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“What does it mean to be a good person?”

Elaine Elinson - July 11, 2019

ONSTAGE Isn’t trampling other people exhausting work? The vein on your forehead bulges from the strain of being greedy. This is the question that Shen Te, a...

Arts + Culture

A ‘Witch Hunt’ that reverberates today

Emily Wilson - July 10, 2019

ONSTAGE In 2014, playwright Carol Lashof and director Elizabeth Vega wanted to put on a play, Just Deserts, that Lashof had written. “We connected because...

Onstage

Wilkommen to the ever-relevant ‘Cabaret’

Elaine Elinson - July 6, 2019

ONSTAGE Probably most of us can remember the first time we saw Cabaret (at SF Playhouse through September 14). For many it would have been the...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A ‘sex raft’ run amuck

Dennis Harvey - June 19, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The big news in Bay Area moviegoing this week is the annual arrival of the Frameline LGBTQ film fest, which we previewed here....

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...

Lit

Remembering Kevin Killian, 1952-2019

Alvin Orloff - June 18, 2019

Editor's Note: Word came Saturday from his wife and fellow writer Dodie Bellamy that essential SF queer writer Kevin Killian—poet, teacher, playwright, gossip, Kylie...

At 83, piano legend Larry Vuckovich recounts a ‘Fascinating Jazz Life’

Reese Erlich - June 13, 2019

ALL EARS Pianist and composer Larry Vuckovich has been a headliner in the Bay Area jazz scene for over 60 years. His creative approach...

Onstage

Immersive Jazz Age decadence in ‘The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws’

Dennis Harvey - June 13, 2019

ONSTAGE One hundred years ago the US Senate bowed to the pressure of temperance activists and passed the National Prohibition Act. It was one...

Onstage

Tracing how Silicon Valley treats women in ‘The Fit’

Emily Wilson - June 12, 2019

ONSTAGE Carey Perloff started off as a playwright. Then she was named artistic director of the Classic Stage Company in New York, before coming to...

Onstage

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

Elaine Elinson - June 12, 2019

ONSTAGE Ten years after Oedipus El Rey premiered at the Magic Theatre, Luis Alfaro’s drama is being staged there as a legacy revival, again directed by...

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“What does it mean to be a good person?”

A ‘Witch Hunt’ that reverberates today

Wilkommen to the ever-relevant ‘Cabaret’

Screen Grabs: A ‘sex raft’ run amuck

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

Remembering Kevin Killian, 1952-2019

At 83, piano legend Larry Vuckovich recounts a ‘Fascinating Jazz Life’

Immersive Jazz Age decadence in ‘The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws’

Tracing how Silicon Valley treats women in ‘The Fit’

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

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