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Stage Review

Drama Masks: No time to be nice

'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’

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

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

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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Comedy

From Kennedy Center to Berkeley Rep, W. Kamau Bell still rides ‘that curiosity thing’

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'Going in there to be myself and make my positions clear is my way of protesting,' says the comedian on 'Who's With Me?' tour
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Drama Masks: ‘Two Trains Running’ is an electrifying triumph

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August Wilson's dialog drives an epic critique of Black capitalism at ACT. Plus: Hilarious heathens of Killing My Lobster go all in for sin.
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After a shattering loss, Alvin Ailey danced to revelatory heights at Zellerbach

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The company's 57th annual Berkeley run was dedicated to legendary dancer-director Judith Jamison, and polished off some true gems.
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Drama Masks: Walking in circles

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

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SF Ballet's 'Van Manen' renders the art form accessible and Izzard crunches 'Hamlet,' while 'the boiling' offers a magnetic pandemic tale.
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Drama Masks: Hypnotic maritime flamenco, messages in a bottle

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Dance tells a yarn in 'Songs from a Sinking Ship.' Plus: How did the city's stages acknowledge Trans Day of Visibility?
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Drama Masks: Dreamlike delivery of prim-and-proper trans history in ‘I Am My Own Wife’

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

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Coleman Domingo's 'Wild With Happy' blends Black Baptist sensibility with Disneymania, 'Nobody Loves You' finds no quarrel here.
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Drama Masks: Drawing the line

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Opera Parallèle's 'The Pigeon Keeper' took on the costs of xenophobia, while Central Works' 'Push/Pull' tackles toxic masculinity.
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Drama Masks: ‘Uncle Vanya’ breathes new life; ‘Cuckoo Edible Magic’ gets stoned

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

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

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