Emily Wilson
Dimensions Dance comes ‘Armed with Joy’ and ‘Sanctuary’
Spring show 'We Have Ourselves' engages with gentrification, privacy, diaspora, Black history, and the right to experience happiness.
Monet’s late bloomers hold surprises at de Young
Working through personal tragedy and the onset of war, the French impressionist deepened his exploration of nature and his own garden.
Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic
Two installments of playwright Mfoniso Udofia's acclaimed nine-play Ufot Family Cycle—'In Old Age" and 'Her Portmanteau'—come to the Magic Theatre and ACT Strand.
In ‘La Ronde,’ a merry-go-round of trysts—with a twist
Cutting Ball Theatre's Ariel Craft on the pleasures and challenges of staging a 100-year-old play about sex—including hiring an 'intimacy coordinator.'
Exploring consent—and its conversations—in ‘Actually’
Michael A. Curry plays a Black freshman under pressure at Princeton in Anna Ziegler's play about a fraught encounter.
In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy
The playwright's latest, at San Francisco Playhouse, joyfully takes on mindfulness and commercialism.
Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’
Colin Thomson portrays NYC's Mayor LaGuardia, a Republican who embraced immigrants' rights, stood with unions, and still gets sampled in hip-hop.
Exploring the ‘Convergence’ of Yiddish and African American spiritual music
Singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell reactivates a bedrock of American music: Black people and Jews jamming together.
Detailing the splashy brilliance of Berkeley Rep’s ‘Metamorphoses’
Actor Benjamin Ismail describes the challenging rewards of bringing Ovid's myths to the stage—in a pool of water.
Teens takeover the Contemporary Jewish Museum — and it’s about time
From DJs to designers, the institution hands over the programming reins to the younger generation on Sat/9