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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Killing My Lobster takes a bow with one last (for now) nerdy number

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

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

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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Drama Masks: ‘Parade’ and its mob justice feel too close for comfort

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Harold Prince's tale of a hapless Brooklyn Jew in Georgia pulls the thread of prejudice left to fester.
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Drama Masks: Who is to blame for that?

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'To My Girls' strips away a Millennial's gay-tastic getaway, while 'Yellow Face' dives into thorny racial casting itself.
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Drama Masks: Aurora Theatre suspends season—after putting on a hell of a show

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'Crumbs from the Table of Joy' delivers, as does Berkeley Rep's 'the aves' and 'Compton's Cafeteria Riot.'
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Drama Masks: All ABBA the myths of stage critics

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'Mamma Mia!' does its crowd-pleasing thing, while 'Ironbound' goes deep with carefully textured take on houselessness.
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Drama Masks: The fight is just beginning

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SF Mime Troupe needs our help. Plus: 'Simple Mexican Pleasures,' 'The Last of the Love Letters,' 'Shameless Hussy' reviewed.
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