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‘Plot Point in Our Sexual Development’ dissects a history of trans love

Charles Lewis III - December 1, 2021

Definitions of "comfort" are contested as a couple rolls through their sexual triumphs and trials.

Onstage

Review: ‘The Claim’ captures the hurricane of immigration red tape

Charles Lewis III - October 25, 2021

Shotgun Players return with a rapid-fire examination of the limits of bureaucratic and romantic language.

Onstage

Reading is fundamental: 44 years of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Caitlin Donohue - July 14, 2021

At nearly a half-century, this showcase of early-career playwrights must be doing something right. Find out what, starting Fri/16.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

Marke B. - September 17, 2019

MUCH ADO ABOUT FOLSOM Folsom Street Fair is two Sundays away (watch for my party guide), and what better way could organizers seize the news...

Onstage

Watching movies—and coping and connecting—in ‘The Flick’

Emily Wilson - September 12, 2019

Jon Tracy says the first time he read Annie Baker’s play, The Flick, (which he is directing at Shotgun Players, through October 6) it...

Onstage

‘Exit Strategy’: Can they save a crumbling high school?

Emily Wilson - September 6, 2019

Adam Niemann has a monologue in Exit Strategy at the Aurora Theatre (Through September 29) that he "feels like going down on a ramp...

Onstage

In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

Emily Wilson - June 18, 2019

ONSTAGE Waiting after school for his mother to pick him up after a high school French club meeting, Rotimi Agbabiaka—whose new show Manifesto plays at...

Onstage

Review: Superman is Black and invincible in ‘Supremacy’

Jeffrey Edalatpour - May 13, 2019

Two modes of storytelling collide with meaningful results in Jason Mendez’s play Supremacy (at Exit Theatre through Sat/18). The playwright repurposes Superman’s origin story...

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As a queer POC, El Beh finds joy in playing ‘Mary Poppins’

Emily Wilson - November 30, 2018

ONSTAGE El Beh, who plays the title role in San Francisco Playhouse’s Mary Poppins (through January 12), never would have thought to play the no-nonsense nanny...

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From uproarious meme to poignant play (with salad)

Emily Wilson - October 21, 2018

ONSTAGE Sheila Callaghan appreciates a good meme. Several friends, knowing this, sent her the notorious one of "Women Laughing Alone with Salad,” after the blog...

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‘Plot Point in Our Sexual Development’ dissects a history of trans love

Review: ‘The Claim’ captures the hurricane of immigration red tape

Reading is fundamental: 44 years of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

Watching movies—and coping and connecting—in ‘The Flick’

‘Exit Strategy’: Can they save a crumbling high school?

In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

Review: Superman is Black and invincible in ‘Supremacy’

As a queer POC, El Beh finds joy in playing ‘Mary Poppins’

From uproarious meme to poignant play (with salad)

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