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Stage Review

SF Opera’s ‘The Elixir of Love’ presents case for resuscitating problematic ‘classics’

Charles Lewis III -
'Nice guy' trope and love drugs aside, are you drinking the potion?
Onstage

Lorraine Hansberry Theatre stages Black women’s healing with joyful jeté

Lou Fancher -
Artistic director Margo Hall celebrates company's mentorship opportunities and high-spirited holiday production 'Soulful Christmas.'
Onstage

Coco Peru dons Heklina’s tunic (metaphorically) for ‘Golden Girls: Christmas Episodes’

Joshua Rotter -
'I felt like Bea Arthur was pushing me on my shoulder and saying, 'Do it,'' says drag star of beloved show.
Stage Review

How to get a ‘Hedwig’ in queer theater

Charles Lewis III -
20 years in, the transgender rock chanteuse from East Germany inspires and provokes at Shotgun.
Onstage

Live Shots: What the Great Dickens? The Victorian Christmas Fair returns

Jon Bauer and Patty Riek -
Sip some mead, tie a knot, boot the cat, taste a banger, and get down with Fezziwig at the 39th annual immersive holiday affair
Stage Review

‘Bulrusher’: A California story that wades into fetid weeds

Charles Lewis III -
Eisa Davis' 2007 Pulitzer nominee at Berkeley Rep is engrossing, until it succumbs to colorism and misogynoir.
Stage Review

Do you feel what I feel? ‘Into the Dark’ plunges audience into the sensorial

Nicole Gluckstern -
Jess Curtis/Gravity's latest for Blind, Low Vision, and Sighted physical performers immerses viewers in limitations and possibilities
Stage Review

‘Omar’ is pretty to look at, but opera treats slavery with kid gloves

Charles Lewis III -
New work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels traces the tempestuous life of enslaved African scholar Omar ibn Said.
Onstage

What’s up, THEYFRIEND? Dive into the fierce nonbinary performance festival

Joshua Rotter -
Co-host LOTUS BOY fills us in on third annual International showcase for nonbinary artists.
Stage Review

‘The Engine of Our Disruption’: Rev up the tech industry satire

Charles Lewis III -
Patricia Milton's swing at our overlords, playing at Central Works, works best when things get personal.

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