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US Artists Fellowship brings trans choreographer Sean Dorsey ‘ability to provide for my future’

Lou Fancher -
$50K award comes at a time when the groundbreaking dancemaker is expanding his own voice.
Stage Review

Shaking off the ghost of Babs in ‘Funny Girl’

Dennis Harvey -
Katerina McCrimmon makes the songs her own, justifying this revival of a musical that was creaky from the start.
Onstage

That’s a ‘Bitch Slap!’ D’Arcy Drollinger’s top 5 over-the-top TV moments

Marke B. -
Her Oasis drag show lampoons the catfights and hysterics of nighttime soaps—and it's rooted in deep genre love.
Stage Review

‘A Strange Loop’ takes too much glee in the trauma of its Black queer lead

Charles Lewis III -
Despite talented cast, catchy tunes, and a show-stopping number, Broadway sensation comes off as torture porn.
Onstage

Unmasking a modern predator through dance in ‘The Soul Catcher’

Joshua Rotter -
Annika B. Lewis and Kassandra Production dissect a violent relationship at SF International Arts Fest
Onstage

‘¡Golondrina!’ flies on the wings of Latinx California music history

Lou Fancher -
Liliana Herrera's 'funkloric' play at Brava views migration, and its criminalization, through a sonic kaleidoscope.
Stage Review

In ‘Forever Plaid,’ a bit of light entertainment in the afterlife

Charles Lewis III -
A dead classic pop quartet has the pipes, if not the complex backstory, in 42nd Moon's family-friendly production.
Onstage

Nothing’s gonna rain on ‘Funny Girl’ Katerina McCrimmon’s SF parade

Joshua Rotter -
“I've always been fighting to make it this far," says the dynamo Fanny Brice with Miami roots and plenty of chutzpah.
Onstage

After ‘painful’ preparation, ‘Blue Door’ opens onto Black men’s complex life in US

Lou Fancher -
Director Darryl V. Jones on creating the soundtrack of generational haunting at Aurora Theatre Company.
Stage Review

Unbearable tension of ghosts past and present in ‘Returning to Haifa’

Charles Lewis III -
Palestinians come back home in the shadow of the Six-Day War, in Golden Thread's latest on Potrero Stage.

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