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The sheer audacity of ‘Angels in America’

Marke B. -
ONSTAGE "Why is Angels in America still the most prominent story being told about AIDS?" asked a wonderfully provocative essay about the epic early '90s...
Onstage

Comedian Gina Yashere rides the ‘up’ elevator to stardom

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Growing up in London, Gina Yashere never considered a career in comedy. She came from an academic family, and her mother had specific careers...
Onstage

Seeing Red: SF Mime Troupe is making it a socialist summer

Caitlin Donohue -
ONSTAGE As someone who grew up watching San Francisco Mime Troupe productions, I can tell you that there is a right and true way...
Onstage

Hattie McDaniel’s pioneering, tumultuous life—in song

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE What most people know about Hattie McDaniel is that she was the first African American woman to win an Oscar, for her outstanding performance...
Dance

Pride gets Xtra with vogue legend grand marshalls Luis and Jose Xtravaganza

Marke B. -
PRIDE "One of the reasons vogue is coming into vogue again," legendary practitioner of the venerated black, queer dance form Luis Extravaganza tells me over...
Onstage

Blasting off from the Catskills in ACT’s ‘A Walk on the Moon’

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE There should be more tummlers.    A Walk on the Moon (at ACT through July 1), brings you right into the world of Jewish summer...
Onstage

Swimming through teen girls’ intense friendship in ‘Dry Land’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Grace Ng played Wilhelm, the lead, in the Shotgun Player’s recent production of The Black Rider. So when the theater held auditions for...
Onstage

Stephen Spinella: Playing Trump and Reagan’s lawyer in ‘Angels in America’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Twenty-five years ago, Stephen Spinella won two Tonys playing main character Prior Walter in the Broadway debut of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on...
Onstage

Heaven’s Gate reverberates in mystical coming-of-age tale ‘Barn Owl’

Marke B. -
ONSTAGE Playwright and actor Evan Johnson's drag queen alter ego, Martha T. Lipton the Failed Actress, is one of the most delightfully surreal performers in...
Dance

Keith Hennessy’s fiercely political, achingly intimate ‘Crotch’ and ‘Sink’

Marke B. -
DANCE/PERFORMANCE A pagan drag queen Green Man, sporting a maypole-ribbon corset and tiny Speedo, hopping about madly on stilts? A ferocious clown satire of the...

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