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

Stage Review

‘Omar’ is pretty to look at, but opera treats slavery with kid gloves

November 13, 2023

New work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels traces the tempestuous life of enslaved African scholar Omar ibn Said.

Stage Review

‘The Engine of Our Disruption’: Rev up the tech industry satire

November 9, 2023

Patricia Milton's swing at our overlords, playing at Central Works, works best when things get personal.

Art Review

‘Custer had it coming’: Duane Linklater’s missives from an Indigenous present

November 7, 2023

In 'mymothersside' at BAMPFA, the Omaskêko Cree artist considers the importance of anti-colonialist language.

Stage Review

A dreamlike tale of anxious immigrant experiences in ‘Citizen’

October 30, 2023

Word for Word stages Greg Sarris' story of a young Mexican-Native American man grappling with a unique identity

Stage Review

A man, a plan, a swan: SF Opera’s ‘Lohengrin’ shimmers despite Wagner’s bloat

October 24, 2023

Striking sets, strong company, and excellent conducting by Eun Sun Kim enliven this epic journey through German folklore.

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

Charles Lewis III

‘Omar’ is pretty to look at, but opera treats slavery with kid gloves

‘The Engine of Our Disruption’: Rev up the tech industry satire

‘Custer had it coming’: Duane Linklater’s missives from an Indigenous present

A dreamlike tale of anxious immigrant experiences in ‘Citizen’

A man, a plan, a swan: SF Opera’s ‘Lohengrin’ shimmers despite Wagner’s bloat

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

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