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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

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.

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