by Steve Murray - February 25, 2026
The Paranormal Activity franchise (seven films from 2007 -21), while critically panned, proved people love to be scared, then laugh at their foolishness. Now a theatre piece, the crowd anticipated the expected thrills of supernatural goings on in a live experience....
by Steve Murray - February 14, 2026
What did our critic think of THE NOTEBOOK at Orpheum Theatre?...
by Steve Murray - February 12, 2026
What did our critic think of M. BUTTERFLY at SF Playhouse?...
by Kelly Rogers Flynt - February 11, 2026
IMPROBABLE FICTION at Masquers Playhouse is a tale of two parts. Don’t let the easy-going first half lull you into complacency. When the action hits, it comes in quick succession with quippy lines, funny costumes, over the top dramatics, and plenty of belly laughs....
by Steve Murray - February 04, 2026
Change is hard, we all know that. We get stuck in patterns and the comfortable, even if that inertia is destructive. Watching Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard, brilliantly directed by American Conservatory Theatre Artistic Director emerita Carey Perloff and starring an all-star cast of local legends, will...
by Steve Murray - February 02, 2026
Heidi Schreck’s award-winning 2019 homage to the US Constitution couldn’t be timelier than at this moment of political crisis in America. Written as a remembrance of her 15-year-old self as a debater in love with the constitution, the present-day Heidi narrates the play which links her family’...
by Linda Hodges - January 28, 2026
Opening Night of The Wiz at Broadway San Jose was dazzling, the kind of evening that reminds you why musical theater, at its best, feels communal, electric, and alive. From the moment the curtain rose, the production burst onto the stage with color, rhythm, and unmistakable joy, offering a vibrant a...
by Jim Munson - January 26, 2026
San Francisco Ballet is kicking off its 2026 repertory season with the massively ambitious world premiere of Yuri Possokhov’s Eugene Onegin. It’s a tall order to create a full-length contemporary classical ballet to compete with the warhorses we’ve seen a zillion times, but SFB has given it th...
by Steve Murray - January 16, 2026
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are on a high recently, with their long- running animated series South Park skewering the present administration in their inimitable profane and darkly surreal style. 2011’s The Book of Mormon brought their irreverent humor to Broadway in what at the time seemed shocking...
by Linda Hodges - January 05, 2026
Dog Man: The Musical fetches laughs, heart, and legit Broadway-level craft in a show that never talks down to its audience. Read our review here!...
Past Shows
This dramatic comedy by Phaedra Tillery-Boughton reveals the hard work behind ‘black girl magic' as it follows three best friends in their 40s, through life-changing...
In Cathy Midori Stonie's play In The Shadow of Mt. Fuji, Isamu is an embittered and lonely middle-aged man with no future. His overbearing mother's...
Folk tales say that everyone has a soul mate. Some tales go on to state that you meet your soul mate again in the afterlife....
In Elizabeth Flanagan’s horror play, There’s Something Wrong in There, Lane is searching for her half-brother, Ash who has gone missing, or so everyone says. Lane...
A suicidal Aphrodite encounters a life-loving Narcissus eager to escape his stony fate. A nymph regrets her greatest wish. A young girl tries to escape...
THE FALL is a vital and frank collaborative piece of workshop theatre devised by the original cast. When the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was...
Things don’t get easier with age, especially when you’re bisexual and it comes to love, marriage and monsters from your past. How do you let...
Two years into the global COVID-19 pandemic, four individuals have navigated loneliness, intimacy and romance all while trying to stay healthy and “emotionally stable”, whatever...
The Ball Biddies are ready to play ball and break hearts. This boisterous group of older gay women play a mean game of softball as...
This dramatic comedy reveals the hard work behind ‘black girl magic', as it follows three best friends in their 40s, through life -changing obstacles that...
La Mamá Chingona is a play centering Marcia, a Chicana in pursuit of motherhood. Marcia explores her touchstone memories and how she's landed in her...
In Touched, by Susan Jane Harrison, the year is 2054. In a crowded City with a conversely dwindling birth rate, physical contact is now taboo.Pharmaceutical scientist...
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