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‘How To Be a White Man’ explores power and identity with a comic touch

Emily Wilson - March 19, 2018

ONSTAGE Growing up in rural Louisiana, queer black comedian and social worker Luna Malbroux was pretty familiar with assumptions people might make about her....

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Flipping the script on a tragic war’s fallout in ‘Vietgone’

Elaine Elinson - March 13, 2018

ONSTAGE "You lost a brother, I lost my family. You lost a brother, I lost my whole country… I lost everything I had." With this...

Mama (with Vicki Lawrence) comes a-callin’ at the Castro

Marke B. - March 13, 2018

"I was about to go on for the Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special on CBS back in December, and I was just so nervous!...

21st Romani Music Festival lights up with electrifying horns, cultural openness

Joanna Ladd - March 5, 2018

ALL EARS You know your Balkan party scene is good when top-shelf Balkan musicians want in on it. The Romani clarinet wizard Ismail Lumanovski...

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A school mass shooting inspires a new play at Berkeley Rep

Emily Wilson - March 1, 2018

ONSTAGE After the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, playwright Julia Cho (Aubergine, The Language Archive) was looking for something that would help her understand...

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‘Born Yesterday’—but a 70-year-old play splendidly comments on today

Emily Wilson - February 26, 2018

ONSTAGE "It’s amazing how pertinent this feels," a man in front of me at the SF Playhouse told his friend at the end of...

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The tale of an enduring marriage, sound effects included, in ‘Reel to Reel’

Elaine Elinson - February 13, 2018

ONSTAGE If hearing about an intimate drama with two couples—one youthful, one aging—trying to figure out their relationships automatically conjures up "Who’s Afraid of...

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Expanding the face of Detroit’s working class with ‘Skeleton Crew’

Emily Wilson - February 5, 2018

The playwright Dominique Morisseau has family members and friends in Detroit who lost their houses in the 2008 recession, or got bad buyouts from...

What does marriage sound like?

Emily Wilson - February 2, 2018

ONSTAGE John Kolvenbach wanted to tell the intimate story of a long marriage. So in his latest play at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, Reel...

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Telling—and dancing—the tragic story of Partition in ‘The Parting’

Elaine Elinson - January 26, 2018

ONSTAGE The crowd of weary travelers staggered on stage—some in elegant jewel-toned salwar khameez and saris, some in ragged dhotis and shawls. They carried...

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‘How To Be a White Man’ explores power and identity with a comic touch

Flipping the script on a tragic war’s fallout in ‘Vietgone’

Mama (with Vicki Lawrence) comes a-callin’ at the Castro

21st Romani Music Festival lights up with electrifying horns, cultural openness

A school mass shooting inspires a new play at Berkeley Rep

‘Born Yesterday’—but a 70-year-old play splendidly comments on today

The tale of an enduring marriage, sound effects included, in ‘Reel to Reel’

Expanding the face of Detroit’s working class with ‘Skeleton Crew’

What does marriage sound like?

Telling—and dancing—the tragic story of Partition in ‘The Parting’

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