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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'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...
View ArticlePower 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...
View ArticleIndependence/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,...
View ArticleIndependence 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....
View ArticleUnfinished 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...
View ArticleLabors 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...
View ArticleLabors 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...
View ArticleBaring 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...
View ArticleElaborating 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...
View ArticleSublime 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...
View ArticleSublime 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...
View ArticleFall 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...
View ArticleMass. 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...
View ArticleSelf 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...
View ArticleSelf 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...
View ArticleGovernment 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCul 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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