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The Civil War, from another side, in ‘Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2, and 3’

ONSTAGE A historical epic, a taut thriller, a chamber melodrama, a heart-warming comedy, a social scalding: Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrings a lot from her...

A giddy Go-Go’s time warp in “Head Over Heels”

ONSTAGE It's real cute, the good kind of cute. Head Over Heels (through May 6 at the Curran Theatre), the "posh meets punk" Elizabethan...

Sean Dorsey Dance’s ‘Boys in Trouble’ unpacks toxic masculinity

DANCE  Alt-right, #metoo, the Trump administration: Toxic masculinity and its effects are all the rage. We live in a culture that only allows (and rewards)...

Review: ‘Disruption’ offers timely #metoo twist on tech scandals

ONSTAGE Since the #MeToo movement burst on the scene, it has illuminated the epidemic of sexual harassment that has long afflicted women in all...

‘How To Be a White Man’ explores power and identity with a comic touch

ONSTAGE Growing up in rural Louisiana, queer black comedian and social worker Luna Malbroux was pretty familiar with assumptions people might make about her....

Flipping the script on a tragic war’s fallout in ‘Vietgone’

ONSTAGE "You lost a brother, I lost my family. You lost a brother, I lost my whole country… I lost everything I had." With this...

A school mass shooting inspires a new play at Berkeley Rep

ONSTAGE After the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, playwright Julia Cho (Aubergine, The Language Archive) was looking for something that would help her understand...

‘Born Yesterday’—but a 70-year-old play splendidly comments on today

ONSTAGE "It’s amazing how pertinent this feels," a man in front of me at the SF Playhouse told his friend at the end of...

Renowned dance company taps street musicians for ‘Bootstrap Tales’

DANCE Dancer and choreographer Robert Moses says he’s inherently optimistic and likes a challenge. So he decided his renowned company, Robert Moses’ Kin, would...

The tale of an enduring marriage, sound effects included, in ‘Reel to Reel’

ONSTAGE If hearing about an intimate drama with two couples—one youthful, one aging—trying to figure out their relationships automatically conjures up "Who’s Afraid of...

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