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With ‘The Kind Ones,’ a gift play for a woman in a Montana shelter

Emily Wilson - February 2, 2022

Miranda Rose Hall's new work at Magic Theatre contemplates what happens when systems fail.

Onstage

Sean San José: ‘There needs to be a home for more people’ in local theater

Lou Fancher - September 13, 2021

The new Magic Theatre Artistic Director builds on his deep roots with a passion for actual—not superficial—inclusion.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)

Marke B. - April 30, 2020

As we move farther toward festival season, it's really dawning that our hugest events will take place on our screens. It's not like we...

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In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets

Emily Wilson - March 11, 2020

When Wilma Bonet first read Ricardo Pérez González's script for the play Don’t Eat the Mangos (through March 22 at Magic Theatre), she liked it right away. “First...

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Review: A fiery intellect bound by exoticism in ‘The Chinese Lady’

Elaine Elinson - October 23, 2019

Even as the audience files in, we are already part of the play, or rather, the exhibition. Atung (Will Dao) sits in front of...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

Marke B. - September 17, 2019

MUCH ADO ABOUT FOLSOM Folsom Street Fair is two Sundays away (watch for my party guide), and what better way could organizers seize the news...

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In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

Emily Wilson - June 18, 2019

ONSTAGE Waiting after school for his mother to pick him up after a high school French club meeting, Rotimi Agbabiaka—whose new show Manifesto plays at...

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Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

Elaine Elinson - June 12, 2019

ONSTAGE Ten years after Oedipus El Rey premiered at the Magic Theatre, Luis Alfaro’s drama is being staged there as a legacy revival, again directed by...

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‘Oedipus’ incarcerated: Esteban Carmona plays imprisoned tragic hero

Emily Wilson - June 6, 2019

ONSTAGE When you watch the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, you know how it’s gong to end. Oedipus, suffering from hubris, will kill his father and...

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Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

Emily Wilson - March 15, 2019

ONSTAGE While writing the nine plays of the Ufot Family Cycle, which follows several generations of a family of Nigerians in America, Mfoniso Udofia...

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With ‘The Kind Ones,’ a gift play for a woman in a Montana shelter

Sean San José: ‘There needs to be a home for more people’ in local theater

Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)

In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets

Review: A fiery intellect bound by exoticism in ‘The Chinese Lady’

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

‘Oedipus’ incarcerated: Esteban Carmona plays imprisoned tragic hero

Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

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