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Stage Review

Drama Masks: The fight is just beginning

Charles Lewis III -
SF Mime Troupe needs our help. Plus: 'Simple Mexican Pleasures,' 'The Last of the Love Letters,' 'Shameless Hussy' reviewed.
Onstage

An interstellar drag quest to save the galaxy (and you call the shots)

Marke B. -
Media Meltdown's 'Select Thine Own Journey... in Space!' melds love of Dungeons & Dragons, '90s YA lit, and campy cosmic flicks.
Onstage

From a Pedro Pascal prompt, ‘The Last of the Love Letters’

Emily Wilson -
Ngozi Anyanwu's play at Z Below was written in a fervor after the actor prodded her with a playbill and a lack of 'insane' roles.
Stage Review

Drama Masks: ‘Two Trains Running’ is an electrifying triumph

Charles Lewis III -
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.
Dance

A Smuin season shaped by DJ playlists, sexy sculpture, drag queen fame

Aimée Ts'ao -
The SF company returns, enlisting the talents of Auguste Rodin, the Partridge Family, Queen, and Lady Camden.
Onstage

Don’t box Isaac Mizrahi in—or turn off his mic

Joshua Rotter -
The fashion icon steps into his most courageous project yet, bringing his jazzy 'Life is a Cabaret' show to the stage.
Stage Review

Drama Masks: Walking in circles

Charles Lewis III -
Shocking banality of evil in 'Here There Are Blueberries' and an Armenian cry against injustice, with puppets, in 'Azad.'
Dance

It’s a maze, it’s a Minotaur, it’s a metaphor, it’s… ‘boycow’

Marke B. -
At Counterpulse, two dancers charge a labyrinthian trope—each in their own way, simultaneously (milk buckets included).
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.

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