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Stage Review

Billy Crudup lands the grift in Berkeley Rep’s ‘Harry Clarke’

Charles Lewis III -
Solo show is funny, well-produced, stars an award-winning actor—does that explain its wild popularity?
Dance

Historical photos of queer relationships inspire tender moves of RAWdance’s ‘LOVING STILL’

Joshua Rotter -
"Romance has been as much a part of our history as struggle," reminds company co-founder Wendy Rein.
Stage Review

Big Brotherly love? Finally, a Bay Area premiere for Michael Gene Sullivan’s ‘1984’

Charles Lewis III -
(Un)fortunately, this adaptation of Orville's famed surveillance story is evergreen.
Performance

Việt Lê embodies the divine of ‘MOTHER | GODDESS’ with Southeast Asian ‘spiritual drag’

Joshua Rotter -
Drawing on ceremony practiced in one of the oldest Indigenous Vietnamese religions, event looks to support audience's own intuition.
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.

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