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Onstage

Drama Masks: A message of trans power delivered with operatic oomph

As SF Opera aims to cut its workers' pay, Opera Parallèle celebrated resistance with 'Revolution is Just the Beginning.'
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Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Theatre Bay Area

50-year-old arts org helps the local show scene survive and stay accessible—especially with Bay Area Theatre Week.
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Drama Masks: A drag disaster to die for

Farewell, Dolly Parton. And hello 'Disastrous!'—D'Arcy Drollinger's latest uproarious sendup of '70s genre flicks.
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Drama Masks: A sensitive Julius Caesar, lost in the ’70s shuffle

Marin Shakes' bold, beautiful, but muddled adaptation humanizes a tyrant at the expense of message or meaning.
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Onstage

Monét X Change: retired party girl, current comedy queen

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'Drag Race' and 'Traitors' star brings two nights of coming-of-age cracks to Cobb's.
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Drama Masks: A play every Silicon Valley acolyte should be forced to watch

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La Lengua's shockingly current latest. Plus: Tennessee Williams' 'Orpheus Descending' gets a curious switch-up.
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Drama Masks: Forget AI, you’re in ‘Urinetown’ now

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Ray of Light's latest triumph is awash with talent. Plus: 'In a Memory Palace' at Z Space used Noh to haunting effect.
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Dance

Aerial Arts Fest flies high on a shoestring and a dream

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Losing NEA funding and artists' reluctance to visit the US can't keep Zaccho's vertical dance celebration down.
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Drama Masks: Olivia Bratko is here to let you know that you’re not crazy

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Performer's latest solo show at the Rhino throws everything you can imagine into a wild and funny hour of catharsis.
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Dance

ODC Summer Sampler’s ‘Notes of Disquiet’ fueled by invisible burdens, Armenian poetry

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Mia J. Chong's latest work explores 'that feeling of having to hold in your response to someone else's insensitivity.'
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Drama Masks: Drag haven Oasis reopens with a bang—and some questions

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Plus: 'Beauty and the Beast' is a tale as old as time, and 'The Prince, Part 1' sets wily classic in motion.
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Performance

Live Shots: Circus Bella’s free park romp stokes ‘AH HA!’ moments

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Wee ones enraptured by local troupe mused whether their futures lie under the Big Top.
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Live Shots: ‘Bohémienne’ glows with ribald glamour of Parisian cabaret

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Enter the Montmartre underground at Palace Theater, with Le Mime, Le Titan, Pierrot, La Chanteuse, and more
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Drama Masks: Who ya gonna call? ‘Scabmuggers’

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As job-stealing AI creeps onto the local theater scene, Yvonne Martinez's new play dives into labor politics.
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Dance

Dance feeds the soul—and body—in Julia Adam’s gourmet ‘Lunae’

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For two weekends in Petaluma, dance mavens can taste an al fresco connection between farmed land and celestial bodies.
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Drama Masks: SF Mime Troupe marches forth through country’s ‘Wreckage’

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Religious prurience meets the surveillance state in company's latest free show. Happy Birthday, America!
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Drama Masks: Send in the clowns, they’re already here

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Circus Bella sticks to thrilling formula while adding new tricks, making a statement without flipping into politics.
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Drama Masks: A Golden Thread wending from war to Bard

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Very queer 'As You Like It,' taut and intimate 'Arab Spring,' and protest-minded 'I C U (I See You)' all had one thing in common.
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Drama Masks: Love will literally tear us apart

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Greek classics 'Bacchae' from Bard Theatre and 'Elektra' at SF Opera prove bloody and loud. Plus: Gay Men's Chorus did Dolly.
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