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Drama Masks

Drama Masks: A ping-ponging in the mind—and a tennis match of wits

Candace Johnson's 'Scat-ter Brain: The Music of ADHD' and Golden Thread's 'The Return,' reviewed.
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Drama Masks: Chasing ghosts of SF past in ‘Night Driver’

At The Marsh-SF, Pearl Ong recalls leaving Hong Kong in the 1970s, driving a cab, and discovering her lesbian self.
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Drama Masks: We just lost Jerry again

Local theater scene suffers another setback—but it's not Dead. Plus: Pushing a real estate scam too far at the Marsh.
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Drama Masks: Still searching for those signs of intelligent life…

Marga Gomez does a classic her way. Plus: 'Magnolia Ballet' gets so much right about Black toxic masculinity.
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Drama Masks: ‘Les Blancs’ is one of the best shows of the year

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Oakland Theater Project brings the heat. Plus: Queer dinosaurs run amok with the double entendres in 'Jurassiq Parq.'
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Drama Masks: Despite cutbacks, SF Mime Troupe’s ‘Disruption’ hits home

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Poignant 66th season show takes on Ice detentions, apolitical hypocrisy, and a 'Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Fire Department'
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Drama Masks: In ‘Aztlán,’ gripped by intense forces beyond control

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Magic Theatre melds carceral to mystical. Plus: Enthralling 'The Last Goat' presents Ancient Greek tale that does much with little.
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Drama Masks: No time to be nice

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'La Bohème' proves its supremacy in welcoming newcomers to opera's bombast, 'Co-founders' tries to play it both ways.
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Drama Masks: Sex-positive seniors provide welcome relief in ‘Happy Pleasant Valley’

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Plus: Sasha Velour's homophobe-enraging spectacular and Neil Diamond's Broadway homage.
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Drama Masks: Gotta give ’em hope

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Stars of 'Harvey Milk Imagined' shine amid take too tragic for Pride month, 'Pacific Overtures' tries to resuscitate a challenging Sondheim.
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Drama Masks: ‘Parade’ and its mob justice feel too close for comfort

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Harold Prince's tale of a hapless Brooklyn Jew in Georgia pulls the thread of prejudice left to fester.
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Drama Masks: The fight is just beginning

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SF Mime Troupe needs our help. Plus: 'Simple Mexican Pleasures,' 'The Last of the Love Letters,' 'Shameless Hussy' reviewed.
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Drama Masks: ‘Two Trains Running’ is an electrifying triumph

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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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Drama Masks: Walking in circles

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Shocking banality of evil in 'Here There Are Blueberries' and an Armenian cry against injustice, with puppets, in 'Azad.'
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Drama Masks: Performative politics

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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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Drama Masks: Dreamlike delivery of prim-and-proper trans history in ‘I Am My Own Wife’

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Plus: SF Ballet's 'Frankenstein' was a Gothic, if not great, delight and Killing My Lobster's new 'fun run' rips and roars.
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Drama Masks: Fear not the fan

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Coleman Domingo's 'Wild With Happy' blends Black Baptist sensibility with Disneymania, 'Nobody Loves You' finds no quarrel here.
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Drama Masks: Drawing the line

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Opera Parallèle's 'The Pigeon Keeper' took on the costs of xenophobia, while Central Works' 'Push/Pull' tackles toxic masculinity.
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Drama Masks: When illness derails the performance

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As flu and COVID cases rise (many of them deadly), how will the local theater scene adjust its communal experience?
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