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Dan Hoyle’s border-crossing art of empathy

Karen Macklin - July 17, 2019

ONSTAGE Bay Area writer-performer Dan Hoyle, with his smart and poignant brand of journalistic theater, is at it again with his latest solo show, Border...

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“What does it mean to be a good person?”

Elaine Elinson - July 11, 2019

ONSTAGE Isn’t trampling other people exhausting work? The vein on your forehead bulges from the strain of being greedy. This is the question that Shen Te, a...

Arts + Culture

A ‘Witch Hunt’ that reverberates today

Emily Wilson - July 10, 2019

ONSTAGE In 2014, playwright Carol Lashof and director Elizabeth Vega wanted to put on a play, Just Deserts, that Lashof had written. “We connected because...

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Bring it on, Bob the Drag Queen

Joshua Rotter - July 8, 2019

ONSTAGE Coming in at number eight on “New York Magazine”’s “The Most Powerful Drag Queens in America” list meant next to nothing to Bob the...

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Wilkommen to the ever-relevant ‘Cabaret’

Elaine Elinson - July 6, 2019

ONSTAGE Probably most of us can remember the first time we saw Cabaret (at SF Playhouse through September 14). For many it would have been the...

Dance

Ethnic Dance Fest transcends borders 41 years in

Emily Wilson - July 2, 2019

Patrick Makuakāne, the founder and director of the Hawaiian dance company Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu, wants to keep traditions of the dance form intact....

Review: Anderson .Paak’s rap showmanship lights up Bill Graham

Daniel Bromfield - July 2, 2019

MUSIC REVIEW More than four decades into rap’s existence, the genre still struggles with how to present itself live. The bulk of rap shows...

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Playing a skinned cat: John William Watkins of MTC’s ‘Wink’

Emily Wilson - July 1, 2019

ONSTAGE John Williams Watkins, who plays the title role of the cat, Wink, in the play premiering at the Marin Theatre Company (through July...

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Matteo Lane gets Clusterfested

Joshua Rotter - June 19, 2019

ONSTAGE Out New York-based comedian Matteo Lane didn’t dream of a career in comedy, growing up. In fact, the “Moving On” (2015), “Crashing” (2018), and...

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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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Dan Hoyle’s border-crossing art of empathy

“What does it mean to be a good person?”

A ‘Witch Hunt’ that reverberates today

Bring it on, Bob the Drag Queen

Wilkommen to the ever-relevant ‘Cabaret’

Ethnic Dance Fest transcends borders 41 years in

Review: Anderson .Paak’s rap showmanship lights up Bill Graham

Playing a skinned cat: John William Watkins of MTC’s ‘Wink’

Matteo Lane gets Clusterfested

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

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