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Holcombe Waller’s timely queer ‘Requiem’ for persecuted LGBTQs

Marke B. -
ONSTAGE Holcombe Waller does "total theater." The Portland artist-composer approaches music in terms of ritual, history, art, movement, and conceptual ideas, creating a spectacle...
Onstage

In ‘Pike St.,’ embodying a caring community in crisis mode

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Playwright and performer Nilaja Sun thinks maybe one day someone will do research into solo shows and shamanism. “How is it possible for one body...
Onstage

No men, no boats, no problem: ACT’s ‘Men on Boats’ is wild ride

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE The first thing you notice about Men on Boats at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater (through December 16) is that there are no men and there are...
Onstage

Sisters tell stories of undocumented Filipina caregivers in ‘Chasing Papeles’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE For her masters’ thesis in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, Aureen Almario wrote about the stories of undocumented people. Telling those...
Onstage

A timely, unrelenting family drama unfolds at Magic Theatre

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE When Annie (Martha Brigham) opens the front door of her family home at the beginning of Magic Theatre's "The Resting Place" (through November 4),...
Dance

Post-human radical inclusivity, center-stage in ‘Beyond Gravity’

Emily Wilson -
DANCE Choreographer Jess Curtis grew up in Chico and studied dance and English at Cal State there. Then he came to San Francisco, which changed...
Onstage

From uproarious meme to poignant play (with salad)

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Sheila Callaghan appreciates a good meme. Several friends, knowing this, sent her the notorious one of "Women Laughing Alone with Salad,” after the blog...
Onstage

Pucks to plays: Former hockey pro brings drama to Magic Theatre

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Ashlin Halfnight sees a lot of parallels between his former career as a professional hockey player and his current one as a playwright.  “It seems...
Onstage

Chekhov, with some curveballs, in Cutting Ball’s ‘Uncle Vanya’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE George Saulnier plays the title role in Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which opens the Cutting Ball Theater’s 20th anniversary season (through October 21). Saulnier...
Onstage

ACT’s ‘Sweat’ asks: When does class solidarity end and racism begin?

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE  The tavern setting is a familiar trope for American theater and television—think Langston Hughes’ Simple series, Casablanca, The Iceman Cometh, or Friends. It offers both an intimate...

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