Addressing the unspeakable
'Pageantry' highlights the reality between the linesFully armed: Justin Morrison's Weaponarts@sfbg.comDANCE Liz Tenuto and Justin Morrison — two dancer-choreographers who've made up for their limited...
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Theatre Rhinoceros presents the Bay Area premiere of Caryl Churchill's 'Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?'Rudy Guerrero and Sam Cohen in Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?PHOTO BY KENT...
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High points along the trail of a Russian theater excursionA crackin' good 'Hamlet'arts@sfbg.comTHEATER Emerald green rooftops and gold domes enliven the skyline of Omsk, a provincial city and former...
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Oakland's SALTA collective plans to be 'always looking for a space'A scene from a SALTA productionarts@sfbg.comTHEATER/DANCE The crowd outside the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland was hopping....
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UK and SF groups partner on performance-makingEye, eye: costumed University of Chichester student Darren PurnellCOURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTERTHEATER About two years ago, a small band of Brits...
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Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras makes common cause with the ImaginistsTeatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras in Santa RosaPHOTO COURTESY OF THE IMAGINISTSarts@sfbg.comTHEATER A white passenger van pulls to the...
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With Wet the Hippo, big-top veteran John Gilkey and associates explore the big bottomCirque du berserk: Wet the HippoPHOTO BY JEAN-LOUIS DARVILLEarts@sfbg.comTHEATER The sets are gone, and the...
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FALL ARTS: THEATER Onstage highlights of the coming seasonSTUDIUM THEATRALNEKAZIK ROLBIECKIarts@sfbg.comFALL ARTS Kings and queens, Brits and brats, music and mayhem, puppets and oppressors—the stage...
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FALL ARTS: STAGE Anything is possible at the SF Fringe FestivalI, pad: Cara Rose DiFabio in "After the Tone"ALLISON ALLBEEarts@sfbg.comTHEATER For fans of experimental performance, there's nothing...
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Class and solidarity are a makeshift matter in David Lindsay-Abaire's Good PeopleAnne Darragh, Amy Resnick, and Jamie Jones in Good PeoplePHOTO BY ED SMITHarts@sfbg.comTHEATER Marin Theatre Company's...
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SF Fringe Festival tells it like it is with random tales from the service sector and beyondFish-girlPHOTO BY SERENA MORELLITHEATER Sitting in the Exit Café with a can of Guinness and the San Francisco...
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SF Opera mounts 'Dolores Claiborne'marke@sfbg.comSTAGE Oh, the drama. Three weeks before Dolores Claiborne— the 1992 Stephen King thriller transformed by composer Tobias Picker and librettist JD...
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The Taming hits below the Beltway but stays shy of a knockoutSparkle truth to power: The TamingPHOTO BY PARK HANarts@sfbg.comTHEATER The premise of Bay Area playwright Lauren Gunderson's latest, The...
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Voices and impressions from Poland's Dialog Festival A scene from Sarah Kane's Cleansed as staged in Wroclaw, Polandarts@sfbg.comTHEATER Maybe there's no better way to grasp your own time and place...
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Lightening up the darkness in 'Underneath the Lintel' and 'Grand Guignol'David Strathairn in solo drama Underneath the LintelPHOTO BY KEVIN BERNEarts@sfbg.comTHEATER Just last night a cordial campfire...
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Familiar narrative tropes foreshorten Campo Santo's 'Alleluia, the Road'Alleluia, the RoadPHOTO BY JAY YAMADAarts@sfbg.comTwo mothers are coping with grief — and becoming friends — in a room at a...
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Margo Hall and Marcus Shelby craft a musical memoir in 'Be Bop Baby'Margo Hall and Marcus Shelby perform in 'Be Bop Baby'PHOTO BY CHRIS ALONGIarts@sfbg.comTHEATER Forgetting can be a key to...
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Kneehigh's comic-romantic 'Tristan & Yseult' is high-flying theater for the massesTristan & YseultPHOTO BY STEVE TANNERarts@sfbg.comTHEATER Crowd-pleasing can sometimes sound like a put-down —...
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Reading by moonlight with Nicole Kidman Is Fucking Gorgeous"We are students of creativity and magic."arts@sfbg.comTHEATER We meet above the waterfall in Yerba Buena Gardens. It's cold, getting dark....
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THE YEAR IN THEATER: Highlights from 2013, on and off the boardsstrangers, babies at Shotgun PlayersPhoto by Gregg Le Blancarts@sfbg.comYEAR IN THEATER Before the holiday season crushes us in its...
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