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The sun hasn’t set yet on Sonny Smith’s SF

Daniel Bromfield - March 21, 2019

ALL EARS As the decade began, all eyes were on San Francisco’s rock scene. Sic Alps, Thee Oh Sees, White Fence, and the Fresh...

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Review: Tuskegee Airmen take flight again in ‘Black Eagles’

Elaine Elinson - March 20, 2019

ONSTAGE Black Eagles (through March 31 at Marines' Memorial Theatre), now being staged by the African-American Shakespeare Company and directed by L. Peter Callender, illuminates...

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Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

Emily Wilson - March 15, 2019

ONSTAGE While writing the nine plays of the Ufot Family Cycle, which follows several generations of a family of Nigerians in America, Mfoniso Udofia...

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Exploring consent—and its conversations—in ‘Actually’

Emily Wilson - March 12, 2019

ONSTAGE In the first grade, Michael A. Curry had a role in “The Wiz.” He loved being on stage, and he never really considered another...

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Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….

Dennis Harvey - March 11, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Though it doesn’t get the same international nostalgic attention these days accorded similar movements in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, one of...

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In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy

Emily Wilson - March 9, 2019

ONSTAGE When Dipika Guha got her Bachelor’s degree in English from University College London, she wasn’t thinking of being a playwright. She’d just moved with...

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Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

Elaine Elinson - March 7, 2019

ONSTAGE A young woman frantically shouts into a graffiti-scrawled pay phone in a shabby airline terminal. She clutches a green handbag and tries to keep...

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Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

Dennis Harvey - March 5, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...

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Review: ‘Fiorello!’ sets the LaGuardia legend to rousing music

Elaine Elinson - March 4, 2019

ONSTAGE For those unfamiliar with Fiorello LaGuardia, the friend-of-the-working class Republican who fought Tammany Hall to become the 99th Mayor of New York City, the...

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Review: The gleaming, steaming ‘Hamilton’ machine

Marke B. - March 4, 2019

ONSTAGE OK, Thomas Jefferson as Slick Rick got me. Dazzlingly embodied by actor Simon Longnight in the latest touring production of Hamilton to hit SF (through...

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The sun hasn’t set yet on Sonny Smith’s SF

Review: Tuskegee Airmen take flight again in ‘Black Eagles’

Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

Exploring consent—and its conversations—in ‘Actually’

Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….

In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy

Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

Review: ‘Fiorello!’ sets the LaGuardia legend to rousing music

Review: The gleaming, steaming ‘Hamilton’ machine

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