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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

Clearing the cobwebs from ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ at Center Rep

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Cal Shakes returns with a sparkling cast for ‘As You Like It’

The rescued company's new production dazzles, but sudden tonal shifts can leave one lost in the forest of Arden.

Death is a vivid handshake in beguiling ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

SF Opera's Verdi is taut and athletic under conductor Eun Sun Kim, with a game cast and striking costumes.

In ‘Paradise,’ Puerto Rico’s colonial struggles reflected in everyday life

Tere Martínez's bright, brief play at Brava shows how imperialism becomes the norm by pitting folks against one another.

In peppy ‘Legally Blonde,’ institutional sexism in pink and white

Ray of Light Theatre casting a Black lead in beloved story adds much-needed diversity, but also some confusion.

SF-born ‘Wicked’ celebrates its 20th anniversary

Why fix that witch ain't broken?

Art is dead, long live art

Decaying works, deceased creatives—in new exhibition, the Berkeley Art Museum imagines itself a columbarium.

Promising ‘Richard II’ doesn’t quite take the crown

... and with this cast and stage design, that's a true historical tragedy.

In ‘Shipping & Handling,’ a meta-sci-fi scan of AI and Blackness

Star Finch's latest delves into contemporary concerns about what kind of robots will take over the world.

A spirited dash through Black music history in ‘Following the Road to Ose Tura’

Last weekend at Dance Mission, Adia Tamar Whitaker and Àṣẹ Dance Theater connected African villages to US streets.