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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Drag haven Oasis reopens with a bang—and some questions

Plus: 'Beauty and the Beast' is a tale as old as time, and 'The Prince, Part 1' sets wily classic in motion.
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Drama Masks: Who ya gonna call? ‘Scabmuggers’

As job-stealing AI creeps onto the local theater scene, Yvonne Martinez's new play dives into labor politics.
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Nodding to tech conformity, ‘Escapement’ charted how relationships transform us

Tether Dance Project's time-bending, high-energy, first full-length work showed promise of what's to come.
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Drama Masks: SF Mime Troupe marches forth through country’s ‘Wreckage’

Religious prurience meets the surveillance state in company's latest free show. Happy Birthday, America!
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Drama Masks: Send in the clowns, they’re already here

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Circus Bella sticks to thrilling formula while adding new tricks, making a statement without flipping into politics.
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Drama Masks: A Golden Thread wending from war to Bard

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Very queer 'As You Like It,' taut and intimate 'Arab Spring,' and protest-minded 'I C U (I See You)' all had one thing in common.
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Drama Masks: Love will literally tear us apart

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Greek classics 'Bacchae' from Bard Theatre and 'Elektra' at SF Opera prove bloody and loud. Plus: Gay Men's Chorus did Dolly.
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Drama Masks: Aurora Theatre tiptoes back onstage after closure

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... but another East Bay institution bids adieu. Plus: SF Opera's 'The Barber of Seville' lands the slapstick, needs more 'Figaro.'
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Onstage

Live Shots: Fou Fou Ha!’s erotic clownery reminded us that pleasure is resistance

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With 'The Nectar' at Palace Theater, the longtime sexy burlesque troupe offered a voluptuous answer to oppression.
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Drama Masks: Berkeley Rep’s ‘The Lunchbox’ is a delicious charmer

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Plus: 'Phantom of the Opera' descends on a new haunt, and 'Becoming a Man' faces transition head on.
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Drama Masks: Taking an inch… and finishing the hat

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'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' at NCTC cranks things up and down. Plus: The colorful drama of SFMOMA's 'Woman in a hat'
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Drama Masks: Staged in a senior community center, this tale left a lasting sting

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'Lay My Burden Down' took up urgent concerns, with puppets. Plus: Alicia Keys' angelic 'Hell's Kitchen' hits familiar heights.
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Drama Masks: Get in, loser, we’re going to the theater

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Changes are afoot on local stages—and 'Mean Girls' run amok at Ray of Light. Plus: 'Orpheus' retold, via storefront psychic
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Drama Masks: ‘Hamnet’ is gorgeous, but how was Shakespeare’s sausage made?

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Plus: 'Bloodlines' promises resistance, and SF Ballet's techno AI blockbuster 'Mere Mortals' returns, trailing cultural import.
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Joffrey Ballet plunged into bizarre and wondrous ‘Midsummer’s Night Dream’

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Gags, puns, allusions, and bodies flew as storied company literally made hay with beloved fantasia.
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Drama Masks: From another time of terror, ‘Burden of Proof’ urges to fight and fear not

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Alleluia Panis' latest dance follows a Pilipina nurse snatched off the streets and wrongly incarcerated.
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Drama Masks: Of tyrannical kings and dancing kilts

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SF Ballet's 'La Sylphyde' goads us to run to the woods; NCTC's 'how to make an American son' picks at the myth of meritocracy
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Dance

Alvin Ailey’s annual Berkeley run brought further ‘Revelations’

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Revered African American dance company set sail for 'Jazz Island,' tackled a table-top 'Embrace,' and renewed a stone classic.
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Drama Masks: Keeping the monsters of the world at bay

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Perk yourself up with 'Lost in Yonkers' or 'Compton's' riot. Meanwhile, Berkeley Rep's 'The Monsters' tells a sadly familiar tale.
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