578 stories from Theatre Bay Area
By Nicole Gluckstern Wonderheads. Photo: Sean DenniePeople whose knowledge of the anything-goes theatre festival known as Fringe begins and ends with San Francisco and Edinburgh m…
By Velina Brown Q: Look, I've been around a long time. My résumé is four pages long. I'm tired of having to prove myself over and over again. I just auditioned for a casting dir…
By Sam HurwittIt's strategic planning time again at Theatre Bay Area, and one of the things that keeps coming up is community. Editor-in-chief Sam HurwittTheatre Bay Area was crea…
Sam's PicksSan Francisco Fringe Festival Annette Roman in Animal Love: A Tragicomedy, part of the 2014 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Photo: Louis PépinExit TheatreSep. 5"20The u…
By Rotimi AgbabiakaA thrilling duet is underway in a Berkeley rehearsal space. Two performers match each other move for move, as arms entwine in tenuous embraces, bodies recoil from violent …
By Laura Brueckner Congratulations to Octavio Solis on winning the 2014 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Drama! The 70-year-old literary and human rights organization …
Carole Shorenstein Hays, the founder, president and co-owner of SHN, the lead commercial theatre producer in San Francisco, is no longer with the company, its CEO Greg Holland confirmed last…
By Lily JaniakCarole Shorenstein Hays, the founder, president and co-owner of SHN, the lead commercial theatre producer in San Francisco, is no longer with the company, its CEO Greg Holland …
By Sam Hurwitt Berkeley playwright and videogame developer Aaron Loeb is the author of several acclaimed full-length plays, including First Person Shooter and Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dan…
Welcome to "Ask the Captain," a column about finances for theatre artists, where questions sent in by readers like you are answered by our fabulous financial whiz, the Captain! (The Cap…
By Velina BrownQ: I am a 43-year-old actress who has been in the Bay Area theatre scene for more than 20 years. I have always dreamed of becoming Equity, but I get very discouraged at times.…
By Lily Janiak When Charlie, who performs in circus and a variety of other media, gave me a tour of his illegal live-work-performance space last winter, one of the first sights we vi…
By Melissa Hillman Finding the right piece can be one of the most stressful parts of a big audition. Often what works very well within the context of a full production won't serve you well a…
By Lily Janiak"So I love Shakespeare," says the crackerjack young director Dawn Monique Williams. "And I think I'm obsessed. Sometimes I think I'm alone in that obsession, but then I meet pe…
By Brad Erickson Here at Theatre Bay Area we are in the middle of a new strategic planning process, one that works differently than any we've done before. The initiative, being led by Jeann…
By Lily Janiak Recently I had the honor of serving on the panel "Critics and Playwrights: In it Together," which was hosted by 3Girls Theatre Company and moderated by one its resident p…
Interviewed by David Templeton Lesley Currier, managing director of Marin Shakespeare Company, grew up outside of Washington, DC. In 1989, with her husband Robert Currier, she tackled the d…
Text and photos by James NelsonThe mood was anything but somber last Tuesday night, as attendees packed into Intersection for the Arts for an open community discussion, the first of a series…
By Nirmala Nataraj Whether raiding our closets to excavate skeletons and prized possessions, or helming colossal site-specific works that interrogate our unconscious beliefs about home and …
By Velina Brown Q: I am a young, white woman in my 20s and I am a feminist. My problem is I am mostly cast as victims of some sort"domestic violence, rape, etc. For some reason this is how …
Happy summer! We hope you're seeing tons of great theatre. Here are the shows in July and August that our editors especially recommend!Sam's PicksRipple EffectSan Francisco Mime TroupeJul. 4…
Welcome to "Ask the Captain," a column about finances for theatre artists, where questions sent in by readers like you are answered by our fabulous financial whiz, the Captain! (T…
By Sam HurwittWhen San Francisco Playhouse launched its second-stage new works series, the Sandbox, five years ago, these small-scale world premieres were understood to be essentially …
By Rotimi Agbabiaka If Pride Month is the time to celebrate the past year's queer accomplishments, then this upcoming Pride should be extra festive. It's been a great year for queer vi…
Interview by Laura Brueckner Just looking at Marc Bamuthi Joseph's resume i…
