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Tagged with: New Conservatory Theatre

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Katya Smirnoff-Skyy

Stage queen serves polished pipes and pathos from Oasis to New Conservatory Theatre Center.

Life ends at 30? It’s complicated (and very Gen X) in ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’

Jonathan Larson's musical, which itself is turning 30, documents an artist's frustrations at a transitional age.

‘The Tutor’ offers a radical take on love triangles, queer Iranian expat-style

Torange Yeghiazarian's NCTC play refreshingly lets a young lesbian from a repressive county just be horny.

Jewelle Gomez’s ‘Unpacking in P’Town’ lights out on 1959 chosen family vacay

Playwright says her latest calls upon real life, but its catty quintet seem oddly divorced from the times.

High camp ‘Ruthless!’ is hilarious tonic for holiday overload

Over-the-top New Conservatory production asks 'What if 'All About Eve,' but with school children?'

In ‘Before the Sword,’ beloved fantasy author becomes metaphorical Merlin

Engaging New Conservatory play puts a (slightly) queer spin on an episode in 'Sword in the Stone' writer TH White's life

Quaking with fervor at the brothel in ‘The Confession of Lily Dare’

Camp maven Charles Busch's latest at NCTC has all the diva elements, although the execution's airy.

‘Getting There’ wove Ugly American tropes into Parisian storylines of love and loss

Dipika Guha’s world premiere one-act at New Conservatory entertained as it lampooned.

Sympathetic ‘A Picture of Two Boys’ tells story of friendship under fire

It's a tale that will feel familiar to many—but does the play have what it takes to do the trope justice?

Clash of generations in ‘Aunt Jack’ hilariously upends LGBTQ+ cliches

Nora Brigid Monahan's West Coast premiere at New Conservatory seizes on familiar genre tropes to tell a necessary story