Christmas Movie Round-Up 2019
A Christmas screen-hop features Black Power, White romance, and Sci-Fi. Guess which one I loved?
Inside-Out: My 2019 in Bay Area Theatre
No “Best Of” yet, but here are some emotional ponderances on the decade-ending year that was.
Salvation at last: ‘Kill Move Paradise’ at Shotgun
Shotgun delivers one of the year’s best shows with James Ijames’ meditation on Black lives ended too soon.
The Sexy Salad Days: ‘Cabaret’ at SF Playhouse
The SF Playhouse’s great new revival is a reminder good times never last, no matter how good they are.
Happy if She were Nappy: Thoughts on Storm, the Greatest X-Man
When the MCU reboots the ‘X-Men’ film series, here’s the one change they NEED to make.
With Attitude: ‘Nigga-Roo’ at The EXIT
Dazié Grego-Sykes’ incendiary Fringe solo show gets a full staging (such as it is) at EXIT Stage Left.
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.
Failing Grade: ‘Transfers’ West Coast premiere at Crowded Fire
Lucy Thurber’s latest is the sort of ill-thought-out treatise on Affirmative Action you’d expect from Fox News.
From the Trailer to Ten Most Wanted: ‘A White Girl’s Guide to International Terrorism’ Sandbox Premiere by San Francisco Playhouse
SF Playhouse’s latest Sandbox show deftly flips the script on what America thinks “a terrorist SHOULD look like”.
Ebony Powers: ‘Manifesto’ at Brava
Rotimi Agbabiaka delivers another winning solo show satirizing race, sexuality, and hunger for fame.