BWW Review: A SMALL FIRE at Shotgun Players
Adam Bock's fifth production at Shotgun Players involves a poignant story of a powerful woman losing control and the effects on her immediate family.
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BWW Review: DEAR SAN FRANCISCO: A HIGH FLYING LOVE STORY at Club Fugazi
How can the historic Club Fugazi follow up on Beach Blanket Babylon, the world's longest-running musical revue, which played for more than 17,200 performances and to over 6.
BWW Review: HART'S DESIRE at Theatre Rhino
Award-winning entertainer Mark Nadler (2015 Broadway World Editor's Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year) blew into town for a brief 4-performance run of his new show Hart's Desire, a very gay imagined collaboration between Moss Hart and Lorenz Hart had they not been closeted in the 1930's and 4
BWW Review: THE PAPER DREAMS OF HARRY CHIN at SF Playhouse
Award-winning playwright Jessica Huang's powerful story of the repercussions of the Chinese Exclusion Act is superbly realized by Director Jeffrey Lo (The Language Archive, The Santaland Diaries, Vietgone) and a stellar cast including my local fave Jomar Tagatac in another outstanding performance.
BWW Review: FUN HOME at 42nd Street Moon Beautifully Explores a Daughter's Longing to Come to Terms with Her Family History
BroadwayWorld reviews 42nd Street Moon's gloriously heart-rending and humorous new production of the Tony-winning musical 'Fun Home' running live in San Francisco through May 8th only.
BWW Review: SWAN LAKE at San Francisco Ballet Brings the 2022 Season to a Spectacular Close
BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's glorious production of Helgi Tomasson's 'Swan Lake' running through May 8th.
BWW Review: AIROTIC SOIREE at Great Star Theatre
Built in 1925, the revived 500-seat Great Star Theater is the only remaining theater in San Francisco's Chinatown and now has the hottest show in town with AirOtic Soiree, a sensationally seductive evening of aerial circus artistry and burlesque cabaret at its finest.
BWW Review: OCTET at Berkeley Rep Finds the Humanity in Our Technology-Obsessed Culture
BroadwayWorld reviews Berkeley Rep's pitch-perfect production of Dave Malloy's beguiling acapella musical 'Octet' running live through May 29th
BWW Review: TOOTSIE at Broadway San Jose
Tootsie made its Northern California premiere at San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts and will be there now through April 24.
BWW Review: GEM OF THE OCEAN at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
August Wilson's powerful drama of racial unrest in Pittsburgh circa 1905 seems exceptionally prescient these days, confirming that the struggle for equality and freedom are a constant for African Americans that shapes their everyday lives in ways both subtle and overt.
BWW Review: FEFU AND HER FRIENDS at A.C.T. Delivers a Uniquely Compelling Theatrical Experience
BroadwayWorld reviews A.
BWW Review: Broadway San Jose's Limited Run of RENT is Glorious
Broadway San Jose's limited run of Jonathan Larson's RENT is a glorious time of raw-energy rock, as well as a heartrending reminder to measure your life in love.
BWW Review: PROGRAM 6 at San Francisco Ballet Shows Off the Range of This Remarkable Company
BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's stunningly varied Program 6.
BWW Review: PROGRAM 5 at San Francisco Ballet Showcases Its Dazzling Dancers
BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's dazzling new Program 5 running through April 16th, which includes a world premiere by Helgi Tomasson and a reprise of Yuri Possokhov's popular 'Magrittomania.
BWW Review: Betty Buckley And Christian Jacob Take the Stage at Feinstein's At The Nikko
Betty Buckley is in a league all by herself, perhaps the greatest interpreter of a lyric performing today.
BWW Review: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION at Phoenix Theatre
Annie Baker said she wanted to explore her characters through artificial acting exercises in a dull, windowless little space involving excruciating silences.
BWW Review: WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at SF Playhouse
Park your baggage at the door before experiencing Quiara Alegria Hudes' 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning drama Water by the Spoonful, because the characters presented here are plenty wounded, damaged, and extremely fragile.
BWW Review: PASSING STRANGE at Shotgun Players
The Bay Area is enjoying a renaissance of black theatre, perhaps in conjunction with Black History Month: NCTC's Dot, MTC's Pass Over and now Shotgun Players' spectacular revival of Passing Strange, the Tony, Obie, and Drama Critics Circle Award winning musical.
BWW Review: PROGRAM 4 at San Francisco Ballet Makes Everything Old Feel New Again
BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's richly-rewarding Program 4, which runs lives onstage at the War Memorial Opera House through Sunday, March 20th.
BWW Review: Jeanna De Waal at Feinstein's At The Nikko Celebrates Life's Highs and Lows and Everything in Between
BroadwayWorld reviews Jeanna de Waal's new cabaret show at Feinstein's at the Nikko in San Francisco.
BWW Review: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
So very nice to be able to write Directed by Robert Kelley.
BWW Review: A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING at 42nd Street Moon
42nd Street Moon opens their 21-22 season with a tribute to one of the greatest songwriting teams in American musical theatre - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
BWW Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell in Concert at Lesher Center Leaves the Audience Floating on Air
BroadwayWorld reviews Brian Stokes Mitchell's glorious concert at the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek on February 25th.
BWW Review: DON QUIXOTE at San Francisco Ballet Celebrates the Joy of Dancing
BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's fizzy production of the classic 'Don Quixote' running live onstage at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House through March 6th.
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West Side Story—Film with Live Orchestra Davies Symphony Hall (7/09-7/10) |
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The Still Point: An Immersive Experience SOMArts Cultural Center (7/16-7/25) |
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark SPARC (7/03-7/26) |
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Comedy Oakland at Quinn's Lighthouse Fri Aug 7 8:30pm Quinn's Lighthouse (8/07-8/07) |
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Josh Kornbluth’s What Is To Be Done?: Fighting Fascism and Depression The Marsh San Francisco (6/19-7/31) |
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Comedy Oakland at Elbo Room Sat Aug 29 7pm Elbo Room Jack London (8/29-8/29) |
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Comedy Oakland at Elbo Room Fri July 31 7:30pm Elbo Room Jack London (7/31-7/31) |
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The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown Santa Cruz Shakespeare (9/11-10/03) |
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The Employee Dharma Handbook Lucie Stern Theatre (7/08-8/02) |
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Comedy Oakland at Quinn's Lighthouse Sat July 18 7pm Quinn's Lighthouse (7/18-7/18) |