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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

Sympathetic ‘A Picture of Two Boys’ tells story of friendship under fire

It's a tale that will feel familiar to many—but does the play have what it takes to do the trope justice?

SF Opera dazzles with new ‘La Traviata,’ ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ productions

Centennial season swings for the fences—and freshens up two traditional classics.

A hot splash of Viêt history in ‘Colonialism is Terrible, but Phở is Delicious’

Dustin H. Chinn's often hilarious, scalding play at Aurora takes on gentrification and cultural erasure

Trans power takes center stage in ‘The Red Shades’ and ‘Pony’

Cutting Ball's identity-oriented murder mystery and a 'superhero rock opera' at Z Space show why SF's theater scene is unique

A love reappraised in ‘Grandma & Me,’ lesbian telenovela drama in ‘Overlooked Latinas’

At The Marsh SF, solo shows by Brian Copeland and Tina D'Elia gain much from the electric charge of a live audience

2 very San Franciscan blood baths, to take the edge off

Killing My Lobster's 'Freddy Krueger's Day Off' and Misfit Cabaret's 'Bite' bleed true.

‘The New Black Vanguard’ displays power at nexus of art and fashion

MoAD features 15 contemporary photographers expanding rigid narratives about Black media imagery

Irma Herrera takes on tricky identity issues in ‘Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name?’

At The Marsh Berkeley, the Tejana civil rights lawyer connects her story to the current state of the world

Clash of generations in ‘Aunt Jack’ hilariously upends LGBTQ+ cliches

Nora Brigid Monahan's West Coast premiere at New Conservatory seizes on familiar genre tropes to tell a necessary story

Rousing ‘Indecent’ is a celebration of Judaism and theater

SF Playhouse production of Paula Vogel's play delves deep in the past to question the political role of art