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Nicholas Wardigo Skips through Queer Time by Robert M. Gardner We all wish that we could travel in time to relive parts of our lives differently. Rather than changing the whole world, we onl…
Millennial Notes Annie Elias Unleashes Tenderloin Force by Evelyn Arevalo & Carly Van Liere Cutting Ball Theatre starts their new season with a blast with "Prime Cuts" from their hit 201…
Irma Herrera's Success Celebrates Names & Identities by Cynthia K. Lopez In the U.S., why do we think it's okay to mangle a person's name or assign them an entirely new one, if the origi…
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Millennial Notes Rajiv Joseph Reveals Secrets in Student-Teacher Struggle by Nico Storrow Bread & Butter Theatre's "The North Pool" combines great acting with power dynamics, race, and s…
Millennial Notes Robert Askins' Obscene Puppet Sabotages the Church by Tyler Jeffreys Altarena Playhouse's "Hand to God" magnifies the age-old philosophical question: What is right and wrong…
World Class Musical Shows Black & Irish Lives Matter by Jennifer Ann Charron It's rare to witness a momentous new musical. Â My shoulders clench and my jaw drops, like a dumb-struck ch…
Sankoff & Hein Offer Hope & Hospitality for ALL by Rachel Norby & Barry David Horwitz With Celtic overtones and intriguingly accented songs, the driving beat of "Welcome to the R…
Millennial Notes Thornton Wilder Imagines Hilarious Apocalypse by Tyler Jeffreys If the audience is laughing…they're listening.    "V. Cate (playwright) You've heard that laug…
Tom Stoppard Plants Modern Mirror in Romantic Garden by Joanna G. Harris & Barry David Horwitz Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," wittily directed by Patrick Dooley, pits history against fantasy,…
Bruce Coughran Convokes Three Wise Brits & the Big Bang by Barry David Horwitz Listen closely and you can hear the rumble of Stephen Hawking's Big Bang working its way through the univer…
Millennial Notes Nick Ishimaru Switches Up Our Dickens' Lens by Carly Van Liere We've seen A Christmas Carol a million times. On big stages like ACT's, in movies and theaters, on TV Christma…
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul Make Music for Harsh Times by Rachel Norby and Barry David Horwitz The plot of "Dear Evan Hansen" could be a teenie bopper movie: boy makes up story, the lies sp…
Jake Heggie's Feel-Good Opera Packs a Lesson by Jeff Dunn Fine singing, a thin adaptation, tune-starved but inoffensive music, and an awkward set characterize San Francisco Opera's third del…
Millennial Notes Charles Dickens' Magical World Soars to Spectacular Success by Rachel Norby A Christmas Carol is everyone's favorite holiday tradition. Charles Dickens' classic Christmas ta…
Gunderson & Melcon's Comedy Transfigures Pride & Prejudice  by Barry David Horwitz In this sequel to Pride and Prejudice, the clever playwrights take us downstairs into the vast …
When we can keep up with them, the characters dazzle with their wit. They recite poetry. They ponder, to nihilistic ends, Newtonian determinism, the new science of thermodynamics, and the ma…
Jon Tracy Premieres Prophetic Youth Project by Maya Rath and Barry David Horwitz When we walk into Live Oak Theatre, it looks like a construction site. We see walls lined with giant plastic …
Lopez & Marx's Adult Sesame Street Meets Queer Musical by Kim Waldron "I love the lively ones," said my friend, after seeing "Avenue Q."Â She's right. Spirited and profane, with smart…
Millennial Notes Max Tachis, Jeffrey Lo Delight in Holiday Shenanigans  by Evelyn Arevalo What better way to finish off the year than treating yourself to Joe Mantello's dramatization of…
Millennial Notes Sholeh Wolpé Transforms Church into Spiritual Nest by Carly Van Liere After filing up the long narrow staircase into the second floor aerie of the semi-abandoned Oakland ch…
Lindsay-Abaire Infuses Senior Living with New Life  by Rachel Norby & Barry David Horwitz "Ripcord" by David Lindsay-Abaire tells the story of two women sharing a room in a senior liv…
Gale Childs Daly Delivers Hope of Resurrection from Chaos by Jennifer Ann Charron Most of us are familiar with Great Expectations─Charles Dickens' Victorian novel about a boy who sell…
Millennial Notes Chuck Nevius, Chron Reporter, Celebrates Captivating Stories by Jordan Freed Chuck (C.W.) Nevius has been writing news and sports stories for 40 years at the San Francisco C…
Nico Storrow is originally from Southern California and moved to the Bay Area in 2016 to start a graduate program in counseling with a special interest in gender/queer identity, adolescents,…