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Charles Lewis III

Charles Lewis III
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Charles Lewis III is a San Francisco-born journalist, theatre artist, and arts critic. You can find dodgy evidence of this at thethinkingmansidiot.wordpress.com

Drama Masks: A ping-ponging in the mind—and a tennis match of wits

Candace Johnson's 'Scat-ter Brain: The Music of ADHD' and Golden Thread's 'The Return,' reviewed.

Drama Masks: Chasing ghosts of SF past in ‘Night Driver’

At The Marsh-SF, Pearl Ong recalls leaving Hong Kong in the 1970s, driving a cab, and discovering her lesbian self.

Drama Masks: We just lost Jerry again

Local indie theater scene suffers another setback—but it's not Dead. Plus: Pushing a real estate scam too far at the Marsh.

Drama Masks: Still searching for those signs of intelligent life…

Marga Gomez does a classic her way. Plus: 'Magnolia Ballet' gets so much right about Black toxic masculinity.

Giant steps (and little ones, too) toward reclaiming ‘Black Spaces’

OMCA show delves into Black community displacement and repossession history, from bullet-ridden mailbox to Moms for Housing triumph.

Drama Masks: ‘Les Blancs’ is one of the best shows of the year

Oakland Theater Project brings the heat. Plus: Queer dinosaurs run amok with the double entendres in 'Jurassiq Parq.'

Drama Masks: Despite cutbacks, SF Mime Troupe’s ‘Disruption’ hits home

Poignant 66th season show takes on Ice detentions, apolitical hypocrisy, and a 'Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Fire Department'

Drama Masks: In ‘Aztlán,’ gripped by intense forces beyond control

Magic Theatre melds carceral to mystical. Plus: Enthralling 'The Last Goat' presents Ancient Greek tale that does much with little.

Drama Masks: Finding the comfort zone

Queers do the classics in 'Coriolanus,' 'The Blackest Wrench' provides a Juneteenth safe space, more.

Drama Masks: No time to be nice

'La Bohème' proves its supremacy in welcoming newcomers to opera's bombast, 'Co-founders' tries to play it both ways.