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Onstage

Review: Herd mentality writ large (and snorting) in ‘Rhinoceros’

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE If you think it unlikely that an absurdist comedy about raging rhinoceroses in a small French town could resonate deeply with the concerns...
Onstage

‘Oedipus’ incarcerated: Esteban Carmona plays imprisoned tragic hero

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE When you watch the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, you know how it’s gong to end. Oedipus, suffering from hubris, will kill his father and...
Onstage

‘The Bald Soprano’: A perfect hour of absurdity returns, fire chief and all

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Ten years ago, Rob Melrose, who founded the Tenderloin’s Cutting Ball Theatre with his wife Paige Rogers, translated and directed Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist...

Pride time: 6 quick picks at the National Queer Arts Festival

Matt Sussman -
Despite the tea on Twitter, Pride month isn’t just about the continued corporate cashing-in on on-normative identity disguised as celebratory hedonism. Case in point:...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Last Black Man in San Francisco, Mexico’s Golden Age ….

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS In addition to SF Cinematheque’s annual Crossroads showcase for experimental work at SFMOMA (see Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' preview this week) and the continuation...
Arts + Culture

I want my SF DocFest: Our critic’s top picks

Dennis Harvey -
Truth is reliably stranger than fiction at SF DocFest, whose 18th annual edition takes over the Roxie Theater for eleven days starting May 30, with...
Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Open up your world with the SF International Arts Festival

Caitlin Donohue -
ARTS FORECAST Sure you're broke — so let the artists from Hong Kong, Ireland, and the Czech Republic come to you? Such is the...
Onstage

Cal Shakes begins new season fostering fresh voices in theater

Emily Wilson -
The people working at California Shakespeare Theater go all in when it comes to equity and inclusion. That means along with its program to expand...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Lessons from the dictatorship mark ‘The Silence of Others’

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS This week brings the arrival of John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum, the latest entry in what’s been one of the few action-oriented franchises worth...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: White Night rally marks SF’s legacy of insurrection

Caitlin Donohue -
ARTS FORECAST It was a bitter pill for the Castro the day Supervisor Harvey Milk and George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall in...
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