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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

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Kina Kantor

Extolling the virtues of an in-demand theater talent, from turns in Berkeley Rep's 'Uncle Vanya' to Bindlestiff's 'The Love Edition.'

Drama Masks: Killing My Lobster takes a bow with one last (for now) nerdy number

The company may be folding, but not without sending a reminder of why it's been so beloved with 'Legends & Laughter.'

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Terror Vault

We come for the jump scares, but stay for the world-building—and vampire cocktails—at the annual SF Mint fright fest.

Drama Masks: We’re going to be OK, dammit

Joe Goode's 'Are You Okay?' tells terribly sad tales, yet wisely refuses to give into nihilism.

Comedy troupe Killing My Lobster suspends operations after 25 years

Beloved sketch stalwarts to call it quits after next show due to NEA and other foundation cuts.

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.