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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
Stage Review

Drama Masks: Bizet’s score still blazes in SF Opera’s ‘Carmen’

Conductor Benjamin Manis barely lets up. Plus: Shotgun Players' 'Thirty-Six' drags young dating scene into spotlight, apps and all.
Stage Review

Drama Masks: Surround yourself with family, of whatever kind you choose

Our new stage column reviews 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding,' 'Lettere d'Amore,' and Left Coast Theatre Co.'s 'Found Family'
Stage Review

Drama Masks: When the whole world feels ‘Akimbo’

Our new theater column: 'Kimberly Akimbo' at the Curran and '180 Days. To Die. To Live' at the March-Berkeley take on death, and life.
Stage Review

Drama Mask: ‘Matchbox Magic Flute’ is a mini-Mozart marvel

Our new theatre column reviews Mary Zimmerman's gateway opera, Sara Porkalob's wild 'Dragon Lady,' and a bewildering 'Ghost Quartet.'
Arts + Culture

Can’t they stay this way forever? Only if they bridge ‘The Gulf’

At New Conservatory, a toxic Southern-fried lesbian relationship tries to stay afloat through a Bayou fishing trip.
Stage Review

Two mighty giants of art go wall-to-wall in ‘The Contest’

Leonardo da Vinci vs. Michelangelo (with assists from Machiavelli) in Gary Graves' compelling drama at Berkeley City Club.
Stage Review

Top-notch cast and perfect timing bring cascades of laughter in ‘Fallen Angels’

Noël Coward's classic is reanimated at Aurora Theatre in grand style—and dials up the himbo-factor.
Art Review

Turbulence of recent past thrums though ‘Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions’

KADIST show takes on poignant personal effects of racism, fentanyl, queerphobia—but leaves out pandemic elephant in the room
Stage Review

At SF Opera, a ‘Tristan and Isolde’ that’s hardly a tragedy

Eun Sun Kim's conducting is so masterful, she makes Wagner's five-hour tale of dramatic love and death almost fun.
Stage Review

Sharp & Fine’s ‘A Detective Story’ danced seductively around its central mystery

World premiere at Z Space offered queer love, monstrous transformations supernatural moves... and a lingering question.
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