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Drama Masks

Drama Masks: No time to be nice

'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’

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

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

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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Drama Masks: ‘Uncle Vanya’ breathes new life; ‘Cuckoo Edible Magic’ gets stoned

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Chekhov gets a fresh and electrifying update at Berkeley Rep, while SFBATCO delivers an anime-inspired sentient rice cooker battle.
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Drama Masks: Time can work against us all

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'Back to the Future: The Musical,' 'The Heart Sellers' at Aurora, SF Ballet's 'Cool Britannia,' and 'Froggy' at Center Rep, reviewed.
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Performance

Drama Masks: When public transit woes make you miss the show

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BART and Muni cuts—not to mention the threat the new regime poses to local arts—will most certainly sever theatre lifelines.
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Art

Drama Masks: Voices of incarcerated women take center stage at YBCA

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Art exhibit 'The Only Door I Can Open' and Flyaway Productions' 'I Give You My Sorrows' speak out for prisoners' rights.
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Drama Masks: Two nights at the Ballet, one hot and one cold

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Weathering scoffs and tiffs at SF Ballet's Opening Night extravaganza, soaking in the provocative joys of 'Manon'
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Drama Masks: Getting ready for the backwards slide

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As the government and major corporations ax DEI initiatives with abandon, will local theatre soon follow suit?
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Drama Masks: 2025 kicks off with trans visibility center-stage

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Glamorous 'Some Like It Hot' dances up historical inclusion; 'Dragcula' foregrounds the ultimate weapon: joy.
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