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SF Mime Troupe’s ‘American Dream’: Palestine, AI, and those two old white guys

Charles Lewis III - July 9, 2024

Ever topical, the troupe's annual free park show is one of the liveliest and most realized in years.

Stage Review

Ranger, activist, housewife, centenarian: ‘Sign My Name to Freedom’ traces an extraordinary life

Charles Lewis III - April 4, 2024

Betty Reid Soskin's continuing journey is set to music—and portrayed by four actors—at Z Space.

Stage Review

Mime Troupe dives into ‘doom loop’ hysteria in affecting ‘Breakdown’

Charles Lewis III - July 11, 2023

Latest show cuts through the right-wing propaganda with heart, laughs, and plenty of colorful characters

Onstage

Scathing new SF Mime Troupe show takes on mental health, houselessness

Caitlin Donohue - June 28, 2023

'Breakdown' contrasts the stories of a 20-something San Franciscan on the streets with that of a conniving FOX News anchor.

Stage Review

In ‘Mondragola,’ a young radical faces down—Machiavelli?

Charles Lewis III - March 22, 2023

Central Works’ season opener lampoons theatre itself, just as much as politics.

Stage Review

SF Mime Troupe tackles phony liberal nostalgia in ‘Back to the Way Things Were’

Charles Lewis III - July 6, 2022

For its 63rd season, the Troupe returns outdoors for a sci-fi skewering of Obama-era pieties.

Performance

Screen star Colman Domingo revisits Bay Area roots for Mime Troupe celebration

Joshua Rotter - March 9, 2021

The very hot actor on Chadwick Boseman, 'Nash Bridges,' and his powerful work with the Troupe's Youth Theatre Project

Movies

Screen Grabs: The marvelous range of Max von Sydow

Dennis Harvey - March 4, 2021

Plus: Jane Fonda tours 1972 Vietnam, a dog tale from Turkey, mischievous orphans in Afghanistan, more

Culture

San Francisco Mime Troupe: Best of the Bay 2020 Editors’ Pick

48 Hills - December 22, 2020

Pivoting to online 'radio plays,' the 51-year-old favorite brought us vibrant 'Tales of the Resistance' and a timely 'Red Carol'

Best of the Bay

BEST OF THE BAY 2020 EDITORS’ PICKS

48 Hills - December 1, 2020

We're highlighting some of the tremendous people, places, and things that made the Bay Area shine during one heck of a year

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SF Mime Troupe’s ‘American Dream’: Palestine, AI, and those two old white guys

Ranger, activist, housewife, centenarian: ‘Sign My Name to Freedom’ traces an extraordinary life

Mime Troupe dives into ‘doom loop’ hysteria in affecting ‘Breakdown’

Scathing new SF Mime Troupe show takes on mental health, houselessness

In ‘Mondragola,’ a young radical faces down—Machiavelli?

SF Mime Troupe tackles phony liberal nostalgia in ‘Back to the Way Things Were’

Screen star Colman Domingo revisits Bay Area roots for Mime Troupe celebration

Screen Grabs: The marvelous range of Max von Sydow

San Francisco Mime Troupe: Best of the Bay 2020 Editors’ Pick

BEST OF THE BAY 2020 EDITORS’ PICKS

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