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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.
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.
Stage Review

Drama Masks: Hypnotic maritime flamenco, messages in a bottle

Charles Lewis III -
Dance tells a yarn in 'Songs from a Sinking Ship.' Plus: How did the city's stages acknowledge Trans Visibility Day?
Art

Queer American Songbook to Ukrainian trans theater, SF International Arts Festival won’t play it straight

Caitlin Donohue -
Venerable fest doubles down at unlikely, if urgent moment for convening global LGBTQ+ creatives.
Stage Review

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

Charles Lewis III -
Plus: SF Ballet's 'Frankenstein' was a Gothic, if not great, delight and Killing My Lobster's new 'fun run' rips and roars.
Dance

Resurrecting ‘Frankenstein,’ after its creator’s tragic death

Aimée Ts'ao -
Liam Scarlett's intricate gothic epic returns to SF Ballet, with principals determined to preserve its 'warmth and heart.'
Stage Review

Drama Masks: Fear not the fan

Charles Lewis III -
Coleman Domingo's 'Wild With Happy' blends Black Baptist sensibility with Disneymania, 'Nobody Loves You' finds no quarrel here.
Onstage

‘March Madness’: Punking up opera with Nikola Printz

Marke B. -
Mezzo-soprano channels diva chaos, mosh pits, classic cabaret, aerial acrobatics into sensational spectacle at Chan Center.
Stage Review

Drama Masks: Drawing the line

Charles Lewis III -
Opera Parallèle's 'The Pigeon Keeper' took on the costs of xenophobia, while Central Works' 'Push/Pull' tackles toxic masculinity.
Performance

Drama Masks: When illness derails the performance

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

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