absurdly popular Hamilton is set to come to San Francisco this spring — opening on March 14 and running through August 5. We now learn via SHN that
Arts & Entertainment <i>Last Tiger In Haiti</i> Eats You Up With Suspense At Berkeley Rep You ever see a show that just seems like a bunch of random, disparate plot points, but then those random, disparate plot points all come together to form an unexpected, harrowing climax that
