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Comedian Gina Yashere rides the ‘up’ elevator to stardom

Emily Wilson - June 28, 2018

ONSTAGE Growing up in London, Gina Yashere never considered a career in comedy. She came from an academic family, and her mother had specific careers...

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Seeing Red: SF Mime Troupe is making it a socialist summer

Caitlin Donohue - June 27, 2018

ONSTAGE As someone who grew up watching San Francisco Mime Troupe productions, I can tell you that there is a right and true way...

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Hattie McDaniel’s pioneering, tumultuous life—in song

Elaine Elinson - June 25, 2018

ONSTAGE What most people know about Hattie McDaniel is that she was the first African American woman to win an Oscar, for her outstanding performance...

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Blasting off from the Catskills in ACT’s ‘A Walk on the Moon’

Elaine Elinson - June 22, 2018

ONSTAGE There should be more tummlers. A Walk on the Moon (at ACT through July 1), brings you right into the world of Jewish summer...

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Swimming through teen girls’ intense friendship in ‘Dry Land’

Emily Wilson - June 7, 2018

ONSTAGE Grace Ng played Wilhelm, the lead, in the Shotgun Player’s recent production of The Black Rider. So when the theater held auditions for...

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Stephen Spinella: Playing Trump and Reagan’s lawyer in ‘Angels in America’

Emily Wilson - June 3, 2018

ONSTAGE Twenty-five years ago, Stephen Spinella won two Tonys playing main character Prior Walter in the Broadway debut of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Hot docs, silent classics, Bergman at 100 …

Dennis Harvey - May 29, 2018

SCREEN GRABS Summer may have (let’s hope) arrived at last, but don’t let that stop you from staying indoors—particularly as two of the city’s most...

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Heaven’s Gate reverberates in mystical coming-of-age tale ‘Barn Owl’

Marke B. - May 28, 2018

ONSTAGE Playwright and actor Evan Johnson's drag queen alter ego, Martha T. Lipton the Failed Actress, is one of the most delightfully surreal performers in...

Dance

Keith Hennessy’s fiercely political, achingly intimate ‘Crotch’ and ‘Sink’

Marke B. - May 28, 2018

DANCE/PERFORMANCE A pagan drag queen Green Man, sporting a maypole-ribbon corset and tiny Speedo, hopping about madly on stilts? A ferocious clown satire of the...

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The Civil War, from another side, in ‘Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2, and 3’

Marke B. - May 10, 2018

ONSTAGE A historical epic, a taut thriller, a chamber melodrama, a heart-warming comedy, a social scalding: Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrings a lot from her...

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Comedian Gina Yashere rides the ‘up’ elevator to stardom

Seeing Red: SF Mime Troupe is making it a socialist summer

Hattie McDaniel’s pioneering, tumultuous life—in song

Blasting off from the Catskills in ACT’s ‘A Walk on the Moon’

Swimming through teen girls’ intense friendship in ‘Dry Land’

Stephen Spinella: Playing Trump and Reagan’s lawyer in ‘Angels in America’

Screen Grabs: Hot docs, silent classics, Bergman at 100 …

Heaven’s Gate reverberates in mystical coming-of-age tale ‘Barn Owl’

Keith Hennessy’s fiercely political, achingly intimate ‘Crotch’ and ‘Sink’

The Civil War, from another side, in ‘Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2, and 3’

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