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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...

Onstage

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...

Onstage

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...

Movies

Flying high with ‘The Seagull’ (and a few other things, beside)

Emily Wilson - May 8, 2018

Michael Mayer, who won a Tony for Broadway rock musical/teenage hormone eruption "Spring Awakening," has directed TV shows, operas, and movies, along with theater....

Onstage

A giddy Go-Go’s time warp in “Head Over Heels”

Marke B. - April 23, 2018

ONSTAGE It's real cute, the good kind of cute. Head Over Heels (through May 6 at the Curran Theatre), the "posh meets punk" Elizabethan...

A ‘Timon’ for our times? Cutting Ball Theatre transfers Shakespeare to SF

Emily Wilson - April 16, 2018

ARTS Rob Melrose first read one of Shakespeare’s least-produced plays, Timon of Athens (through May 6 at Cutting Ball Theatre), in a contemporary English version...

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Review: ‘Disruption’ offers timely #metoo twist on tech scandals

Elaine Elinson - April 9, 2018

ONSTAGE Since the #MeToo movement burst on the scene, it has illuminated the epidemic of sexual harassment that has long afflicted women in all...

‘The Wolves’ kicks up young women’s power, rage, and sheer joy

Emily Wilson - April 3, 2018

ONSTAGE Morgan Green grew up in Marin and went to Redwood High School. Now she lives in Brooklyn. So directing Marin Theatre Company's The Wolves (through...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Sapphic pleasures, Lynchian delights, an indie Hotline …

Marke B. - March 27, 2018

PARTY RADAR This weekend is stacked like an inflatable drag queen, do they have those yet? I hope not! So let's just dive into...

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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’

Flying high with ‘The Seagull’ (and a few other things, beside)

A giddy Go-Go’s time warp in “Head Over Heels”

A ‘Timon’ for our times? Cutting Ball Theatre transfers Shakespeare to SF

Review: ‘Disruption’ offers timely #metoo twist on tech scandals

‘The Wolves’ kicks up young women’s power, rage, and sheer joy

Party Radar: Sapphic pleasures, Lynchian delights, an indie Hotline …

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