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by Linda Hodges - April 01, 2026

It's easy to see why Beetlejuice, the screen-to-stage adaptation of Tim Burton's beloved 1998 cult-classic film, earned eight 2019 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. It is to die for. ...

by Steve Murray - March 30, 2026

There are many types of great theatre- light, cheerful, romantic, uplifting, silly, classic. Z Spaces’ co-production of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class is unflinchingly dark, emotionally devastating and a tough watch – but it is great theatre, a timely cautionary tale of evil startingly conce...

by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026

I admit I’ve never seen Stephen Sondhiem’s Assassins, nor ever heard the score or read the synopsis. A flop in 1990, the 2004 revival won five Tony awards, and it’s been in theatre rotations since, often causing controversy for its raw language and unsavory content. A play from the perspective...

by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026

The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the world's first openly gay chorus, continues it’s forty-eighth season with a concert both cheerful and deeply emotional celebrating the music and events of the 1980’s. For the LGBT community, the 80’s was the apocalypse incarnate - a community devastate...

by Jim Munson - March 22, 2026

What did our critic think of DON QUIXOTE at San Francisco Ballet?...

by Steve Murray - March 21, 2026

What did our critic think of AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH LUCIE ARNAZ at Feinstein's At The Nikko?...

by Steve Murray - March 19, 2026

There is plenty of interesting ideas in Eisa Davis’ into the lives of four women, students in a summer music program. The need for arts education drives these girls, partly for parity in a male dominated world of music and secondly as a respite from the dramas of their individual lives....

by Steve Murray - March 15, 2026

What did our critic think of GODS & MONSTERS at New Conservatory Theatre Center?...

by Steve Murray - March 14, 2026

What did our critic think of SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at Hillbarn Theatre?...

by Steve Murray - March 09, 2026

TheatreWorks and director Jeffrey Lo must have been licking their chops with the chance to produce the regional premiere of Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer Prize winning Primary Trust. In Lo’s skillful hands, and with a seasoned powerful cast, Primary Trust is a winner – both deeply emotional and full ...