Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Speakeasy' From The Boxcar Theatre As immersive, progressive performance experiences go, you aren't going to find much that isn't fun and cool about the Boxcar Theatre's latest, highly ambitious offsite project, The Speakeasy. It's a fully realized, choose-your-own
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 House That Will Not Stand' at Berkeley Rep Plays about race are often tough sells, especially when the play has a didactic motive around a racially relevant moment in history. But even though The House That Will Not Stand, in a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Major Barbara' at A.C.T. "Funny" is the last adjective that you might expect would apply to a philosophical play from 1905 that centers on a major in the Salvation Army and her estranged, munitions manufacturer father. But
Arts & Entertainment PianoFight's Tenderloin Arts Space Is The Arts Space San Francisco Needs Local theater, comedy and improv troupe PianoFight is in the final days of a fundraising campaign for a brand new, three-stage theater, arts space and full service bar & restaurant in the Tenderloin.
Arts & Entertainment Interactive 'Speakeasy' Play, With Its Own Bar And Casino, Premieres This Week This Friday, a new experience in "immersive" theater is debuting at an undisclosed location in the Tenderloin where you'll need a password to enter (kind of like at Bourbon & Branch, the 8-year-old
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: The Golden Girls Christmas Episodes December is rife with charming holiday traditions, but there's a special joy in ones that are singular to San Francisco. Thankfully, one of the city's beloved December traditions is back with tonight's premiere
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Tristan & Yseult' At Berkeley Rep It's been a good year for Bay Area theater overall, with some stellar productions like SHN's Anything Goes, Black Watch from A.C.T. and the National Theater of Scotland, and No Man's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Book Of Mormon,' The Second U.S. Touring Cast We checked out the newest production of the Tony Award-winning musical Book of Mormon last week, and much like the first touring cast who came through San Francisco last fall, these performers are
Arts & Entertainment You Can Still Get 'Book Of Mormon' Tickets Via Lottery Hoorah! Book of Mormon opens next week for its second run in San Francisco (see our review from last year's touring production), and if you hadn't heard, it's a hilarious and wonderful musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Cirque du Soleil's 'Amaluna' We weren't quite sure what to expect entering Cirque du Soleil's big top behind AT&T Park on Friday, having only ever seen the Canadian-born troupe on television two decades or so
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Peter and the Starcatcher' at the Curran Theater The new school of theater is all about old-school ingenuity, energy, and devising scenes without the crutches of fancy sets or special effects. Peter and the Starcatcher, the Tony Award-winning play based on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The West End Production of 'Merrily We Roll Along,' Via CinemaLive A unique opportunity to see a piece of the recent London theater scene arrived in San Francisco, and in cities across the country, this past week. Digital Theatre, an organization that's been partnering
Arts & Entertainment 'Friends: Live' Coming! Could You Be Any More Excited? Local drag artistes have joined forces to reimagine onstage what is arguably the greatest sitcom ever to air. We are, of course, talking about Friends. (Fine, it's a three-way tie between Seinfeld and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike' At Berkeley Rep Let's just say up front that I'm a whore for references. Toss a few movie lines into a conversation, namedrop some playwrights, or expound upon 80s television shows, and I'm putty in your
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: '1776' at A.C.T. Some musicals survive the test of time because of a few catchy, radio-friendly songs and a farcical book that still feels tight and buoyant decades later Anything Goes is a good example that
Arts & Entertainment You Ever Wanted To Be In 'Beach Blanket Babylon'? Now's Your Chance Get out your sheet music, all ye showpeople. It's audition time for S.F.'s ever so long-running, ever-changing, pop-culture- and political-referencing revue Beach Blanket Babylon, so now's your chance to become a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: We Players' 'Macbeth' Here's the first thing you should know about Fort Point after dark: even if you've been sweating like porcine on one of San Francisco's hottest weekends, come nightfall you will still be shrouded
SF News Marin Man Sues Blue Man Group Over 'Injury To His Nervous System' You can't smoke a cigarette on stage in a Berkeley theater without notifying local authorities and posting many a warning placard, so it shouldn't come as a shock that we live in one
Arts & Entertainment Audience Member At 'No Man's Land' Passes Out, Refuses To Go To Hospital Until He Sees The End An 80-year-old man who attended opening night of No Man's Land at Berkeley Rep on Sunday reportedly passed out with about 30 minutes left in the second act of the play. He was
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: 'Into the Woods' However striped down, Stephen Sondheim's works have been the go-to revival on Broadway when it comes to musicals. Sweeney Todd, Company, Passion, A Little Night Music, and (arguably his best) Follies came back
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'American Night' At CalShakes Much like they did with last summer's Spunk, CalShakes veered away from their standard repertoire of 20th Century classics and Shakespeare plays with the selection of Richard Montoya's American Night: The Ballad of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' There are too few contemporary plays that are instant classics, but Tom Stoppard's 20-year-old masterwork Arcadia is one of them. It's dense with language yet buoyant in style, speaking to the present as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Pericles' at Berkeley Rep In the hands of certain directors, contemporary productions of Shakespeare can become something far greater than the sum of their parts. Mark Wing-Davey is one of those directors, and his take on Pericles,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Stuck Elevator' At A.C.T. It's hard to criticize a piece of musical theater that is as ambitious, poignant, and unique as Stuck Elevator without coming off as a philistine, and for that A.C.T. deserves some
