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

Performance

447 Minna: Best of the Bay 2023 Editors’ Pick

October 24, 2023

The new performance venue is already helping indie arts companies with outsider sensibilities find a new home

Stage Review

Bleep, bloop, apocalypse: ‘Rossum’s Universal Robots’ looks back to the future

October 20, 2023

Cutting Ball's latest searches for ghosts in the machine of a 1920 text, amid our 2023 tech overload

Best of the Bay

BAM House: Best of the Bay 2023 Editors’ Pick

October 18, 2023

Oakland Poet Laureate and cultural architect Ayodele Nzinga opens a rare space for Black arts in the Town

Art Review

A view of ‘Bay Area Now 9’: Protective orishas, booming speakers, and complex queries

October 16, 2023

30 Bay Area creatives receive their due inside the well-resourced art institution's walls.

Art Review

24-karat gowns, ghost handprints, powerful hair, more in MoAD’s fall exhibitions

October 12, 2023

New exhibits uplift and memorialize through ravishing color, while provoking thoughts about the SF just beyond the walls

Stage Review

An influencer meets her maker in Crowded Fire’s ‘Edit Annie’

October 12, 2023

Mary Glen Fredrick's long-gestating West Coast premiere is a sharp look at female scrutiny in the Instagram Age

Stage Review

‘Nollywood Dreams’ sends up a fly-by-night film industry with knowing delight

October 11, 2023

Jocelyn Bioh comedy-drama at SF Playhouse lovingly skewers a ripe target with sharp wit and a plum cast.

Stage Review

In ‘Before the Sword,’ beloved fantasy author becomes metaphorical Merlin

October 10, 2023

Engaging New Conservatory play puts a (slightly) queer spin on an episode in 'Sword in the Stone' writer TH White's life

Stage Review

‘POTUS’ may be a dumbass, but the satire is toothless, alas

October 3, 2023

Berkeley Rep comedy wants to show how hard women work behind powerful men, yet lands in generic sitcom territory.

Music

In SF Opera’s ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,’ a dial-up portrait of a complex Goliath

October 2, 2023

The trademark jeans and turtleneck are there, but details are as thin as an iPhone in new opera

Charles Lewis III

447 Minna: Best of the Bay 2023 Editors’ Pick

Bleep, bloop, apocalypse: ‘Rossum’s Universal Robots’ looks back to the future

BAM House: Best of the Bay 2023 Editors’ Pick

A view of ‘Bay Area Now 9’: Protective orishas, booming speakers, and complex queries

24-karat gowns, ghost handprints, powerful hair, more in MoAD’s fall exhibitions

An influencer meets her maker in Crowded Fire’s ‘Edit Annie’

‘Nollywood Dreams’ sends up a fly-by-night film industry with knowing delight

In ‘Before the Sword,’ beloved fantasy author becomes metaphorical Merlin

‘POTUS’ may be a dumbass, but the satire is toothless, alas

In SF Opera’s ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,’ a dial-up portrait of a complex Goliath

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