578 stories from Theatre Bay Area
By Velina BrownQ: Just curious what you think about this: Over the years (and many, many productions) I've noticed that frequently directors tend to focus negatively on one person in the cas…
By Lily JaniakMost theatre people know too well how new play development typically works: A playwright submits a draft to a theatre company. The company takes the draft through a series of t…
By Laura BruecknerEnding an unprecedented 18-month vacancy at the top of the largest arts funding organization in the country, Dr. Jane Chu has been confirmed as chairman of the National End…
San Jose Repertory Theatre announced this morning that it ceased operation as of Monday, June 9, 2014. The 34-year-old non-profit theatre company will file for bankruptcy immediately. &…
By Rotimi AgbabiakaOne could say that San Francisco history literally unfolds before your eyes in the lobby of the Brava Theater Center. Recent renovations have stripped the paint from secti…
By Chad JonesWhen host Hugh Jackman kicks off this year's Tony Awards ceremony from Radio City Music Hall on June 8, we'll see a lively parade of what's happening on Broadway. But for those …
By Brad Erickson
California has a population of nearly 38 million people, with some 10,000 arts nonprofits. The Golden State is home to more artists than any other in the nati…
By Theatre Bay Area Staff  Â
On Thursday afternoon the board of directors of Intersection for the Arts announced a drastic restructuring for the 49-year-old arts and community develo…
By Lisa Drostova
Some of us slow down at 40, but Beach Blanket Babylon is still a mile-a-minute mashup of glittery costumes, elaborate, gravity-defying hats and clev…
By Velina Brown Q: I get that since I'm an actor it's important for me to have a picture. But I still don't understand why I need to spend so much money on it instead of just having a f…
Hello there, noble reader! We're rolling out a new web format for our bimonthly Editors' Picks: combining all three sets of Picks into one piece. Let us know how you like it!Sam's PicksDivaF…
By Robert AvilaDog-eared and offbeat and surprisingly green despite the ubiquitous construction sites of the current real estate boom, the rapidly expanding metropolis of Austin, Texas still…
By Sam Hurwitt
Hooboy, is there a lot of stuff in this magazine! In recent years the May/June magazine would have been our Youth Issue, but it was astutely pointed out t…
By Amy SmithThe first thing I noticed walking into the California Theatre's Market Street entrance was the theatre's original 1927 stagehouse rigging, which is prominently on display in the …
By Nirmala Nataraj
Seventeen-year-old Maurice Jones is on the stage, surrounded by his fellow ensemble members, who are all clad in white and approaching him with an air of …
By Brad Erickson, Executive Director
State of the Art: Towards an Aggressive Theatre
As I was preparing these remarks, it occurred to me that this was the …
By Velina Brown
Q: I've been with my agency for almost three years now, and I'm not very happy with it, but I don't know what to do about it. I like my agent …
By Kristin Brownstone "Imagine a camp where you have 150 best friends and everyone is an artist just like you. That's Young Actors' Theatre Camp," says camp director and cofound…
By Lily JaniakToday, Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces, or BAPAS, the searchable database of performing arts spaces, is making one of its most popular features free: calendar sync and availabi…
By Velina BrownQ: I have just begun going out on auditions. So far no callbacks, and I just haven't felt very good while doing them. I prepare, but there is something about the audition…
Theatre Bay Area is delighted to announce the genesis of a new series: "Ask the Captain," where our financial whiz (whose human alter ego isTom Swift, playwright and do-gooder at Financ…
By Theatre Bay Area Staff
What do you get when you combine a French director, a Pina
Bausch dancer, local theatre troupes FoolsFury and Inferno and…a high school?
It mig…
By Theatre Bay Area StaffSan Francisco's American Conservatory Theater announced earlier this week that it will begin partnering with Oakland's Mills College on a new theatre curriculum star…
By Sam Hurwitt BabaAlterTheaterApr. 2"27AlterTheater started its 10th season of plays in San Rafael storefronts in January with the premiere of a new work developed within …
By Lily Janiak Hundred Days
Z Space
Thru Apr. 6
Abigail Bengson's voice is like multiple voices. She bursts through registers in one song, dips into Norah Jones huskiness for…
