Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Tartuffe' at Berkeley Rep You don't need to be a scholar of theater to have heard of Tartuffe, or its acclaimed playwright Molière. Molière, like Shakespeare before him, was both an actor and playwright and has come
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Thrillpeddlers 'Jewels of Paris' At The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers have been producing their twisted follies and perverse musical revues for nearly 20 years, and Jewels of Paris at The Hypnodrome is their latest madcap musical. When you go to the theater
Arts & Entertainment Not A Joke: Eliana Lopez Is Doing A Comedic Play, In Spanish, About The Mirkarimi Domestic Abuse Scandal Well, who saw this coming? Venezuelan-born actress Eliana Lopez, who remains married to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and is the mother of his child, is now putting on a play, in Spanish, titled "Cuál
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Breaking the Code: The Alan Turing Story' at the Eureka Theater Another helping of Alan Turing homage is being served at the Eureka Theater these next few weeks with Theatre Rhinoceros’ “Breaking the Code”, which premiered Saturday night and runs through March 21. Following
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play' at A.C.T. I'll just start by explaining that Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play is not a play about The Simpsons. It may rely heavily on The Simpsons, specifically the 1993 episode of the show titled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'X's and O's' at Berkeley Rep The latest production at Berkeley Rep, the second commission this season to come out of their new incubator program The Ground Floor, is subtitled "A football love story." But the play, X's and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Indian Ink</i> at A.C.T. It is a mark of a great playwright when even his lesser works are filled with delight and intelligence of the highest order, and such is the case with Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Cable Car Nymphomaniac' from The FOGG Theatre We don't often get to see world-premiere musicals in San Francisco, let alone ones set in San Francisco A.C.T.'s Tales of the City in 2011 being one major exception. So
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'S**t & Champagne' At Oasis Heklina’s new nightclub Oasis opened its theatrical side last night with Shit & Champagne, D’Arcy Drollinger’s fantastic drag farce that originally ran last year at the space formerly known as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Kinky Boots</i> at the Orpheum The Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2013, Kinky Boots, is currently in a four-week run at the Orpheum Theater, and it's a show that's guaranteed to attract the adoration of drag fans everywhere.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Everybody Say Yeah' From 'Kinky Boots' Opening tonight in San Francisco is the first touring production of the 2013 Tony Award-winning Best New Musical, Kinky Boots, direct from Broadway where it's still playing to sellout crowds. Adapted from the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Kathleen Turner in 'Red Hot Patriot' at Berkeley Rep Biographical one-person shows aren't always the stuff of thrilling drama. But if you take a legendary actress and give her some witty material written by one of our country's great political columnists, it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Testament</i> at A.C.T. Following lackluster reviews on Broadway, Irish author Colm Toibin was glad to let A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff and resident dramaturg Michael Paller take the various versions of his story of
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Finally, Maybe Headed Back To S.F. Waterfront... In A Few Years Three years have already passed since the zany, circus-meets-cabaret-dinner-theater Teatro ZinZanni had to pack up its tent on Piers 27-29 to make way for the America's Cup and now the permanent cruise ship
Arts & Entertainment Now Playing: A New Musical About Primordial Yeasts, From The Quirky Creators of 'Urinetown' When Urinetown co-creator Greg Kotis went to see a production of Antigone at a theater festival in Transylvania, it got him thinking about writing something that was about a story even more ancient.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Pippin' at the Golden Gate Theater If you didn't once end up as a background player in a high school production of Pippin, you're probably in the minority. But the once popular often maligned 1972 musical by Stephen Schwartz
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Buyer & Cellar</i> at the Curran "I don't do Barbra," actor Michael Urie says in the opening moments of Buyer & Cellar, when he is speaking as himself, an actor who is about to play the role of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Once' at the Curran Theater The idea of the musical has changed dramatically in the last decade, between the brilliant re-stagings of Sweeney Todd and Company by director John Doyle, to the Latin-inflected, many-peopled production of In the
Arts & Entertainment Intersection For The Arts Faces Closure Without Major Fundraising Drive As we learned last month, 50-year-old Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco's oldest alternative-arts organization, is in a crisis, and its former executive director says the problem is structural. If the organization fails
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures</i> at Berkeley Rep I could quip that even the title of playwright Tony Kushner's latest work needs editing. But in reviewing such a sprawling, gut-punching, morbid, hilarious, and ridiculously dense and reference-packed work of theater by
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: 36 Stories By Sam Shepard Did you know that Carl Lumbly —that is, M.A.N.T.I.S./Agent Dixon/Martian Manhunter is also a Bay Area theatre standby? (Of course you did!) Tonight, see Lumbly and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: In Conversation With BD Wong To me, BD Wong will always be Sergeant Louie from Executive Decision. Maybe to you he's Sheng from Mulan, Dr. Huang from Law and Order: SVU, or the priest from Oz. But tonight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Suit' At A.C.T. If the words "Apartheid-era Johannesburg" were not enough to sadden or turn off a lot of theater-goers, allow me to just get this out of the way: The Suit is possibly one of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Venus In Fur' at A.C.T. Venus In Fur is intense. It's a highly intelligent piece of playwriting that requires two intelligent and fearless actors, some faultless timing, and expert, nuanced direction. Thankfully, in one of its first West
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Accidental Death Of An Anarchist' At Berkeley Rep There is more to the art of clowning than just makeup and slapstick, and no one can teach that lesson better than actor and professional stage devourer Steven Epp and his director and
