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Performance

Drama Masks: Aurora Theatre tiptoes back onstage after closure

... but another East Bay institution bids adieu. Plus: SF Opera's 'The Barber of Seville' lands the slapstick, needs more 'Figaro.'
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Surely, they must still be joking: ‘Airplane! Live’ lands classic 1980 movie’s gags

'The more serious we were, the more the comedy worked,' says star Robert Hays, coming to SF with co-star Julie Hagerty.
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Live Shots: Fou Fou Ha!’s erotic clownery reminded us that pleasure is resistance

With 'The Nectar' at Palace Theater, the longtime sexy burlesque troupe offered a voluptuous answer to oppression.
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Drama Masks: Berkeley Rep’s ‘The Lunchbox’ is a delicious charmer

Plus: 'Phantom of the Opera' descends on a new haunt, and 'Becoming a Man' faces transition head on.
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Dance

‘Memento Forest’ trembles with communal healing after deep loss

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Choreographer Marina Fukushima brings ritual, talismans that bore her up after father's death to Theatre of Yugen.
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Onstage

Drama Masks: Living beyond the shadow of a ‘Doubt’

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Anticipating Opera Parallèle’s latest—as the Pope rails against AI. Plus: SF Opera's upcoming streams, and a new SF Symphony leader.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Taking an inch… and finishing the hat

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'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' at NCTC cranks things up and down. Plus: The colorful drama of SFMOMA's 'Woman in a hat'
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Comedy

Comedy pioneers BATS Improv turn 40, with more wild flights of storytelling

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'The excitement of improvisation was palpable, and the joy of being onstage together was addictive,' co-founder says of early years.
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Drama Masks: Staged in a senior community center, this tale left a lasting sting

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'Lay My Burden Down' took up urgent concerns, with puppets. Plus: Alicia Keys' angelic 'Hell's Kitchen' hits familiar heights.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Get in, loser, we’re going to the theater

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Changes are afoot on local stages—and 'Mean Girls' run amok at Ray of Light. Plus: 'Orpheus' retold, via storefront psychic
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Dance

Behind ‘Angel Island Project,’ a powerhouse ensemble and dark history

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Oakland Ballet Company enlists seven choreographers, 'Monkey King' composer to relate tales of Asian immigrant imprisonment.
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Drama Masks: ‘Hamnet’ is gorgeous, but how was Shakespeare’s sausage made?

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Plus: 'Bloodlines' promises resistance, and SF Ballet's techno AI blockbuster 'Mere Mortals' returns, trailing cultural import.
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Dance

Beyond Butoh: inkBoat’s ‘Clouds from a Crumbling Giant’ reaches past genres

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At SF International Arts Fest, storied local dance company takes collaborative approach to crossing borders of life.
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Onstage

The world is large! 8 must-sees at SF International Arts Fest

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Korean tango, Canadian food prep cirque, improv hip-hop, deconstructed drag, a 'Lesbitarian Church,' more from border-erasing event.
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Joffrey Ballet plunged into bizarre and wondrous ‘Midsummer’s Night Dream’

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Gags, puns, allusions, and bodies flew as storied company literally made hay with beloved fantasia.
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Dance

Alleluia Panis traces a notoriously racist miscarriage of justice through dance

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In 1975, two Pilipina nurses were wrongly jailed for murder; choreographer's immersive 'Burden of Proof' imagines their story.
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Drama Masks: From another time of terror, ‘Burden of Proof’ urges to fight and fear not

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Alleluia Panis' latest dance follows a Pilipina nurse snatched off the streets and wrongly incarcerated.
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Dance

Trans trailblazer Sean Dorsey: ‘When shit gets hard, we choose to show up for each other’

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His legendary dance company's 22nd annual home season offers 'a balm for this moment in America.'
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