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Onstage

Drama Masks: Could the tide be turning?

What Pandora's box really held. Plus: youthful (and not so youthful) hijinks in SF Opera's 'Parsifal' and 'Dada Teen Musical'
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Drama Masks: ‘Suffs’ brings the fervor, ‘Spanish Stew’ heats up old school SF

Plus: Fascinating 'Pilgrimage' follows four Muslim women on their Hajj to Mecca. A trio of new play reviews
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‘Hills of California’ aims to sing with real-life family harmony—and discord

Director Loretta Greco brings decades-hopping story of four sisters and their ambitious mother to Berkeley Rep.
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A ‘Tempest’ toss’d on Point Montara, in sandy Shakespeare show

Berkeley Shakespeare Company production offers sleepaway 'theater camp' experience—cliffs, waves, island spirits, and all.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: A gloriously naughty ‘Rocky Horror,’ just when we need it

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D'Arcy Drollinger and cast go over the top—yes, it's possible—with the beloved 50-year-old musical at Oasis.
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Drama Masks: ‘Hot Wing King’ pours on subversive tang

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Plus: At Terror Vault's 'Hexed,' search for the magic crystal to fight the Coven of Three in the Himalayas!
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Drama Masks: ‘Kim’s Convenience’ bags the laughs with intriguing drama

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Ins Choi’s sitcom-adjacent play at ACT tells the story of a Canadian shopkeeper's family facing the future.
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Onstage

Fall into theater: 11 shows to catch this season

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From Arthurian opera and deportation reenactment to D.I.R.T. Fest and 'Spanish Stew'—our critic's picks for best stage bets.
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Dance

Spirit of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot soars again in new Flyaway work

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Inspired by 1966 LGBTQ uprising in the Tenderloin, 'Down on the Corner' showcases local talent and legacy of resistance.
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Drama Masks: SF Opera and Shotgun Players ask, What price life?

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'Dead Man Walking' and 'The Motion' investigate the value we place on existence, in very different ways.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Z Space

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A blessedly versatile former can factory has become a well-established gem of a stage complex—and party place.
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Drama Masks: At Z Space, a flashback to the day that was much too much

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'The Day the Sky Turned Orange,' plus 'The Reservoir''s ensemble work, and femmes rise in 'Indecent.'
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Drama Masks: Latest Neo-Futurists’ sandy pastiche performance invites all to dig in

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'HOLE' sees your angst—and counsels excavation.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Compton’s Cafeteria Riot

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The city thought it would never see itself done right onstage after 'Beach Blanket Babylon.' Then this long-running show came along.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Kina Kantor

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Extolling the virtues of an in-demand theater talent, from turns in Berkeley Rep's 'Uncle Vanya' to Bindlestiff's 'The Love Edition.'
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Killing My Lobster takes a bow with one last (for now) nerdy number

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The company may be folding, but not without sending a reminder of why it's been so beloved with 'Legends & Laughter.'
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Best of the Bay

VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

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Our 51st installment of the Bay Area classic is 'new and improved' for 2025—and still full of local love.
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Onstage

For dark times, comedian Nori Reed believes in the joy of jokes

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Bay Area stand-up wrote the Disney Channel's first live-action trans character, rejects reductive approaches to identity.
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Dance

Drama Masks: We’re going to be OK, dammit

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Joe Goode's 'Are You Okay?' tells terribly sad tales, yet wisely refuses to give into nihilism.
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