Sponsored link
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Sponsored link

Charles Lewis III

Charles Lewis III
265 POSTS1 COMMENTS
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

2022’s highlights on stage, in a year of navigating theater’s return

The best (and worst) of welcome Bay Area productions—but let's remember that COVID is still with us, please.

A very queer Christmas: ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Misfit Cabaret’ deliver SF charm

Rooting for the wicked witch? Holiday sprites intent on removing the candy cane from one's rear end? Sounds like our beautiful Bay.

Update on the Bard’s gender-bending ‘As You Like It’ is a year-end treat

... too bad the company fails to heed its Shakespearean warning.

Future ghosts: Jota Mombaça and the sinking ship of climate change

We're all getting ready for our haunting, the multimedia artist tells an audience at Kadist.

Jeannine Anderson soars above white noise in ‘Halie! The Mahalia Jackson Musical’

Opera singer may have performance of the year in Darryl V. Jones’ long-gestating Lorraine Hansberry Theater project

Moors at 11: A dialed-up ‘Wuthering Heights’ boasts great music

But Emma Rice and Wise Children’s stripped-down, slapstick adaptation at Berkeley Rep can't escape tonal whiplash

A Polish Resistance hero brought to life in ‘Remember This’

Storied actor David Strathairn inhabits Holocaust witness Jan Karski at Berkeley Rep, despite a strangely inert script

Santa Claws: Killing My Lobster’s ‘A Very Special Holiday Special’ is merry and bright

The lauded sketch comedy troupe knows just how to mine seasonal frustration for laughs and pathos

Ariadne retold: ‘Mark of the Minotaur’ reclaims tale of a linguistics great

In playwright Sharon Eberhardt's telling, Alice Kober's life intertwines with Grecian myth.

Ignore the plot: ‘The Great Comet’ seeks to entertain

With a cast of two dozen, the Shotgun Players have a blast. Shame about the dropped COVID restrictions.