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Onstage

‘Born Yesterday’—but a 70-year-old play splendidly comments on today

Emily Wilson - February 26, 2018

ONSTAGE "It’s amazing how pertinent this feels," a man in front of me at the SF Playhouse told his friend at the end of...

Foreign Correspondent

Trump’s new plan: Arm theater ushers

Reese Erlich - February 25, 2018

WASHINGTON DC -- President Donald Trump announced new plans today to combat mass shootings: arming movie theater ushers. "When we've locked down schools by arming...

Architecturally sound neon Pomeranians: Our top 5 from Mexico City Art Week

Caitlin Donohue - February 13, 2018

ART LOOKS I didn’t expect to be here, writing to you, about this. After many years of penning flippant retorts and scene reports from...

Onstage

The tale of an enduring marriage, sound effects included, in ‘Reel to Reel’

Elaine Elinson - February 13, 2018

ONSTAGE If hearing about an intimate drama with two couples—one youthful, one aging—trying to figure out their relationships automatically conjures up "Who’s Afraid of...

A new guerrilla folk opera immerses you in 2014’s Ukrainian revolution

Marke B. - February 9, 2018

ALL EARS Protests are a form of performance, of course—even the most spontaneous ones. The attempt is to seize the public stage to proclaim certain...

Onstage

Expanding the face of Detroit’s working class with ‘Skeleton Crew’

Emily Wilson - February 5, 2018

The playwright Dominique Morisseau has family members and friends in Detroit who lost their houses in the 2008 recession, or got bad buyouts from...

What does marriage sound like?

Emily Wilson - February 2, 2018

ONSTAGE John Kolvenbach wanted to tell the intimate story of a long marriage. So in his latest play at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, Reel...

News + Politics

The big winner in the mayoral vote …

Tim Redmond - January 28, 2018

The New York Times, which has local reporters and ought to know better, ran a headline last week stating that the progressives had “ousted”...

Onstage

Telling—and dancing—the tragic story of Partition in ‘The Parting’

Elaine Elinson - January 26, 2018

ONSTAGE The crowd of weary travelers staggered on stage—some in elegant jewel-toned salwar khameez and saris, some in ragged dhotis and shawls. They carried...

Arts + Culture

Our most-read stories of 2017

Marke B. - December 30, 2017

This was a truly unsettling year, from the election of Donald Trump and the resurgence of white supremacist movements to the sudden death of...

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