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Drama Masks: A gloriously naughty ‘Rocky Horror,’ just when we need it

D'Arcy Drollinger and cast go over the top—yes, it's possible—with the beloved 50-year-old musical at Oasis.
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Drama Masks: ‘Hot Wing King’ pours on subversive tang

Plus: At Terror Vault's 'Hexed,' search for the magic crystal to fight the Coven of Three in the Himalayas!
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Drama Masks: ‘Kim’s Convenience’ bags the laughs with intriguing drama

Ins Choi’s sitcom-adjacent play at ACT tells the story of a Canadian shopkeeper's family facing the future.
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Drama Masks: SF Opera and Shotgun Players ask, What price life?

'Dead Man Walking' and 'The Motion' investigate the value we place on existence, in very different ways.
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Drama Masks: At Z Space, a flashback to the day that was much too much

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'The Day the Sky Turned Orange,' plus 'The Reservoir''s ensemble work, and femmes rise in 'Indecent.'
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Drama Masks: Latest Neo-Futurists’ sandy pastiche performance invites all to dig in

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'HOLE' sees your angst—and counsels excavation.
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Drama Masks: Killing My Lobster takes a bow with one last (for now) nerdy number

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The company may be folding, but not without sending a reminder of why it's been so beloved with 'Legends & Laughter.'
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Drama Masks: We’re going to be OK, dammit

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Joe Goode's 'Are You Okay?' tells terribly sad tales, yet wisely refuses to give into nihilism.
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Drama Masks: A ping-ponging in the mind—and a tennis match of wits

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Candace Johnson's 'Scat-ter Brain: The Music of ADHD' and Golden Thread's 'The Return,' reviewed.
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Drama Masks: Chasing ghosts of SF past in ‘Night Driver’

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At The Marsh-SF, Pearl Ong recalls leaving Hong Kong in the 1970s, driving a cab, and discovering her lesbian self.
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Drama Masks: We just lost Jerry again

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Local theater scene suffers another setback—but it's not Dead. Plus: Pushing a real estate scam too far at the Marsh.
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Drama Masks: Still searching for those signs of intelligent life…

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Marga Gomez does a classic her way. Plus: 'Magnolia Ballet' gets so much right about Black toxic masculinity.
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Drama Masks: ‘Les Blancs’ is one of the best shows of the year

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Oakland Theater Project brings the heat. Plus: Queer dinosaurs run amok with the double entendres in 'Jurassiq Parq.'
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Drama Masks: Despite cutbacks, SF Mime Troupe’s ‘Disruption’ hits home

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Poignant 66th season show takes on Ice detentions, apolitical hypocrisy, and a 'Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Fire Department'
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Drama Masks: In ‘Aztlán,’ gripped by intense forces beyond control

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Magic Theatre melds carceral to mystical. Plus: Enthralling 'The Last Goat' presents Ancient Greek tale that does much with little.
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Drama Masks: Finding the comfort zone

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Queers do the classics in 'Coriolanus,' 'The Blackest Wrench' provides a Juneteenth safe space, more.
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Drama Masks: No time to be nice

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'La Bohème' proves its supremacy in welcoming newcomers to opera's bombast, 'Co-founders' tries to play it both ways.
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Drama Masks: Sex-positive seniors provide welcome relief in ‘Happy Pleasant Valley’

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Plus: Sasha Velour's homophobe-enraging spectacular and Neil Diamond's Broadway homage.
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Drama Masks: Gotta give ’em hope

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Stars of 'Harvey Milk Imagined' shine amid take too tragic for Pride month, 'Pacific Overtures' tries to resuscitate a challenging Sondheim.
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