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SF Ballet’s ‘Don Quixote’ provides a home away from home for Sardinian star

Emily Wilson -
The ballet of Don Quixote, the San Francisco Ballet season opener, doesn’t tell the whole tale of the man who read too many novels, decided he...
Onstage

Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is a musical triumph, hashtags and all

Marke B. -
ONSTAGE I admit I raced to see Dear Evan Hansen (through December 30 at the Curran) out of spite. Not to mock the smash-hit Grammy/Tony-winning...
Onstage

Austen, downstairs, in ‘The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberly’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE When asked if he read novels, the philosopher Gilbert Ryle said, “Oh yes. All six, every year.” Ryle was talking about the work of Jane...
Onstage

As a queer POC, El Beh finds joy in playing ‘Mary Poppins’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE El Beh, who plays the title role in San Francisco Playhouse’s Mary Poppins (through January 12), never would have thought to play the no-nonsense nanny...
Onstage

A rush of that ol’ razzle dazzle in ‘Crazy For You’

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE Remember “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “I Got Rhythm,” “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” and “Embraceable You”? Can you hear these Gershwin tunes...
Onstage

‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ as a holiday opera, bumbling angel and all

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer have not shied away from big topics,  San Francisco Opera dramaturg Kip Cranna, pointed out. Heggie worked...
Onstage

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...

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