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Sean Dorsey Dance continues to shatter boundaries, 15 years on

Marke B. -
DANCE "I'm still pinching myself at this 15th anniversary milestone!" says Sean Dorsey, whose groundbreaking dance company celebrates a decade and a half this...
Onstage

In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE When Dipika Guha got her Bachelor’s degree in English from University College London, she wasn’t thinking of being a playwright. She’d just moved with...
Onstage

Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE A young woman frantically shouts into a graffiti-scrawled pay phone in a shabby airline terminal. She clutches a green handbag and tries to keep...
Onstage

Review: ‘Fiorello!’ sets the LaGuardia legend to rousing music

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE For those unfamiliar with Fiorello LaGuardia, the friend-of-the-working class Republican who fought Tammany Hall to become the 99th Mayor of New York City, the...
Onstage

Review: The gleaming, steaming ‘Hamilton’ machine

Marke B. -
ONSTAGE OK, Thomas Jefferson as Slick Rick got me. Dazzlingly embodied by actor Simon Longnight in the latest touring production of Hamilton to hit SF (through...
Arts + Culture

Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Here’s something you may not know: There’s a 60-year-old musical about Fiorello La Guardia, who went from being a lawyer to a congressman to...
Arts + Culture

Cross-bay institution Black Choreographers Festival celebrates its first 15 years

Caitlin Donohue -
“A courageous/ambitious idea,” is how co-founder Laura Ellis characterizes the birth of her and fellow choreographer Kendra Barnes’ enduring yearly event, the Black Choreographers...
Onstage

Detailing the splashy brilliance of Berkeley Rep’s ‘Metamorphoses’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE When actor Benjamin Ismail was in high school, he loved Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. "They're so primal and ancient...
Arts + Culture

Review: In ‘Seascape,’ a day at the beach—with giant lizards

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE Sparkling white sands spilling over the stage. Tufts of spindly sea grass. The sound of waves breaking gently in the distance, accompanied by...
Onstage

Review: A marvelous Chinatown ride in ‘King of the Yees’

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE In one intriguing scene in King of the Yees (at SF Playhouse through March 2), the Sichuan Face Changer (Jomar Tagatac) poses a...

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