All that Glitters during the Cold: ‘Utopia’ World Premiere at Cutting Ball and ‘Holiday Sauce… PANDEMIC!’
Before Christmas touches town, I look back on two flamboyant shows by Cutting Ball and Taylor Mac.
We All Fall Down: ‘Free for All’ World Premiere at Cutting Ball
Megan Cohen turns ‘Miss Julie’ into a pre-apocalyptic farce of class warfare and fine dining.
School’s Out Forever: ‘Exit Strategy’ Bay Area premiere at Aurora Theatre
Aurora’s new season opens with an emotional new piece that only occasionally feels off.
The Shoddy Politic: ‘Kings’ at Shotgun Players
Shotgun’s latest production is an ultimately toothless “satire” of politics in the AOC era.
We’re All Screwed: ‘La Ronde’ at Cutting Ball
Arthur Schnitzler’s classic sexual vignette piece is resurrected by Cutting Ball in a VERY intimate production.
Oleanna 2.0: ‘Actually’ Bay Area premiere at the Aurora
Aurora scores a hit with Anna Ziegler’s incendiary piece about sexual consent and identity politics.
A Brief Parable: Young Jean Lee’s ‘Church’ at Crowded Fire
Young Jean Lee’s latest is only an hour, but it manages to dismantle a centuries of popular opinions about Christianity.
‘In Braunau’ is Out of Ideas: World Premiere (Sandbox) production by SF Playhouse
This would-be satire of White progressivism soon devolves into a poor treatise on the evils of fascism.
Only ‘You’: Crowded Fire’s ‘You for Me for You’
A uniquely Asian-American immigrant tale is the focus Crowded Fire’s touching new production.
