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Tour of duty

Black Watch shows, tells about young men drawn to warThe Scottish play: 'Black Watch'PHOTO BY SCOTT SUCHMANarts@sfbg.comTHEATER Audience members entering the drill court of the Mission Armory and...

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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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Power plays

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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Independence/Movement: extended interview with Oakland's SALTA dance collective

Note: this is an extended version of an article in this week'sGuardian.The crowd outside the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland was hopping. Fidgeting, really. Almost imperceptibly at first,...

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Independence movement

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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Unfinished business

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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Labors of love

Teatro Jornalero sin Fronteras at the Imaginists base in Santa Rosa.Photo courtesy of the ImaginistsLos Angeles's Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras makes common cause with Santa Rosa's the...

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Labors of love

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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Baring all: Red Hots Burlesque presents “Burlesque and WHY”

Red Hots Burlesque— the longest running queer burlesque show in the country, according to founder and producer Dottie Lux — moves out of the bars and into the theater with Burlesque and WHY(The Naked...

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Elaborating tradition

CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora explores the state (and states) of ethnic dance in the Bay AreaChoreography by Byb Chanel BibenePHOTO BY LYNNE FRIEDTHEATERThe idea of traditional dance as somehow...

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Sublime nonsense

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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Sublime nonsense: extended interview with Wet the Hippo's John Gilkey

Gabe McKinney, Alec Jones-Trujillo, Don Colliver, Tim Reid, and John Gilkey in Wet the Hippo.Photo by Jean-Louis DarvilleNote: this is an extended version of an interview that appears in this week's...

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Fall forward

Stage highlights of the coming seasonSTUDIUM THEATRALNEKAZIK ROLBIECKIarts@sfbg.comFALL ARTS Kings and queens, Brits and brats, music and mayhem, puppets and oppressors—the stage brims with them this...

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Mass. transit

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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Self service: SF Fringe Festival tells it like it is

Ryan Hayes, Meg Hurtado, Margery Fairchild, and Nathan Tucker in "StormStressLenz" at the SF Fringe FestivalPhoto by Serena MorelliNote: this is an extended version of an article that appears in this...

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Self service

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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Government smackdown

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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The art of dialogue

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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The horror

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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Cul de sac

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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