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Onstage

Conquering funding travails, tricky chords, Sondheim’s ‘Pacific Overtures’ returns

Director Nick Ishimaru and crew determined to bring play's surprising blend of cultures back to the Bay.
Arts + Culture Emily Wilson -
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Drama Masks: ‘Parade’ and its mob justice feel too close for comfort

Harold Prince's tale of a hapless Brooklyn Jew in Georgia pulls the thread of prejudice left to fester.
Stage Review Charles Lewis III -
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Sasha Velour’s ‘Big Reveal’? Upcoming Berkeley run is her hometown debut

Bay-born drag star holds nothing back in show that drips with queer resilience.
Performance Joshua Rotter -
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Drama Masks: Who is to blame for that?

'To My Girls' strips away a Millennial's gay-tastic getaway, while 'Yellow Face' dives into thorny racial casting itself.
Stage Review Charles Lewis III -
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Dance

AXIS Dance Company and Dr. Catie Cuan on the high-tech art of ‘choreorobotics’

Aimée Ts'ao -
Will it take a dancer to improve our relationship with machines?
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Aurora Theatre suspends season—after putting on a hell of a show

Charles Lewis III -
'Crumbs from the Table of Joy' delivers, as does Berkeley Rep's 'the aves' and 'Compton's Cafeteria Riot.'
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: All ABBA the myths of stage critics

Charles Lewis III -
'Mamma Mia!' does its crowd-pleasing thing, while 'Ironbound' goes deep with carefully textured take on houselessness.
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Arts + Culture

Bay Area arts organizations reel, vow to survive NEA grant cancellations

Caitlin Donohue -
Agency's new 'priorities' include supporting communities of color, despite defunding BIPOC-led organizations.
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Performance

Eight years in, Oaklash is setting the inclusive drag festival standard

Daniel Sanchez-Torres -
Curtain rises on queered classical violin, public art installations—and even a 'Drag Race' winner.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: The fight is just beginning

Charles Lewis III -
SF Mime Troupe needs our help. Plus: 'Simple Mexican Pleasures,' 'The Last of the Love Letters,' 'Shameless Hussy' reviewed.
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Onstage

An interstellar drag quest to save the galaxy (and you call the shots)

Marke B. -
Media Meltdown's 'Select Thine Own Journey... in Space!' melds love of Dungeons & Dragons, '90s YA lit, and campy cosmic flicks.
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Onstage

From a Pedro Pascal prompt, ‘The Last of the Love Letters’

Emily Wilson -
Ngozi Anyanwu's play at Z Below was written in a fervor after the actor prodded her with a playbill and a lack of 'insane' roles.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: ‘Two Trains Running’ is an electrifying triumph

Charles Lewis III -
August Wilson's dialog drives an epic critique of Black capitalism at ACT. Plus: Hilarious heathens of Killing My Lobster go all in for sin.
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Dance

A Smuin season shaped by DJ playlists, sexy sculpture, drag queen fame

Aimée Ts'ao -
The SF company returns, enlisting the talents of Auguste Rodin, the Partridge Family, Queen, and Lady Camden.
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Onstage

Don’t box Isaac Mizrahi in—or turn off his mic

Joshua Rotter -
The fashion icon steps into his most courageous project yet, bringing his jazzy 'Life is a Cabaret' show to the stage.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Walking in circles

Charles Lewis III -
Shocking banality of evil in 'Here There Are Blueberries' and an Armenian cry against injustice, with puppets, in 'Azad.'
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Dance

It’s a maze, it’s a Minotaur, it’s a metaphor, it’s… ‘boycow’

Marke B. -
At Counterpulse, two dancers charge a labyrinthian trope—each in their own way, simultaneously (milk buckets included)
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Performative politics

Charles Lewis III -
SF Ballet's 'Van Manen' renders the art form accessible and Izzard crunches 'Hamlet,' while 'the boiling' offers a magnetic pandemic tale.
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Onstage

Community re-telling of Compton’s Cafeteria riot storms Tenderloin stage

Joshua Rotter -
Co-written by neighborhood's trans leaders, play's meaning expands far past single night.
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