The unstoppable ‘Who’s Your Mami Comedy’ Zooms your way
The pandemic may have indefinitely shuttered comedy clubs, but it can’t stop, won’t stop the irrepressible force of Marga Gomez. For as long as misogyny, racism, homophobia, and transphobia...
Searing, prescient, hilarious: ‘Laughter Against the Machine’ returns onscreen
Travel back with me to a distant time when the economy had collapsed, the country was visibly divided, protesters took over the streets, a border wall was being built,...
Take that, 2020: The Mime Troupe pivots to web
It’s a rough time for live theater. As San Francisco arts organizations brainstorm ways to carry their message into the COVID era, some of the city’s most veteran radical...
In ‘The Niceties,’ deep-rooted academic bias vividly on display
In The Niceties, playing online from Shotgun Theater, a Black student, Zoe (Regina Monique) at an unnamed elite Northeast university (clearly Yale given it’s in Connecticut) visits her white...
Too soon for COVID jokes? Shazia Mirza on Zoom comedy and life at home
Shazia Mirza has been making the most of quarantine. The award-winning British stand-up comedian and writer—best known for her show “The Kardashians Made Me Do It,” satirizing the real-life...
Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’
Last year, the Tenderloin Museum hosted 22 sold-out performances of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. One of the writers, Donna Personna, saw about half of them, and she says she...
A 420 treat from ‘Sheesh & Schlong’
Some parks may have been crowded in San Francisco this weekend—but it wasn't with festive stoners celebrating 420. They're finding other ways to celebrate on this high holiday. (Instead, it...
Hunky Jesus rises again! (Blessedly online)
UPDATE: It looks like they are going to be releasing the photos and videos starting at 1pm at www.twitch.tv/sfqueernightlifefund and you can vote at www.instagram.com/sfsisters then.
One of the best things to...
Review: ‘Toni Stone’ hits a home run (and you can watch it on your couch)
Editor's Note: In the wake of its theaters shutting down, ACT is streaming its plays Gloria (reviewed here) and Toni Stone, reviewed below on opening night by Elaine. To...
In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets
When Wilma Bonet first read Ricardo Pérez González's script for the play Don’t Eat the Mangos (through March 22 at Magic Theatre), she liked it right away.
“First of all, it’s a story...
