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

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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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Kina Kantor

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

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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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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Arts + Culture

Comedy troupe Killing My Lobster suspends operations after 25 years

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Beloved sketch stalwarts to call it quits after next show due to NEA and other foundation cuts.
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Stage Review

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

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Candace Johnson's 'Scat-ter Brain: The Music of ADHD' and Golden Thread's 'The Return,' reviewed.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Chasing ghosts of SF past in ‘Night Driver’

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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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Thinking outside (and above and around) the gender box at Fringe Fest

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'Box [M]' uses circus arts and dance to tell the story of a Asian American father's relationship with his trans son.
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Dance

From polka to ‘Wicked,’ Deaf Dance Fest shows diversity of expression

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Artistic Director Antoine Hunter talks about bringing global Deaf experience and range to the dance scene.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: We just lost Jerry again

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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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Celebrating Black Hawaiians with songs of resilience and joy

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New music project and performance 'Pōpoloheno' shines a spotlight on some of the islands' overlooked history.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Still searching for those signs of intelligent life…

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Marga Gomez does a classic her way. Plus: 'Magnolia Ballet' gets so much right about Black toxic masculinity.
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Stage Review

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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Onstage

Dino drag? You bet ‘Jurassiq’ is

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Very queer musical parody stomps into Oasis with heels, wigs, claws, and plenty of nostalgic '90s hits.
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Stage Review

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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Onstage

In ‘Les Blancs,’ a once-silent character finds full voice through eight women players

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Actor Jeunée Simon on OTP's powerful version of Lorraine Hansberry's 1970 play, in which a Black man returns to Africa.
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