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An irascible scholar with dementia communicates with her caretaker daughter using only the text of Shakespeare's King Lear, as the two struggle with aging, love, and their own balance of power.
First premiered in autumn 2014, this new take on our distilled two-person King Lear features powerful female performers in a fraught mother-daughter relationship. The mother is the monarch of her story and her imagination chooses the most epic death (Lear’s) to emulate in her final hour; her caretaker daughter becomes Cordelia, Fool and a host of other voices, conducting her mother to her last breath. Their story, one of the familiar and familial struggles of age, pride, regret, power, forgiveness and love, is played out through the incomparable text of Shakespeare’s Lear. The piece invites us to explore our own relationship to mortality, death and loss - and how we might move from fear to acceptance.
This two-person, one-hour distillation of King Lear is designed to invite conversations about the meaning and experience of death. After each performance a special guest whose life’s work involves the dying will share thoughts and host a general conversation among those who wish to participate.
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Photos: First Look at THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE at Center Repertory Company
November 06, 2023Center Repertory Company is presenting The Legend of Georgia McBride, written by Tony and Olivier Award winner Matthew López (The Inheritance, The Whipping Man, Somewhere, the book of the Broadway musical Some Like it Hot, and Amazon Studios’ Red, White & Royal Blue). Check out production photos here!
Matthew López's Hilarious THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE At Center REP, November 4- 26
September 20, 2023Center Repertory Company will present The Legend of Georgia McBride, written by Tony and Olivier Award winner Matthew López (The Inheritance, The Whipping Man, Somewhere, the book of the Broadway musical Some Like it Hot, and Amazon Studios' Red, White & Royal Blue).
CLUE to be Presented at San Francisco Playhouse in March
February 06, 2023Directed by San Francisco Playhouse Co-Founder and Producing Director Susi Damilano, Clue will perform March 9 – April 22, 2023 at San Francisco Playhouse.
3Girls Theatre Company Will Return to Z Below for its 8th New Works Festival
February 12, 2020Company Founder & Executive Artistic Director AJ Baker who recently brought her successful 3-decade long career as founder and partner of her own law firm to a close in order to dedicate herself to the company and its projects full time has asked a broad array (see what we did there?) of Bay Area women writers, performers and theatre-makers to reimagine history 'knowing what we know now' at the 9-day Festival; highlights include Mother Lear; an evening dedicated to the theme of 'Hindsight is 2020' and 'flipping the script' that includes a short play & tip of the hat to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls called Bottoms Up!; an evening of LezWritesBTQ performances, and the staged readings of the two Salon Series finalist's plays competing for the Festival Prize: Swimming with Puppies by Susan Jackson and Meth by Elizabeth Flanagan
3Girls Theatre Company Will Return to Z Below for its 8th New Works Festival
January 24, 20203Girls Theatre Company returns to Z Below for its 8th New Works Festival, the first since company Founder and Executive Artistic Director AJ Baker brought her 3-decade long private law practice to a close in order to dedicate her time and energy to the company exclusively. 'My specialty as a lawyer has been employment law, often revolving around high-stakes contracts and payouts. I've seen firsthand how unless you take action to stop it, history has a way of repeating itself. So, 'flipping the script' is an important tool to understanding our world, which is why this year's theme is 'Hindsight is 2020.' I'm thrilled that close to a decade after starting the organization I've arrived at the place where I can dedicate myself to it full time.'
San Francisco International Arts Festival Publishes Schedule of Performances for THE PATH TO DEMOCRACY
February 01, 2019The San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) is pleased to reveal the full schedule of performances for the 2019 Festival that will run from May 23 - June 2 and have as a central theme The Path to Democracy. As the dark clouds of nationalism and fascism re-assert themselves on the global stage, SFIAF looks at some of the struggles for democracy past and present and how they manifest themselves in different cultures. The Festival will take place at, and in partnership with, the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.
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A Strange Loop
American Conservatory Theater (4/18 - 5/12)
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Ray of Light Theatre (6/1 - 6/23) LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN NEW MUSICAL | |
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The Foreigner
Bay Area Stage (4/19 - 5/5) | |
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Magician Jay Alexander
Marrakech Magic Theater (2/25 - 12/31) | |
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Ryan Bancroft & Joshua Bell
Davies Symphony Hall (5/16 - 5/18) | |
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The Tutor
New Conservatory Theatre Center - Walker Theatre (4/5 - 4/28) | |
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SJSU Department of Film and Theatre Presents: 1984
Hammer Theatre Center (5/3 - 5/11) | |
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The Marsh San Francisco presents “The Waiting Period”
The Marsh San Francisco (6/9 - 6/9) | |
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The Marsh San Francisco presents “Extreme Acts”
The Marsh San Francisco (5/11 - 6/2) | |
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