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‘Type/Caste’ is a curtain call for theater stereotypes

Caitlin Donohue - September 7, 2016

ONSTAGE I’ve been close to Bay Area actor Rotimi Agbabiaka for years, during which we have spent many moments laughing. There was the time...

Arts + Culture

You’ve never seen (or heard) ‘Showgirls’ like this

Dennis Harvey - August 19, 2016

ONSTAGE Recognized as an instant camp classic -- as well as a commercial disaster and artistic WTF -- upon its initial 1995 release, Paul...

Art

Is SF done with Pocha Nostra? (Is Pocha Nostra done with SF?)

Caitlin Donohue - August 18, 2016

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO -- Logistically and philosophically, being a trans-border radical performance art troupe is not simple. The Bay Area-based Pocha Nostra troupe, led...

Arts + Culture

The straight dope

Marke B. - July 27, 2016

ONSTAGE It's been a minute since hyperkinetic comic actor John Leguizamo tore up the boards here -- I last caught him nearly half a decade...

Arts + Culture

Mime Troupe tackles ignorance at its root in 57th season

Caitlin Donohue - June 28, 2016

ON STAGE San Francisco is a town that has always enjoyed its culture served with a heavy dose of social critique. That may be why...

Arts + Culture

Madness, yet with method in’t

Marke B. - May 2, 2016

ONSTAGE "Oh shoot, they picked the white guy." OK, OK, no one actually said that when it was announced that the part of Hamlet --...

Art

Pulsing onward

Maro Guevara - April 14, 2016

A renaissance at 25? For almost a quarter century, CounterPulse had been producing "risk-taking art that shatters assumptions and builds community," providing San Francisco...

Arts + Culture

Digging deep, empowered by grief

Caitlin Donohue - April 13, 2016

Performer Mika Lemoine didn't fully grasp the power of Destiny Arts Center and Embodiment Project's documentary play Seed Language until its opening night. (The...

Onstage

Punching up

Marke B. - March 7, 2016

ONSTAGE "Yes, yes, how awesome, how brave" you think with a soft golf clap when you hear that the Punch Line Comedy Club has...

Onstage

Enter ‘The Colored Museum’

Marke B. - February 26, 2016

ONSTAGE The premise is ingenious: an evening of vignettes -- recalling Vaudeville or the chitlin' circuit or, farther back, Commedia dell'arte -- that send up,...

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‘Type/Caste’ is a curtain call for theater stereotypes

You’ve never seen (or heard) ‘Showgirls’ like this

Is SF done with Pocha Nostra? (Is Pocha Nostra done with SF?)

The straight dope

Mime Troupe tackles ignorance at its root in 57th season

Madness, yet with method in’t

Pulsing onward

Digging deep, empowered by grief

Punching up

Enter ‘The Colored Museum’

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