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Year on Stage, 2024, part 2: The highs took a bold stand

The best productions of the year faced what was happening in the world directly, offering oases of inspiration.

Latine update of Coward’s ‘Private Lives’ added layers to 100-year-old toxic tale

At ACT, director K.J. Sanchez's race-bent casting discovered new depths in the marriage-is-hell comedy.

Promising ‘Richard II’ doesn’t quite take the crown

... and with this cast and stage design, that's a true historical tragedy.

In ‘Shipping & Handling,’ a meta-sci-fi scan of AI and Blackness

Star Finch's latest delves into contemporary concerns about what kind of robots will take over the world.

Load up the truck with family drama, it’s time to hit ‘Mother Road’

Octavio Solis’ latest at Berkeley Rep puts a racial spin on father-son dynamics and the burden of inheritance.

A time-jumping tale of environmental degradation in ‘Garuda’s Wing’

Gripping tale and great ensemble work from Magic Theatre drive home heavy subject without bumper sticker platitudes.

Eviction breeds guerrillas as the people fight back in ‘Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad’

Ashley Smiley's world premiere at Magic Theatre presses hot button issues through the lives of Black San Franciscans.

It’s AI versus a good bowl of pho in ‘My Home on the Moon’

Minna Lee's Asian-focused queer sci-fi love story at SF Playhouse plumbs all-too-human depths of the uncanny valley.

An excellent ‘Odyssey’ of surprises at Marin Theatre Company

Lisa Peterson puts the Western classic in the hands of four refugee women, who bring it to deeply resonant life

Monk ado about belief and destiny in Luis Alfaro’s ‘The Travelers’

The playwright's recent work at Magic Theater followed a monastery suffering a crisis of faith and funds.