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PerformanceStage Review

Stage Review

Drama Masks: Walking in circles

Shocking banality of evil in 'Here There Are Blueberries' and an Armenian cry against injustice, with puppets, in 'Azad.'

Drama Masks: Performative politics

SF Ballet's 'Van Manen' renders the art form accessible and Izzard crunches 'Hamlet,' while 'the boiling' offers a magnetic pandemic tale.

Drama Masks: Hypnotic maritime flamenco, messages in a bottle

Dance tells a yarn in 'Songs from a Sinking Ship.' Plus: How did the city's stages acknowledge Trans Visibility Day?

Drama Masks: Dreamlike delivery of prim-and-proper trans history in ‘I Am My Own Wife’

Plus: SF Ballet's 'Frankenstein' was a Gothic, if not great, delight and Killing My Lobster's new 'fun run' rips and roars.

Drama Masks: Fear not the fan

Coleman Domingo's 'Wild With Happy' blends Black Baptist sensibility with Disneymania, 'Nobody Loves You' finds no quarrel here.

Drama Masks: Drawing the line

Opera Parallèle's 'The Pigeon Keeper' took on the costs of xenophobia, while Central Works' 'Push/Pull' tackles toxic masculinity.

Drama Masks: ‘Uncle Vanya’ breathes new life; ‘Cuckoo Edible Magic’ gets stoned

Chekhov gets a fresh and electrifying update at Berkeley Rep, while SFBATCO delivers an anime-inspired sentient rice cooker battle.

60 years in, Twyla Tharp’s legendary company still shone like a diamond

'I can still push': 84-year-old choreographer's Cal Performances jubilee program glittered with Glass and Beethoven.

Drama Masks: Time can work against us all

This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask. I...

Drama Masks: Voices of incarcerated women take center stage at YBCA

Art exhibit 'The Only Door I Can Open' and Flyaway Productions' 'I Give You My Sorrows' speak out for prisoners' rights.

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