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Arts Forecast: Hip-hop pioneers, classic punks, Hawaiian fun…

ARTS FORECAST It's weird growing older in a media-saturated environment. For years, the only connection I had to my hip-hop-adoring youth was a clutch of...

Review: ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ has powerhouse vocals, timely resonance

ONSTAGE When Quasimodo (Alex Rodriguez) and Esmeralda (Alysia Noelle Beltran) sit perched on a railing in the bell tower of Notre Dame looking down...

An Asian American twist on the bourgeoisie, white wine included

ONSTAGE A couple years ago Leah Nanako Winkler and her colleagues at Youngblood, a collective of playwrights under 30, were looking at the season...

The sheer audacity of ‘Angels in America’

ONSTAGE "Why is Angels in America still the most prominent story being told about AIDS?" asked a wonderfully provocative essay about the epic early '90s...

Comedian Gina Yashere rides the ‘up’ elevator to stardom

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...

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

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

Hattie McDaniel’s pioneering, tumultuous life—in song

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...