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Yet its clear-eyed portrayal of a factory-town population whose factories are shuttering stirred the \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> to label it “the first theatrical landmark of the \u003cem>Trump era.” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-960x641.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-375x251.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia (Tonye Patano) and Tracey (Lise Bruneau) argue at the bar as Stan (Rod Gnapp) looks on. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, two years into Trump’s presidency and with midterms looming on the horizon, \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> has become a timely (and timeless) ode to an American Dream-turned-nightmare, and to the struggles of a community poor in options but rich in spirit. As it is, Reading still lives with the real-life impact of the fictionalized events depicted onstage at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pulling no punches, \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em>, directed by Magic Theatre’s Loretta Greco, begins in 2008 in a stark room where African-American parole officer Evan (Adrian Roberts) is patiently grilling his petulant charge, Jason (David Darrow), his face obscured by a crude mass of neo-nazi tattoos and a very prominent black eye. After dismissing Jason, Evan meets with another agitated ex-con, Chris (Kadeem Ali Harris), who reveals that he’d run into Jason, a figure from his past, and wasn’t prepared for the memories raised by their accidental reunion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-1200x801.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-1920x1282.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-1180x788.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-960x641.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris (Kadeem Ali Harris) and Jason (David Darrow) have a beer at the bar. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quickly rolling back in time to get the rest of their story and that of the tight-knit community that raised them, much of \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> takes place in 2000, in a bar where Stan (Rod Gnapp), himself a former factory worker, presides over the taps. Serving as the sounding board for the floor crew of Olstead’s (a fictional steel-tubing plant inspired by Reading’s real-life Hoffmann Industries), Stan is privy not just to the day-to-day dramas of his regulars, but to an understanding of the economic and political long game that will soon tear their aspirations apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bar set, designed by Andrew Boyce, is detail-perfect, down to the mismatched stools and prepaid phone card billboard, and the equally attentive costuming by Ulises Alcala, lighting by Allen Lee Hughes, projections by Hana S. Kim and sound design by Jake Rodriguez give the production as strong a sense of time and place as the dated slang that punctuates Jason and Chris’ dialogue, and lines about NAFTA and George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tracey, Lise Bruneau gives a riveting performance of a woman whose life begins to unravel from the moment she dismisses Stan’s oracular forecast of the future of the factory line. (She also dismisses his flirtatious overtures.) Her bestie, Cynthia (Tonye Patano), serves as the perfect foil for Tracey’s tightly-wound personality. Her onstage manner is more even-keeled, (despite having been recently booked for disorderly conduct “in my own damn house”), and embodies the cautious optimism and determination of a person who’s finally daring to climb the ladder a little higher, a staple of the mythology of \u003cem>an\u003c/em> American Dream in which hard work and company loyalty is rewarded and respected. Sarah Nina Hayon as Jesse, the third in their trio, embodies the role of middle-aged barfly, replete with the poignant regrets of a person who let the notion of “possibility” melt away as soon as she began earning a steady paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-960x641.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-375x251.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar (Jed Parsario) and Stan (Rod Gnapp) discuss the implications of Oscar’s desire to break the picket line and work at Olstead’s. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason and Chris are Tracey and Cynthia’s sons. Through the course of the play, they come to their own brutal understanding of the ways in which their own possibilities have become illusions, occasionally helped in this understanding by Chris’ father Brucie (skillfully portrayed by \u003cspan class=\"st\">Chiké\u003c/span> Johnson), whose own downward spiral has been assisted by his struggles with addiction. Rounding out the storyline and the cast is Oscar (Jed Parsario), a somewhat sullen but ever-watchful Columbian-American busboy who’s been trying for a position at Olstead’s for two years. Blinded by their perceptions of the way things are “supposed” to be, the plant employees can’t accept that he may have just as much claim on the line as they do, even though, like them, he was born in Reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately it’s Oscar’s strategy of biding his time and waiting for opportunity that serves him best, though in a very unexpected way, and the play ends with his words and an act of personal compassion, leaving us to wrestle with the implications of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em>’s true strength lies in the vast reservoirs of empathy with which Nottage approaches and reveals each character, be it an ex-con with neo-nazi tattoos to a strike-breaking scab looking for a better paycheck, or a frustrated striker’s display of casual racism to a newly-minted supervisor forced to lock her own son out of the factory where they work together. The harder Nottage pushes her characters into uncomfortable moral positions, the more she allows their raw humanity to shine through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_Chike%CC%81Johnson_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris (Kadeem Ali Harris) and Brucie (Chiké Johnson) have a heart-to-heart in the bar. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Importantly, the play leaves the many questions it poses unanswered. How do we overcome those things that divide us to connect to what may unite us? What factors are most to blame for the erosion of the “American Dream?” What dreams can we collectively create to take its place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a playwright, Nottage is neither soothsayer nor financial consultant, but a skilled chronicler making visible our collective desires, rage, and shame. With \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em>, she dares us to reconnect to our common ground before it’s too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Sweat’ runs through Oct. 21 at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater. \u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1819_season/sweat.highResolutionDisplay.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After the 2016 election of Donald Trump, almost every week brought a new book regarding race, or class, or both, many focusing on the plight of the economically forgotten residents in “red” states—such as \u003cem>Hillbilly Elegy\u003c/em> by J.D. Vance, and \u003cem>Strangers in Their Own Land\u003c/em>, by Arlie Hochschild. And while those books captured many salient aspects of the slow erosion of dreams in devastated communities, none of them captured as fully nuanced a portrait of their crisis, generations in the making, as Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-winning play \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set in the depressed steel town of Reading, Pennsylvania—for a time the poorest in the nation—\u003cem>Sweat \u003c/em>is the culmination of many months of research: Nottage interviewed the residents of Reading, hanging out in their bars, observing their day-to-day reality. Originally commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for their American Revolution series, Nottage’s \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> takes place in 2000 and 2008, and debuted a full year before the 2016 election. Yet its clear-eyed portrayal of a factory-town population whose factories are shuttering stirred the \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> to label it “the first theatrical landmark of the \u003cem>Trump era.” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-960x641.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-375x251.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TonyePatano_LiseBruneau_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia (Tonye Patano) and Tracey (Lise Bruneau) argue at the bar as Stan (Rod Gnapp) looks on. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, two years into Trump’s presidency and with midterms looming on the horizon, \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> has become a timely (and timeless) ode to an American Dream-turned-nightmare, and to the struggles of a community poor in options but rich in spirit. As it is, Reading still lives with the real-life impact of the fictionalized events depicted onstage at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pulling no punches, \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em>, directed by Magic Theatre’s Loretta Greco, begins in 2008 in a stark room where African-American parole officer Evan (Adrian Roberts) is patiently grilling his petulant charge, Jason (David Darrow), his face obscured by a crude mass of neo-nazi tattoos and a very prominent black eye. After dismissing Jason, Evan meets with another agitated ex-con, Chris (Kadeem Ali Harris), who reveals that he’d run into Jason, a figure from his past, and wasn’t prepared for the memories raised by their accidental reunion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-1200x801.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-1920x1282.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-1180x788.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-960x641.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/ChrisKadeenAliHarris_JasonDavidDarrow_credit_KevinBerne.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris (Kadeem Ali Harris) and Jason (David Darrow) have a beer at the bar. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quickly rolling back in time to get the rest of their story and that of the tight-knit community that raised them, much of \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> takes place in 2000, in a bar where Stan (Rod Gnapp), himself a former factory worker, presides over the taps. Serving as the sounding board for the floor crew of Olstead’s (a fictional steel-tubing plant inspired by Reading’s real-life Hoffmann Industries), Stan is privy not just to the day-to-day dramas of his regulars, but to an understanding of the economic and political long game that will soon tear their aspirations apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bar set, designed by Andrew Boyce, is detail-perfect, down to the mismatched stools and prepaid phone card billboard, and the equally attentive costuming by Ulises Alcala, lighting by Allen Lee Hughes, projections by Hana S. Kim and sound design by Jake Rodriguez give the production as strong a sense of time and place as the dated slang that punctuates Jason and Chris’ dialogue, and lines about NAFTA and George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tracey, Lise Bruneau gives a riveting performance of a woman whose life begins to unravel from the moment she dismisses Stan’s oracular forecast of the future of the factory line. (She also dismisses his flirtatious overtures.) Her bestie, Cynthia (Tonye Patano), serves as the perfect foil for Tracey’s tightly-wound personality. Her onstage manner is more even-keeled, (despite having been recently booked for disorderly conduct “in my own damn house”), and embodies the cautious optimism and determination of a person who’s finally daring to climb the ladder a little higher, a staple of the mythology of \u003cem>an\u003c/em> American Dream in which hard work and company loyalty is rewarded and respected. Sarah Nina Hayon as Jesse, the third in their trio, embodies the role of middle-aged barfly, replete with the poignant regrets of a person who let the notion of “possibility” melt away as soon as she began earning a steady paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-960x641.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-375x251.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/JedParsario_RodGnapp_credit_KevinBerne.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar (Jed Parsario) and Stan (Rod Gnapp) discuss the implications of Oscar’s desire to break the picket line and work at Olstead’s. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason and Chris are Tracey and Cynthia’s sons. Through the course of the play, they come to their own brutal understanding of the ways in which their own possibilities have become illusions, occasionally helped in this understanding by Chris’ father Brucie (skillfully portrayed by \u003cspan class=\"st\">Chiké\u003c/span> Johnson), whose own downward spiral has been assisted by his struggles with addiction. Rounding out the storyline and the cast is Oscar (Jed Parsario), a somewhat sullen but ever-watchful Columbian-American busboy who’s been trying for a position at Olstead’s for two years. Blinded by their perceptions of the way things are “supposed” to be, the plant employees can’t accept that he may have just as much claim on the line as they do, even though, like them, he was born in Reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately it’s Oscar’s strategy of biding his time and waiting for opportunity that serves him best, though in a very unexpected way, and the play ends with his words and an act of personal compassion, leaving us to wrestle with the implications of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em>’s true strength lies in the vast reservoirs of empathy with which Nottage approaches and reveals each character, be it an ex-con with neo-nazi tattoos to a strike-breaking scab looking for a better paycheck, or a frustrated striker’s display of casual racism to a newly-minted supervisor forced to lock her own son out of the factory where they work together. The harder Nottage pushes her characters into uncomfortable moral positions, the more she allows their raw humanity to shine through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_Chike%CC%81Johnson_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/KadeemAliHarris_ChikéJohnson_credit_KevinBerne-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris (Kadeem Ali Harris) and Brucie (Chiké Johnson) have a heart-to-heart in the bar. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Importantly, the play leaves the many questions it poses unanswered. How do we overcome those things that divide us to connect to what may unite us? What factors are most to blame for the erosion of the “American Dream?” What dreams can we collectively create to take its place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a playwright, Nottage is neither soothsayer nor financial consultant, but a skilled chronicler making visible our collective desires, rage, and shame. With \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em>, she dares us to reconnect to our common ground before it’s too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Christmas might get most of the holiday-spectacle hype, but Halloween inspires far more creative performances. Looking to face your fears? Here’s a roundup of some of the Bay Area’s spookiest shows and activities outside of the usual haunted-house-pumpkin-patch-costume-contest circuit, ranging from campy to creepy to downright bloodcurdling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A performer at Terror Vault.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-768x493.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-375x241.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-520x334.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A performer at Terror Vault. \u003ccite>(Sloane Kanter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Terror Vault\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Old Mint, 88 Fifth St., San Francisco)\u003cbr>\nOct. 10–Nov. 3\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.intothedarksf.com/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leave it to legendary horror enthusiast and producer Joshua Grannell, a.k.a. Peaches Christ, to team with truly twisted talent for a haunted attraction that could literally only happen in San Francisco. Located in the historic Old San Francisco Mint, Terror Vault is an immersive theatrical experience lasting around 45 minutes long, featuring some of SF’s fiercest underground performers—and a narrative based partly in fact. Meanwhile, Dead Zone is a lighter and kid-friendly (ages 10+) game of zombie tag with a scavenger-hunt component. With production design by David Mazochi (David Flower Productions), scripting by Christ, and operations support by Non Plus Ultra, this collaborative spectacle will be a Halloween highlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-800x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-800x683.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-768x656.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-960x820.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-240x205.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-375x320.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-520x444.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master of Terrormonies, Sindie Chopper. \u003ccite>(Natalie Ashodian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Terror-rama III: Dead the Whole Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Awesome Theatre, Pianofight, 144 Taylor St., San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 12–27\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://awesometheatre.org/2018/04/30/terror-rama-iii-dead-the-whole-time/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sit in a dark room with a duet of diabolical new works: “My Cannibal Summer,” featuring a star-crossed Cannibal romance, and “The Suffered,” a ghost story, written by Awesome Theatre members Claire Rice and Colin Johnson, and hosted by Master of Terrormonies, Sindie Chopper. TERROR-RAMA is a biennial event, with the in-between year used for raw readings and focused play development, making Awesome Theatre’s contribution to the late-night, double feature undoubtedly worth the wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/journey_skyrim-with-player_credit_TomLowenthal-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/journey_skyrim-with-player_credit_TomLowenthal-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/journey_skyrim-with-player_credit_TomLowenthal-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/journey_skyrim-with-player_credit_TomLowenthal-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/journey_skyrim-with-player_credit_TomLowenthal-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/journey_skyrim-with-player_credit_TomLowenthal-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/journey_skyrim-with-player_credit_TomLowenthal-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/journey_skyrim-with-player_credit_TomLowenthal-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/journey_skyrim-with-player_credit_TomLowenthal.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Journey to the End of the Night players roaming the city. \u003ccite>(Tom Lowenthal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Journey to the End of the Night\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>UN Plaza, 355 McAllister St., San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 13, 2018, 5pm–10 pm\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-2018-san-francisco-tickets-48943121193\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, the ever-evolving Journey to the End of the Night has taken over the streets of San Francisco to reveal its hidden corners for legions of casual LARPers. This year’s fantastical journey takes the night sky as its muse, as participants assume the identities of the \u003cem>Nox Aeterna,\u003c/em> “a secretive sect of night worshippers.” Attendees roam from checkpoint to checkpoint, collecting stamps and avoiding capture by the nemesis “Sol Keepers,” while reveling in the imaginative mini-performances and game stations set up by volunteer creators along the way. It’s free to play, but pre-registration is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MysticMidway_MrNobodyAndAttendants_SkotKuiper.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Nobody and friends at Mystic Midway. \u003ccite>(Skot Kuiper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Mr. Nobody’s Mystic Midway\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Winchester Mystery House, 525 S. Winchester Blvd., San Jose\u003cbr>\nSelect dates through Oct. 31\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/249033399088576/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been waiting for the right time to avail yourself of the curiosities of the \u003ca href=\"https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/buy-tickets/\">Winchester Mystery House\u003c/a>, this guest attraction offers a perfect excuse. In addition to the regular offerings of the Mystery House, including the Hallowe’en Candlelight tour, October brings Mr. Nobody’s Mystic Midway, the latest “pop-up” performance by immersive theater company The Mystic Midway. Located in the gardens, this “twilight carnival” includes a variety show, midway games, an interactive quest component, and a chance to get your (mis)fortune told, with tokens purchased on \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/listing/630267636/mystic-midway-5-token-voucher\">etsy\u003c/a> or on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/NurseRatchet_credit_markjohnston-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/NurseRatchet_credit_markjohnston-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/NurseRatchet_credit_markjohnston-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/NurseRatchet_credit_markjohnston-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/NurseRatchet_credit_markjohnston-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/NurseRatchet_credit_markjohnston-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/NurseRatchet_credit_markjohnston-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/NurseRatchet_credit_markjohnston-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/NurseRatchet_credit_markjohnston.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nurse Ratchet ratchets up the horror at Bloodslam. \u003ccite>(Mark Johnston)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Bloodslam\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Oakland Metro Operahouse, 22 Second St., Oakland\u003cbr>\nOct. 19\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.birdswillfall.com/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps \u003cem>the\u003c/em> bloodiest and bawdiest ticket in town, theatrical wrestling sensation Hoodslam brings back Bloodslam—a horror homage—to the ring at the Oakland Metro. Join Hoodslam favorites (not confirmed but likely: Nurse Ratchet, Drugs Bunny, Brittany Wonder, and El Chupacabra) plus Broseph Joe Brody as ring announcer for a three-act blood brawl of monstrous proportions. Who will crawl out of the ring, or for that matter, the venue, alive? Pro tip: don’t wear your newest threads, and, as always, “\u003ca href=\"https://brownbutter-wrestling.myshopify.com/products/hoodslam-dont-bring-your-fn-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">don’t bring your f’n kids\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/EVILDEADTHEMUSICAL_credit_EvanCardell-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/EVILDEADTHEMUSICAL_credit_EvanCardell-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/EVILDEADTHEMUSICAL_credit_EvanCardell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/EVILDEADTHEMUSICAL_credit_EvanCardell-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/EVILDEADTHEMUSICAL_credit_EvanCardell-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/EVILDEADTHEMUSICAL_credit_EvanCardell-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/EVILDEADTHEMUSICAL_credit_EvanCardell-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/EVILDEADTHEMUSICAL_credit_EvanCardell-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/EVILDEADTHEMUSICAL_credit_EvanCardell.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zanna Wei performs in Evil Dead the Musical in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Evan Cardell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Evil Dead the Musical’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>San Jose Stage Company, 490 S First St., San Jose\u003cbr>\nOct. 25-Nov. 4\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1731265276894113/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who could have guessed the 1981 low-budget cult classic \u003cem>The Evil Dead\u003c/em> would have such staying power? For Matty Gregg of Roshi Entertainment, the movie has long been a favorite, making ushering in a tech-savvy stage production of tongue-in-cheek musical homage, \u003cem>Evil Dead the Musical\u003c/em>, something of a mission. Combining cinematic visuals and a “virtual” set displayed on a giant 28’ x 8’ backdrop screen and 16’ x 16’ video floor, plus a requisite “splash zone” for the truly intrepid, this combination of movie magic and musical theater could be a Silicon Valley tradition in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 432px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13842072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/kat_credit_MikeLloydPhotography.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/kat_credit_MikeLloydPhotography.jpg 432w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/kat_credit_MikeLloydPhotography-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/kat_credit_MikeLloydPhotography-240x188.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/kat_credit_MikeLloydPhotography-375x294.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kat Robichaud is ready to show you a good time! \u003ccite>(Mike Lloyd Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Very Scary Misfit Cabaret\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Z Space, 450 Florida St., San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 25-Nov. 3\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.zspace.org/scarymisfit\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kat Robichaud is practically synonymous with spooky, sexy entertainment, as her latest Misfit Cabaret will prove. A variety showcase of music, circus, burlesque and blood held on the spacious mainstage of Z Space, Misfit Cabaret provides a Halloween refuge of camp and creepshow, featuring house band the Darling Misfits, musician Brenden Getzell, Marilyn Manson drag with Johnny Rockitt, machete burlesque with Mojo De Ville, aerials with Maia Adams and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 432px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13842071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Blind-Scream_credit_WillBucquoy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Blind-Scream_credit_WillBucquoy.jpeg 432w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Blind-Scream_credit_WillBucquoy-160x169.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Blind-Scream_credit_WillBucquoy-240x253.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Blind-Scream_credit_WillBucquoy-375x396.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are you ready to scream? \u003ccite>(Will Bucquoy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Blind Scream\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>SOMO Village, 500 Valley House Drive, Rohnert Park\u003cbr>\nOct. 6–31\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.blindscream.com/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We couldn’t resist including one “traditional” haunted house here, and Blind Scream, celebrating its ten-year anniversary, seems like the perfect choice. A joint venture between Drew Dominguez and Judy Groverman Walker, Blind Scream makes notable use of Dominguez’ long career (over 40 years) of building haunted houses all over California, including at Knotts Scary Farm. In addition to two original haunted spaces, Doc’s Horrortorium and Lil Horrus’s Fun House, Blind Scream also offers the ultimate in fear, called the Last Ride. For a mere five dollars, you can climb inside a coffin, shut the lid, and get a joyride to the cemetery where dirt is shoveled atop the coffin and you’re left (temporarily) for the worms. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Christmas might get most of the holiday-spectacle hype, but Halloween inspires far more creative performances. Looking to face your fears? Here’s a roundup of some of the Bay Area’s spookiest shows and activities outside of the usual haunted-house-pumpkin-patch-costume-contest circuit, ranging from campy to creepy to downright bloodcurdling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A performer at Terror Vault.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-768x493.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-375x241.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/TerrorVault.Bat_.SloaneKante-520x334.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A performer at Terror Vault. \u003ccite>(Sloane Kanter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Terror Vault\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Old Mint, 88 Fifth St., San Francisco)\u003cbr>\nOct. 10–Nov. 3\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.intothedarksf.com/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leave it to legendary horror enthusiast and producer Joshua Grannell, a.k.a. Peaches Christ, to team with truly twisted talent for a haunted attraction that could literally only happen in San Francisco. Located in the historic Old San Francisco Mint, Terror Vault is an immersive theatrical experience lasting around 45 minutes long, featuring some of SF’s fiercest underground performers—and a narrative based partly in fact. Meanwhile, Dead Zone is a lighter and kid-friendly (ages 10+) game of zombie tag with a scavenger-hunt component. With production design by David Mazochi (David Flower Productions), scripting by Christ, and operations support by Non Plus Ultra, this collaborative spectacle will be a Halloween highlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-800x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-800x683.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-768x656.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-960x820.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-240x205.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-375x320.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian-520x444.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Your-master-of-Terrormonies_SindieChopper_PhotoCredit_NatalieAshodian.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master of Terrormonies, Sindie Chopper. \u003ccite>(Natalie Ashodian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Terror-rama III: Dead the Whole Time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Awesome Theatre, Pianofight, 144 Taylor St., San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 12–27\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://awesometheatre.org/2018/04/30/terror-rama-iii-dead-the-whole-time/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sit in a dark room with a duet of diabolical new works: “My Cannibal Summer,” featuring a star-crossed Cannibal romance, and “The Suffered,” a ghost story, written by Awesome Theatre members Claire Rice and Colin Johnson, and hosted by Master of Terrormonies, Sindie Chopper. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, the ever-evolving Journey to the End of the Night has taken over the streets of San Francisco to reveal its hidden corners for legions of casual LARPers. This year’s fantastical journey takes the night sky as its muse, as participants assume the identities of the \u003cem>Nox Aeterna,\u003c/em> “a secretive sect of night worshippers.” Attendees roam from checkpoint to checkpoint, collecting stamps and avoiding capture by the nemesis “Sol Keepers,” while reveling in the imaginative mini-performances and game stations set up by volunteer creators along the way. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 2016, Ben Schatz was planning to retire from his drag a cappella group, The Kinsey Sicks, a “beauty shop quartet” that’s been putting on irreverent, politically charged shows since forming in San Francisco in the wake of the AIDS epidemic. Then, on a flight to a gig in Boise, Idaho, he connected to airplane wi-fi and found out that Donald Trump won the presidential election. Schatz quickly realized that his work was not over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a member of a community that was deemed at best dispensable—and a group who had prejudice against us exploited for political gains—I can’t separate myself from the others who are being viewed as dispensable and exploitable,” he says of Trump’s anti-immigrant and misogynistic rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-800x540.png\" alt=\"The Kinsey Sicks are Winnie (Nathan Marken), Rachel (Ben Schatz), Trixie (Jeff Manabat) and Trampolina (Spencer Brown). \" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-800x540.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-768x518.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-1020x688.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-1200x810.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-1180x796.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-960x648.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-240x162.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-375x253.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-520x351.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux.png 1337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kinsey Sicks are Winnie (Nathan Marken), Rachel (Ben Schatz), Trixie (Jeff Manabat) and Trampolina (Spencer Brown). \u003ccite>(Maurice Molyneaux )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kinseys emerged from a dark time in American history. Schatz, a graduate of Harvard Law School, moved to San Francisco in the ’80s to work in the emerging gay rights movement at a time when HIV and AIDS were ravaging the LGBTQ community. (In the 1990s, he served as the director of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association and sat on Bill Clinton’s Advisory Council on AIDS.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kinsey Sicks formed in 1993 after someone approached them at a Bette Milder concert, where they were dressed in drag as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfWc52smNs8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrews Sisters\u003c/a>, and invited them to perform at an upcoming event. All four friends happened to have musical theater experience and got to work that night. Since then, they’ve produced several critically acclaimed shows that fuse campy drag and a cappella singing, dirty jokes and political satire—including a hit Off-Broadway production in 2001. The group was so successful that it became Schatz’ full time career in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kinsey Sicks’ 25-year-anniversary show, \u003cem>Things You Shouldn’t Say\u003c/em>, comes to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinesmemorialtheatre.com/calendar/theatreevents/the-kinsey-sicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marines’ Memorial Theater\u003c/a> on Oct. 5-6. It’ll also likely be Schatz’ final performance in San Francisco; he says he’ll soon retire from his role as Rachel and continue behind the scenes as the group’s lead writer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always been a topical group,” says Schatz. “We’ve always mixed silliness and ridiculousness with social commentary. There’s a lot to laugh at, and there’s a lot to weep at. And we always have included both in the show. We take people a constantly unexpected journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/o7WdG299WQA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schatz’ work on the front lines of the gay rights movement continues inform the Kinsey’s biting satire in \u003cem>Things You Shouldn’t Say\u003c/em>, which contains political commentary about as subtle as Rachel’s glittery blue eye shadow. The poster for the show features the four queens ducking from Trump as a hurling, orange comet, and throughout the performance, they embrace the role of drag queens as irreverent truth-tellers who express what others are afraid to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drag is many different things, and we’ve been long associated with the more confrontational and challenging element of drag rather than the Disney-fied version you might see on something like \u003cem>RuPaul’s Drag Race\u003c/em>,” Schatz says. “We got some things to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “The Trump Medley” from \u003cem>Things You Shouldn’t Say\u003c/em>, for instance, Trampolina (Spencer Brown) sings to the tune of \u003cem>The Addams Family\u003c/em> theme song, “His house is a museum / To his narcissis-eum / A Nazi’s carpe diem!” In the show’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JMyLgLgQ0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">titular tune\u003c/a>, the Kinseys lampoon the hypocrisy of various members of society, not least politicians: “I’ll send your kind into war / I just screwed an intern on the floor / I have no idea what I voted for,” sings Winnie (Nathan Marken).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our favorite saying is ‘no refunds,'” says Schatz of those who come to a Kinsey Sicks show expecting Cher impersonations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/qnEHzeN0kHI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond its bouffants and Trump jokes, \u003cem>Things You Shouldn’t Say \u003c/em>hits some raw, emotional points, including Schatz’ monologue, “We Are Not the Ones Who Should be Ashamed.” In hushed tones, he wistfully recalls the surreal experience of watching gay men die of AIDS in San Francisco while mainstream media and politicians ignored the epidemic, seguing into a powerful call to take action in today’s political moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friends Schatz lost to AIDS and HIV (including two original Kinsey Sicks members) continue to give him purpose as an artist. “I just don’t see art being in a vacuum; art exists in the world,” says Schatz. “And there are tons of dead gay men who would’ve been amazing artists if they had been allowed to survive if the government gave a crap about the AIDS crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of his own longevity, he reflects, “To be able to have had a 25 year career of politically controversial, challenging, provocative art is an incredible privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13835025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-768x75.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-375x37.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-520x51.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThe Kinsey Sicks’\u003c/em> Things You Shouldn’t Say \u003cem>is on view at Marines’ Memorial Theater on Oct. 5-6. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinesmemorialtheatre.com/calendar/theatreevents/the-kinsey-sicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2016, Ben Schatz was planning to retire from his drag a cappella group, The Kinsey Sicks, a “beauty shop quartet” that’s been putting on irreverent, politically charged shows since forming in San Francisco in the wake of the AIDS epidemic. Then, on a flight to a gig in Boise, Idaho, he connected to airplane wi-fi and found out that Donald Trump won the presidential election. Schatz quickly realized that his work was not over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a member of a community that was deemed at best dispensable—and a group who had prejudice against us exploited for political gains—I can’t separate myself from the others who are being viewed as dispensable and exploitable,” he says of Trump’s anti-immigrant and misogynistic rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-800x540.png\" alt=\"The Kinsey Sicks are Winnie (Nathan Marken), Rachel (Ben Schatz), Trixie (Jeff Manabat) and Trampolina (Spencer Brown). \" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-800x540.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-768x518.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-1020x688.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-1200x810.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-1180x796.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-960x648.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-240x162.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-375x253.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux-520x351.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ensemble_st_MMolyneaux.png 1337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kinsey Sicks are Winnie (Nathan Marken), Rachel (Ben Schatz), Trixie (Jeff Manabat) and Trampolina (Spencer Brown). \u003ccite>(Maurice Molyneaux )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kinseys emerged from a dark time in American history. Schatz, a graduate of Harvard Law School, moved to San Francisco in the ’80s to work in the emerging gay rights movement at a time when HIV and AIDS were ravaging the LGBTQ community. (In the 1990s, he served as the director of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association and sat on Bill Clinton’s Advisory Council on AIDS.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kinsey Sicks formed in 1993 after someone approached them at a Bette Milder concert, where they were dressed in drag as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfWc52smNs8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrews Sisters\u003c/a>, and invited them to perform at an upcoming event. All four friends happened to have musical theater experience and got to work that night. Since then, they’ve produced several critically acclaimed shows that fuse campy drag and a cappella singing, dirty jokes and political satire—including a hit Off-Broadway production in 2001. The group was so successful that it became Schatz’ full time career in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kinsey Sicks’ 25-year-anniversary show, \u003cem>Things You Shouldn’t Say\u003c/em>, comes to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinesmemorialtheatre.com/calendar/theatreevents/the-kinsey-sicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marines’ Memorial Theater\u003c/a> on Oct. 5-6. It’ll also likely be Schatz’ final performance in San Francisco; he says he’ll soon retire from his role as Rachel and continue behind the scenes as the group’s lead writer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always been a topical group,” says Schatz. “We’ve always mixed silliness and ridiculousness with social commentary. There’s a lot to laugh at, and there’s a lot to weep at. And we always have included both in the show. We take people a constantly unexpected journey.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/o7WdG299WQA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/o7WdG299WQA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Schatz’ work on the front lines of the gay rights movement continues inform the Kinsey’s biting satire in \u003cem>Things You Shouldn’t Say\u003c/em>, which contains political commentary about as subtle as Rachel’s glittery blue eye shadow. The poster for the show features the four queens ducking from Trump as a hurling, orange comet, and throughout the performance, they embrace the role of drag queens as irreverent truth-tellers who express what others are afraid to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drag is many different things, and we’ve been long associated with the more confrontational and challenging element of drag rather than the Disney-fied version you might see on something like \u003cem>RuPaul’s Drag Race\u003c/em>,” Schatz says. “We got some things to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “The Trump Medley” from \u003cem>Things You Shouldn’t Say\u003c/em>, for instance, Trampolina (Spencer Brown) sings to the tune of \u003cem>The Addams Family\u003c/em> theme song, “His house is a museum / To his narcissis-eum / A Nazi’s carpe diem!” In the show’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JMyLgLgQ0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">titular tune\u003c/a>, the Kinseys lampoon the hypocrisy of various members of society, not least politicians: “I’ll send your kind into war / I just screwed an intern on the floor / I have no idea what I voted for,” sings Winnie (Nathan Marken).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our favorite saying is ‘no refunds,'” says Schatz of those who come to a Kinsey Sicks show expecting Cher impersonations.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qnEHzeN0kHI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qnEHzeN0kHI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Beyond its bouffants and Trump jokes, \u003cem>Things You Shouldn’t Say \u003c/em>hits some raw, emotional points, including Schatz’ monologue, “We Are Not the Ones Who Should be Ashamed.” In hushed tones, he wistfully recalls the surreal experience of watching gay men die of AIDS in San Francisco while mainstream media and politicians ignored the epidemic, seguing into a powerful call to take action in today’s political moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friends Schatz lost to AIDS and HIV (including two original Kinsey Sicks members) continue to give him purpose as an artist. “I just don’t see art being in a vacuum; art exists in the world,” says Schatz. “And there are tons of dead gay men who would’ve been amazing artists if they had been allowed to survive if the government gave a crap about the AIDS crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of his own longevity, he reflects, “To be able to have had a 25 year career of politically controversial, challenging, provocative art is an incredible privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13835025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-768x75.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-375x37.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-520x51.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThe Kinsey Sicks’\u003c/em> Things You Shouldn’t Say \u003cem>is on view at Marines’ Memorial Theater on Oct. 5-6. 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"content": "\u003cp>Buffalo, New York is known as a theater town: a frequent stop on the way to or from Broadway due to its close proximity to New York City, and a city that maintains a strong season of homegrown shows. But Buffalo is also a “rust belt” city hit hard by the deindustrialization of the region. While it’s making a quiet comeback as a stronghold of entrepreneurship, its hard times won’t be forgotten anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pam MacKinnon, growing up from the age of 10 in Erie County, this combination of can-do tenacity and arts appreciation has been a constant in life since she was in junior high school, in Clarence, New York. When loss of funding caused her school’s drama club to disband, one of her classmates, Will Crosby, took the reins and started his own after-school theater across the street in a United Methodist Church, wrangling MacKinnon and other members of the defunct drama department to put on a season of shows on their own until they graduated to High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the first time MacKinnon, the new artistic director for American Conservatory Theater (ACT), found herself, in her words, the “beneficiary of someone else’s entrepreneurial spirit.” It wouldn’t be her last. After a stint in academia, studying for a PhD in Political Science she never received, MacKinnon moved to New York to pursue theater, becoming one of the first go-to directors of New York’s Clubbed Thumb and growing in reputation as a freelance director on and off Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among her achievements since are a Tony for her directing of \u003cem>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf\u003c/em>, an Obie for directing Bruce Norris’ \u003cem>Clybourne Park\u003c/em>, and helping usher the musical \u003cem>Amélie\u003c/em> to the Broadway stage. ACT will be her first permanent “artistic home,” as she calls it—though she’s currently wrapping up a pair of freelance projects, including the world premiere of Norris’ new play \u003cem>Downstate\u003c/em>, which opened at Steppenwolf Theatre on Sept. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation-.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer-winning playwright of ‘Sweat.’ \u003ccite>(John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the first mainstage production of MacKinnon’s inaugural season at ACT, Lynn Nottage’s \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> not only speaks to the issues of our day, but also with MacKinnon’s own background. Set in the union town of Reading, Pennsylvania, the Pulitzer-winning \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> explores labor issues, the forced decline of American manufacturing, racial identity, and how the personal and political intersect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although set in the early 2000s, the play’s combination of concerns is all too relevant to even the least politicized among us. It certainly feels relevant to MacKinnon, whose Buffalo roots and current union membership (she is the president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society) give \u003cem>Sweat \u003c/em>a personal resonance as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> is a future classic American play… that I think will be done 50 years from now,” MacKinnon says. “It tells a political story on such immediate personal terms that you can read it as an ‘American’ story, but also as a family story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-520x390.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ensemble cast of Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’ in rehearsal at American Conservatory Theater. \u003ccite>(Beryl Baker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking beyond the season opener, MacKinnon is eager to see which shows in the upcoming season will appeal to Bay Area audiences most. A robust lineup of what she calls “big American plays,” the season includes works by younger contemporary playwrights such as Jacklyn Backhaus (whose gender-swapping Manifest Destiny sendup \u003cem>Men in Boats\u003c/em> opens in October at the Strand) and San Francisco’s own Lauren Yee (whose basketball drama \u003cem>The Great Leap\u003c/em> hits the Geary Stage in March 2019).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even that classic of European absurdism, \u003cem>Rhinoceros\u003c/em>, scheduled for May and June of 2019, feels contextually very “American” to MacKinnon, with its “mob mentality” and “group of people…blindly participating in something that is ridiculous.” Her own directorial debut as ACT’s artistic director will be of Edward Albee’s \u003cem>Seascape\u003c/em> in January 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody said they felt that (the season) was lower-case ‘p’ political, but also playful. That those two things were in all the pieces,” she muses. “I also think the theme of transition is in all of them, which makes sense given that I personally exploded my own life, very happily, to move to San Francisco after 24 years in New York. So transition, exploration, and discovery is also in all of these pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that transition, MacKinnon is particularly excited about facilitating the multiple spaces of ACT, as well as the greater Bay Area theater community as a whole, to “be in conversation with each other.” On a basic level, that includes producing shows across ACT’s spaces that build on each other’s momentum, such as having Lauren Yee’s \u003cem>Hookman \u003c/em>performed in October by the Young Conservatory, anticipating the mainstage production of \u003cem>The Great Leap\u003c/em> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also includes reaching out to theaters and theater-makers in order to create larger frames for certain plays and playwrights. For example, inviting the Magic Theatre’s Loretta Greco to direct \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> creates an immediate bridge to that audience, followed by Greco and MacKinnon’s joint plan to produce two of Mfoniso Udofia’s plays in concert with each other: first \u003cem>Her Portmanteau\u003c/em>, at ACT in February 2019, followed a month later by \u003cem>In Old Age\u003c/em> at the Magic. As Parts Four and Five of Udofia’s ambitious nine-play “Ufot Cycle” (Parts One and Three played at the Magic in 2016), the back-to-back plays will hopefully inspire future collaborative productions on a Bay Area-wide scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-520x390.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ensemble cast of Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’ in rehearsal at American Conservatory Theater. \u003ccite>(Beryl Baker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One person MacKinnon is particularly excited to welcome to the Bay Area is Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s incoming artistic director (and former ACT associate artistic director) Johanna Pfaelzer, who will take the reins from Tony Taccone in September 2019. “She and I go way back,” MacKinnon says, “so I’m super excited about [the possibility of] having Berkeley Rep and ACT work in concert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in this, MacKinnon’s small-town roots and stick-to-it-ness shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m interested in conversations across spaces,” she emphasizes, “and I feel that San Francisco is very welcoming of that kind of stuff…and it’s a (tight-knit) enough community that we can work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Sweat’ runs through Oct. 21 at the Geary Theater in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1819_season/sweat.html\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Buffalo, New York is known as a theater town: a frequent stop on the way to or from Broadway due to its close proximity to New York City, and a city that maintains a strong season of homegrown shows. But Buffalo is also a “rust belt” city hit hard by the deindustrialization of the region. While it’s making a quiet comeback as a stronghold of entrepreneurship, its hard times won’t be forgotten anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pam MacKinnon, growing up from the age of 10 in Erie County, this combination of can-do tenacity and arts appreciation has been a constant in life since she was in junior high school, in Clarence, New York. When loss of funding caused her school’s drama club to disband, one of her classmates, Will Crosby, took the reins and started his own after-school theater across the street in a United Methodist Church, wrangling MacKinnon and other members of the defunct drama department to put on a season of shows on their own until they graduated to High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the first time MacKinnon, the new artistic director for American Conservatory Theater (ACT), found herself, in her words, the “beneficiary of someone else’s entrepreneurial spirit.” It wouldn’t be her last. After a stint in academia, studying for a PhD in Political Science she never received, MacKinnon moved to New York to pursue theater, becoming one of the first go-to directors of New York’s Clubbed Thumb and growing in reputation as a freelance director on and off Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among her achievements since are a Tony for her directing of \u003cem>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf\u003c/em>, an Obie for directing Bruce Norris’ \u003cem>Clybourne Park\u003c/em>, and helping usher the musical \u003cem>Amélie\u003c/em> to the Broadway stage. ACT will be her first permanent “artistic home,” as she calls it—though she’s currently wrapping up a pair of freelance projects, including the world premiere of Norris’ new play \u003cem>Downstate\u003c/em>, which opened at Steppenwolf Theatre on Sept. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation--520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/nottage_lynn_credit_John-D.-Catherine-T.-MacArthur-Foundation-.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer-winning playwright of ‘Sweat.’ \u003ccite>(John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the first mainstage production of MacKinnon’s inaugural season at ACT, Lynn Nottage’s \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> not only speaks to the issues of our day, but also with MacKinnon’s own background. Set in the union town of Reading, Pennsylvania, the Pulitzer-winning \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> explores labor issues, the forced decline of American manufacturing, racial identity, and how the personal and political intersect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although set in the early 2000s, the play’s combination of concerns is all too relevant to even the least politicized among us. It certainly feels relevant to MacKinnon, whose Buffalo roots and current union membership (she is the president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society) give \u003cem>Sweat \u003c/em>a personal resonance as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> is a future classic American play… that I think will be done 50 years from now,” MacKinnon says. “It tells a political story on such immediate personal terms that you can read it as an ‘American’ story, but also as a family story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker-520x390.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble1_credit_BerylBaker.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ensemble cast of Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’ in rehearsal at American Conservatory Theater. \u003ccite>(Beryl Baker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking beyond the season opener, MacKinnon is eager to see which shows in the upcoming season will appeal to Bay Area audiences most. A robust lineup of what she calls “big American plays,” the season includes works by younger contemporary playwrights such as Jacklyn Backhaus (whose gender-swapping Manifest Destiny sendup \u003cem>Men in Boats\u003c/em> opens in October at the Strand) and San Francisco’s own Lauren Yee (whose basketball drama \u003cem>The Great Leap\u003c/em> hits the Geary Stage in March 2019).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even that classic of European absurdism, \u003cem>Rhinoceros\u003c/em>, scheduled for May and June of 2019, feels contextually very “American” to MacKinnon, with its “mob mentality” and “group of people…blindly participating in something that is ridiculous.” Her own directorial debut as ACT’s artistic director will be of Edward Albee’s \u003cem>Seascape\u003c/em> in January 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody said they felt that (the season) was lower-case ‘p’ political, but also playful. That those two things were in all the pieces,” she muses. “I also think the theme of transition is in all of them, which makes sense given that I personally exploded my own life, very happily, to move to San Francisco after 24 years in New York. So transition, exploration, and discovery is also in all of these pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that transition, MacKinnon is particularly excited about facilitating the multiple spaces of ACT, as well as the greater Bay Area theater community as a whole, to “be in conversation with each other.” On a basic level, that includes producing shows across ACT’s spaces that build on each other’s momentum, such as having Lauren Yee’s \u003cem>Hookman \u003c/em>performed in October by the Young Conservatory, anticipating the mainstage production of \u003cem>The Great Leap\u003c/em> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also includes reaching out to theaters and theater-makers in order to create larger frames for certain plays and playwrights. For example, inviting the Magic Theatre’s Loretta Greco to direct \u003cem>Sweat\u003c/em> creates an immediate bridge to that audience, followed by Greco and MacKinnon’s joint plan to produce two of Mfoniso Udofia’s plays in concert with each other: first \u003cem>Her Portmanteau\u003c/em>, at ACT in February 2019, followed a month later by \u003cem>In Old Age\u003c/em> at the Magic. As Parts Four and Five of Udofia’s ambitious nine-play “Ufot Cycle” (Parts One and Three played at the Magic in 2016), the back-to-back plays will hopefully inspire future collaborative productions on a Bay Area-wide scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker-520x390.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SweatEnsemble2_credit_BerylBaker.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ensemble cast of Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’ in rehearsal at American Conservatory Theater. \u003ccite>(Beryl Baker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One person MacKinnon is particularly excited to welcome to the Bay Area is Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s incoming artistic director (and former ACT associate artistic director) Johanna Pfaelzer, who will take the reins from Tony Taccone in September 2019. “She and I go way back,” MacKinnon says, “so I’m super excited about [the possibility of] having Berkeley Rep and ACT work in concert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in this, MacKinnon’s small-town roots and stick-to-it-ness shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m interested in conversations across spaces,” she emphasizes, “and I feel that San Francisco is very welcoming of that kind of stuff…and it’s a (tight-knit) enough community that we can work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The genius of the plays of Young Jean Lee is that no matter what your personal opinion of a specific work is, it’s impossible to view one with indifference. It’s a rare playwright who can consider charged topics such as race (\u003cem>The Shipment\u003c/em>), gender privilege (\u003cem>Straight White Men\u003c/em>), and gender identity (\u003cem>Untitled Feminist Show\u003c/em>) and reveal them as fully nuanced topics with fully nuanced humans on either side of their inevitable ideological divide. A line or scene that may have one audience member nodding along in recognition may provoke a recoil of shock in another, but whatever their reaction, neither will walk away without a strong opinion of the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s public meditation on Christian faith, \u003cem>CHURCH\u003c/em>—currently produced by Crowded Fire, and directed by Mina Morita—is a brief slip of a play, clocking in at around 60 minutes. In concept, it portrays a much-abbreviated church service, one that’s over long before the congregation-audience can begin wriggling uncomfortably in their seats or looking longingly at the exits. The basic elements of a Sunday morning churchgoing—liturgical music, earnest sermonizing, a call to prayer—form the foundation of the performance, and it’s clearly a structure familiar to many audience members, with several spontaneously murmuring amen and offering grace at the appropriate times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Reverend José (Lawrence Radecker) explains it all in ‘CHURCH.’ \u003ccite>(Hillary Goidell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even for a staunch atheist with religion an integral but maddening part of the long-distant past, a condition I share with the playwright, there are moments in \u003cem>CHURCH\u003c/em> that resonate on a personal level. The opening monologue, performed in the dark by Reverend José (Lawrence Radecker), is a pointed observation of the all-too human condition of self-importance and half-hearted armchair activism, directed seemingly specifically to the skeptics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You claim to care about suffering in the world and take luxurious pleasure in raging against the perpetrators of that suffering,” he admonishes. “But this masturbation-rage helps nothing and no one.” I doubt I’m the only non-believer in the room who feels personally singled out by this merciless deconstruction of the well-intentioned path to hell. And I can’t deny that it’s a scripture I can subscribe to, right up until the moment he concludes with: “The day will come in which the Lord God Almighty comes in a shining blaze of glory, and the knowledge of your shallow heart will cause you to bite through your own tongue with grief,” and in a single sentence everything I might otherwise have agreed with is subverted by holy fear-mongering. It’s a subversion not at all uncommon in Lee’s confrontational aesthetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan María Don, Alison Whismore, and Nkechi Emeruwa as their Reverend selves in Crowded Fire’s production of ‘CHURCH.’ \u003ccite>(Hillary Goidell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other moments in the play appear tailored to resonate more with the true believers in the room, as a cluster of three female reverends join Radecker onstage, clad in playful floral prints (designed by Alice Ruiz), and offering the assembled congregation heartfelt smiles of welcome, as they take turns at the modest podium set centerstage. The Reverend Jordan (Jordan María Don) invites the audience to offer up prayer requests. The Reverend Nkechi (Nkechi Emeruwa) quotes from Hebrews as the audience murmurs along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But soon enough the play begins veering into the territory of the absurd. The Reverend Alison (Alison Whismore) smiles impishly as she confesses to all kinds of past perversions, her hair a beguiling Boticelli cascade. She’s followed by Reverend José who delivers another sermon, the main purpose of which seems to be equating the language of the faithful to a passionate torrent of Baroque gibberish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s at this point that my own objectivity gives way to the unmistakable sensation of being a bored 10-year-old surrounded by the righteous, surreptitiously kicking the pews and waiting for the final amens. Nothing about the Reverend José’s parable makes sense to me, presumably because it wasn’t written to make sense to \u003cem>anyone\u003c/em>, and herein lies the subversive power of Lee’s piece. No communal experience, she points out, even among the mostly like-minded, is the same for each participant. Through the medium of Reverend Jose’s tortured metaphors of tuna, cactus, and poison, Lee reminds us that we all take different parts of the experience into ourselves and make of it what we will. That’s life, and art, and yes, even religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-800x719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-800x719.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-768x690.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-960x863.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-240x216.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-375x337.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-520x467.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nkechi Emeruwa in a state of ecstatic dance in Crowded Fire’s ‘CHURCH.’ \u003ccite>(Adam Tolbert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More universally relatable are the moments where spoken expression gives way to music, as in a scene where the three female reverends begin to dance, and they abandon themselves to the physical ecstasy of it, eventually joined by Radecker. Without words they convey volumes of what it means to experience joy as communion. And when, in the final moments of the play, an entire choir invades the stage to raise their voices in song, their benign presence reminds the audience that music is one of the most enduring mediums both for worship and for creating secular community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, Young Jean Lee’s \u003cem>CHURCH\u003c/em> likely won’t change the way you do or do not believe—but at some point, you may come to appreciate how closely your own practices and reactions resemble those from either end of the spectrum of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘CHURCH’ runs through Oct. 6 at the Potrero Stage. \u003ca href=\"http://www.crowdedfire.org/church/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The genius of the plays of Young Jean Lee is that no matter what your personal opinion of a specific work is, it’s impossible to view one with indifference. It’s a rare playwright who can consider charged topics such as race (\u003cem>The Shipment\u003c/em>), gender privilege (\u003cem>Straight White Men\u003c/em>), and gender identity (\u003cem>Untitled Feminist Show\u003c/em>) and reveal them as fully nuanced topics with fully nuanced humans on either side of their inevitable ideological divide. A line or scene that may have one audience member nodding along in recognition may provoke a recoil of shock in another, but whatever their reaction, neither will walk away without a strong opinion of the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s public meditation on Christian faith, \u003cem>CHURCH\u003c/em>—currently produced by Crowded Fire, and directed by Mina Morita—is a brief slip of a play, clocking in at around 60 minutes. In concept, it portrays a much-abbreviated church service, one that’s over long before the congregation-audience can begin wriggling uncomfortably in their seats or looking longingly at the exits. The basic elements of a Sunday morning churchgoing—liturgical music, earnest sermonizing, a call to prayer—form the foundation of the performance, and it’s clearly a structure familiar to many audience members, with several spontaneously murmuring amen and offering grace at the appropriate times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/LawrenceRadecker_credit_HillaryGoidell.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Reverend José (Lawrence Radecker) explains it all in ‘CHURCH.’ \u003ccite>(Hillary Goidell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even for a staunch atheist with religion an integral but maddening part of the long-distant past, a condition I share with the playwright, there are moments in \u003cem>CHURCH\u003c/em> that resonate on a personal level. The opening monologue, performed in the dark by Reverend José (Lawrence Radecker), is a pointed observation of the all-too human condition of self-importance and half-hearted armchair activism, directed seemingly specifically to the skeptics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You claim to care about suffering in the world and take luxurious pleasure in raging against the perpetrators of that suffering,” he admonishes. “But this masturbation-rage helps nothing and no one.” I doubt I’m the only non-believer in the room who feels personally singled out by this merciless deconstruction of the well-intentioned path to hell. And I can’t deny that it’s a scripture I can subscribe to, right up until the moment he concludes with: “The day will come in which the Lord God Almighty comes in a shining blaze of glory, and the knowledge of your shallow heart will cause you to bite through your own tongue with grief,” and in a single sentence everything I might otherwise have agreed with is subverted by holy fear-mongering. It’s a subversion not at all uncommon in Lee’s confrontational aesthetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/JordanMariaDon_Alison-Whismore_NkechiEmeruwa_credit_HillaryGoidell.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan María Don, Alison Whismore, and Nkechi Emeruwa as their Reverend selves in Crowded Fire’s production of ‘CHURCH.’ \u003ccite>(Hillary Goidell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other moments in the play appear tailored to resonate more with the true believers in the room, as a cluster of three female reverends join Radecker onstage, clad in playful floral prints (designed by Alice Ruiz), and offering the assembled congregation heartfelt smiles of welcome, as they take turns at the modest podium set centerstage. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But soon enough the play begins veering into the territory of the absurd. The Reverend Alison (Alison Whismore) smiles impishly as she confesses to all kinds of past perversions, her hair a beguiling Boticelli cascade. She’s followed by Reverend José who delivers another sermon, the main purpose of which seems to be equating the language of the faithful to a passionate torrent of Baroque gibberish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s at this point that my own objectivity gives way to the unmistakable sensation of being a bored 10-year-old surrounded by the righteous, surreptitiously kicking the pews and waiting for the final amens. Nothing about the Reverend José’s parable makes sense to me, presumably because it wasn’t written to make sense to \u003cem>anyone\u003c/em>, and herein lies the subversive power of Lee’s piece. No communal experience, she points out, even among the mostly like-minded, is the same for each participant. Through the medium of Reverend Jose’s tortured metaphors of tuna, cactus, and poison, Lee reminds us that we all take different parts of the experience into ourselves and make of it what we will. That’s life, and art, and yes, even religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-800x719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-800x719.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-768x690.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-960x863.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-240x216.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-375x337.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert-520x467.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/NkechiEmeruwa_credit_AdamTolbert.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nkechi Emeruwa in a state of ecstatic dance in Crowded Fire’s ‘CHURCH.’ \u003ccite>(Adam Tolbert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More universally relatable are the moments where spoken expression gives way to music, as in a scene where the three female reverends begin to dance, and they abandon themselves to the physical ecstasy of it, eventually joined by Radecker. Without words they convey volumes of what it means to experience joy as communion. And when, in the final moments of the play, an entire choir invades the stage to raise their voices in song, their benign presence reminds the audience that music is one of the most enduring mediums both for worship and for creating secular community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, Young Jean Lee’s \u003cem>CHURCH\u003c/em> likely won’t change the way you do or do not believe—but at some point, you may come to appreciate how closely your own practices and reactions resemble those from either end of the spectrum of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘CHURCH’ runs through Oct. 6 at the Potrero Stage. \u003ca href=\"http://www.crowdedfire.org/church/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He splits his time between Mumbai and Oakland, and he’ll be speaking at panel discussion on technology in entertainment this weekend as part of \u003ca href=\"https://basafilmfestival.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bay Area South Asian Film Festival\u003c/a>.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28j8h0RRov4]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the festival’s debut, which demonstrates a conversation happening across the Pacific between South Asia and the South Asian diaspora here in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aniruddha Dasgupta is festival director, when he’s not working his day job as director of product engineering at Visa. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been 20 years since the outsider rock icon that is Hedwig Schmidt (played by creator John Cameron Mitchell) first took the stage at the Jane Street Theatre in New York City, and \u003cem>Hedwig and the Angry Inch\u003c/em> first began its slow, stiletto-heeled climb into the American consciousness. Eventually hitting Broadway in 2014 in a star-studded run, which variously featured the talents of Neil Patrick Harris, Michael C. Hall, and Darren Criss as the titular genderqueer character, Hedwig has never quite gone out of style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003cem>Hedwig\u003c/em> is at the Victoria Theatre in the Mission, directed by Sailor Galaviz and Jason Hoover for Ray of Light Theatre. And it’s a reminder of why, after two decades, the show resonates with fans both new and old, who often return to the story again and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My plus one for the evening and confirmed “Hed-head,” Curtis, first saw the musical in Seattle circa 2003, an experience he remembers fondly. The actor in the role of Hedwig was “disgusting,” he recalls admiringly: spitting at the audience, reeling around the space, shouting and generally behaving like the washed-up, down-and-out character on the C-list circuit first envisioned by John Cameron Mitchell and collaborator Stephen Trask. Curtis attended several performances of the Boxcar Theatre runs between 2012 and 2013—which I saw as well—wherein the role of Hedwig was split each night between multiple actors of various genders, ages, and ethnicities. Curtis has also seen the musical performed on Broadway three times, as well as at Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, where he saw his favorite Hedwig actor to date: Lena Hall (“she’s so amazing,” he gushes).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841081\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coleton Schmitto as Hedwig at the Victoria Theatre. \u003ccite>(Alexander Belmont)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s no dive bar, but the slightly-worse-for-wear Victoria Theatre at 16th and Mission is the next best place to host a rock musical masquerading as a desperate, penniless tour. After the show opens with a heady bang, complete with on-point club lighting (designed by Joe D’Emilio and Leo Hidalgo) and the hard-punching cry of liberation, “Tear Me Down,” Hedwig (played by Coleton Schmitto), reads “one-star Yelp reviews” of the Victoria, making fun of its patchy paint job and tiny bathrooms. Taking the piss out of your locale is a Hedwig tradition, and the Yelp reviews are a great touch (“it’s a good thing San Franciscans are not judgmental or opinionated,” Schmitto deadpans).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Hedwig, the bulk of the exposition rests on Schmitto’s incredibly broad, undeniably masculine shoulders (the feminine aspects of the character more evident in the shredded riot grrrl clothing and giant blond power-ballad-worthy wig, designed respectively by Maggie Whitaker, Chantrelle Grover, Amy Bobeda, and Becky Motorlodge). While he delivers a solid performance, it doesn’t always feel as if he’s inhabiting the character so much as the center stage. Unlike his foil, stagehand and husband Yitzhak (Maya Michal Sherer), whose powerful vocals and crisp enunciation soar even when not using a microphone, Schmitto has either a delivery or a sound mix that frequently garbles his lyrics and obscures their poetry. This isn’t always a problem—I’ve been to plenty of rock shows where the lyrics play second fiddle to the instrumentation. But for those moments in the show where the soul-searching is done in song, it’s a distraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hedwig and the Angry Inch play the Victoria Theatre. \u003ccite>(Alexander Belmont)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What’s not a distraction is the rock-solid, four-piece band, made up of members of the First Church of the Sacred Silversexual, a David Bowie tribute ensemble; Palace of Trash, a Cockettes-inspired performance troupe; and former Thrillpeddlers, a theater company dedicated to reviving works of Grand Guigonal and Theater of the Ridiculous. It’s hard to conceive of a band more steeped in San Francisco’s queer performance scene than David Walker (drums), Diogo Zavaski (Guitar), Lysol Tony-Romeo (bass), and Steven Bolinger (keys, guitar, and musical direction), and as Hedwig’s long-suffering tourmates, their polished delivery often threatens to outshine their supposed dire straits, and the modest container for their talents that is the Victoria Theatre stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of space is also a highpoint of the production, as Hedwig strolls along the wings, engages the audience, and at a climactic moment, ascends a tall ladder, tearing off her clothing, and emerging from her Hot Topic-attired cocoon. No mere bit character hiding in the shadows, Yitzhak runs after her, handing her drinks, holding her mic, picking up her discarded props, at times shining small practical lights on her and on selected audience members, actively participating throughout the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coleton Schmitto as Hedwig transforming. \u003ccite>(Alexander Belmont)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the true triumph of Hedwig is that no matter who plays the role, where it is performed, or whatever technical issues may arise, the central message of \u003cem>Hedwig\u003c/em> is never lost. The clarion call to “the misfits and the losers” to “lift up your hands” and become whole may sound simplistic on paper. But in a room full of friends and strangers, hands lifted in communal celebration, a pulsing wave of music and light washing over the crowd as Hedwig relinquishes the stage to the long-suffering Yitzhak—dressed to kill in scarlet ruffles and a brunette bouffant—it is the only truth that makes sense in the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as Curtis puts it, ultimately \u003cem>Hedwig\u003c/em> is about “being comfortable in your own skin,” whatever skin that happens to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took years for me,” he admits. “But it finally happened.” It can happen for you too, Hedwig reassures us. You just have to let the rock ‘n’ roll in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841083\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Michal Sherer as Yitzhak in ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ at Victoria Theatre. \u003ccite>(Alexander Belmont)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ plays through Oct. 6 at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.rayoflighttheatre.com\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been 20 years since the outsider rock icon that is Hedwig Schmidt (played by creator John Cameron Mitchell) first took the stage at the Jane Street Theatre in New York City, and \u003cem>Hedwig and the Angry Inch\u003c/em> first began its slow, stiletto-heeled climb into the American consciousness. Eventually hitting Broadway in 2014 in a star-studded run, which variously featured the talents of Neil Patrick Harris, Michael C. Hall, and Darren Criss as the titular genderqueer character, Hedwig has never quite gone out of style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, \u003cem>Hedwig\u003c/em> is at the Victoria Theatre in the Mission, directed by Sailor Galaviz and Jason Hoover for Ray of Light Theatre. And it’s a reminder of why, after two decades, the show resonates with fans both new and old, who often return to the story again and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My plus one for the evening and confirmed “Hed-head,” Curtis, first saw the musical in Seattle circa 2003, an experience he remembers fondly. The actor in the role of Hedwig was “disgusting,” he recalls admiringly: spitting at the audience, reeling around the space, shouting and generally behaving like the washed-up, down-and-out character on the C-list circuit first envisioned by John Cameron Mitchell and collaborator Stephen Trask. Curtis attended several performances of the Boxcar Theatre runs between 2012 and 2013—which I saw as well—wherein the role of Hedwig was split each night between multiple actors of various genders, ages, and ethnicities. Curtis has also seen the musical performed on Broadway three times, as well as at Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, where he saw his favorite Hedwig actor to date: Lena Hall (“she’s so amazing,” he gushes).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841081\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_credit_AlexanderBelmont.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coleton Schmitto as Hedwig at the Victoria Theatre. \u003ccite>(Alexander Belmont)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s no dive bar, but the slightly-worse-for-wear Victoria Theatre at 16th and Mission is the next best place to host a rock musical masquerading as a desperate, penniless tour. After the show opens with a heady bang, complete with on-point club lighting (designed by Joe D’Emilio and Leo Hidalgo) and the hard-punching cry of liberation, “Tear Me Down,” Hedwig (played by Coleton Schmitto), reads “one-star Yelp reviews” of the Victoria, making fun of its patchy paint job and tiny bathrooms. Taking the piss out of your locale is a Hedwig tradition, and the Yelp reviews are a great touch (“it’s a good thing San Franciscans are not judgmental or opinionated,” Schmitto deadpans).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Hedwig, the bulk of the exposition rests on Schmitto’s incredibly broad, undeniably masculine shoulders (the feminine aspects of the character more evident in the shredded riot grrrl clothing and giant blond power-ballad-worthy wig, designed respectively by Maggie Whitaker, Chantrelle Grover, Amy Bobeda, and Becky Motorlodge). While he delivers a solid performance, it doesn’t always feel as if he’s inhabiting the character so much as the center stage. Unlike his foil, stagehand and husband Yitzhak (Maya Michal Sherer), whose powerful vocals and crisp enunciation soar even when not using a microphone, Schmitto has either a delivery or a sound mix that frequently garbles his lyrics and obscures their poetry. This isn’t always a problem—I’ve been to plenty of rock shows where the lyrics play second fiddle to the instrumentation. But for those moments in the show where the soul-searching is done in song, it’s a distraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/HedwigtheAngryInch_credit_AlexanderBelmont.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hedwig and the Angry Inch play the Victoria Theatre. \u003ccite>(Alexander Belmont)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What’s not a distraction is the rock-solid, four-piece band, made up of members of the First Church of the Sacred Silversexual, a David Bowie tribute ensemble; Palace of Trash, a Cockettes-inspired performance troupe; and former Thrillpeddlers, a theater company dedicated to reviving works of Grand Guigonal and Theater of the Ridiculous. It’s hard to conceive of a band more steeped in San Francisco’s queer performance scene than David Walker (drums), Diogo Zavaski (Guitar), Lysol Tony-Romeo (bass), and Steven Bolinger (keys, guitar, and musical direction), and as Hedwig’s long-suffering tourmates, their polished delivery often threatens to outshine their supposed dire straits, and the modest container for their talents that is the Victoria Theatre stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of space is also a highpoint of the production, as Hedwig strolls along the wings, engages the audience, and at a climactic moment, ascends a tall ladder, tearing off her clothing, and emerging from her Hot Topic-attired cocoon. No mere bit character hiding in the shadows, Yitzhak runs after her, handing her drinks, holding her mic, picking up her discarded props, at times shining small practical lights on her and on selected audience members, actively participating throughout the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/ColetonSchmitto_transformation_credit_AlexanderBelmont.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coleton Schmitto as Hedwig transforming. \u003ccite>(Alexander Belmont)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the true triumph of Hedwig is that no matter who plays the role, where it is performed, or whatever technical issues may arise, the central message of \u003cem>Hedwig\u003c/em> is never lost. The clarion call to “the misfits and the losers” to “lift up your hands” and become whole may sound simplistic on paper. But in a room full of friends and strangers, hands lifted in communal celebration, a pulsing wave of music and light washing over the crowd as Hedwig relinquishes the stage to the long-suffering Yitzhak—dressed to kill in scarlet ruffles and a brunette bouffant—it is the only truth that makes sense in the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as Curtis puts it, ultimately \u003cem>Hedwig\u003c/em> is about “being comfortable in your own skin,” whatever skin that happens to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took years for me,” he admits. “But it finally happened.” It can happen for you too, Hedwig reassures us. You just have to let the rock ‘n’ roll in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13841083\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MayaMichalSherer_credit_AlexanderBelmont.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Michal Sherer as Yitzhak in ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ at Victoria Theatre. \u003ccite>(Alexander Belmont)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ plays through Oct. 6 at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.rayoflighttheatre.com\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003c/a> has appointed Johanna Pfaelzer as its new artistic director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major regional performing arts organization announced the hire on Monday, following a year-long search which attracted 160 candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news comes more than one and a half years since Tony Taccone, the company’s previous artistic leader, announced his retirement in January 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 33 years in the role, Taccone grew Berkeley Rep’s national reputation as a launching pad for Broadway shows like the Green Day musical, \u003cem>American Idiot, \u003c/em>and the Carrie Fisher vehicle, \u003cem>Wishful Drinking\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pfaelzer will join Berkeley Rep in 2019 from her current position as the artistic director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorkstageandfilm.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Stage and Film\u003c/a>, a performing arts incubator in New York. In that role, Pfaelzer helped to develop the blockbuster musical \u003cem>Hamilton \u003c/em>during its early stages, as well as acclaimed Broadway plays like \u003cem>The Humans. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12946932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12946932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/HamiltonAction-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The 'Hamilton' company of the 'Hamilton' national tour, currently at SHN Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. 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(Joan Marcus) \u003ccite>(Joan Marcus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003ci>“\u003c/i>I’m excited to bring a lot of the artistic relationships that I’ve developed over the last two decades to Berkeley Rep,” Pfaelzer said in a phone interview. “That includes specific writers, directors, actors and composers, as well as a set of relationships both with commercial producers and with other not-for-profit theaters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pfaelzer named Ngozi Anyanwu, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ayad Akhtar\u003c/span> and Hamish Linklater among the artists she hopes to bring to Berkeley in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also said she is committed to delving into the Bay Area’s existing artistic pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“One of the things is that I feel like that I want to do first is to reacquaint myself in a deep way with who the local artists are here,” Pfaelzer said. “I’m really excited to begin to know them and their work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pfaelzer, 49, has Bay Area roots. She spent her early childhood in Berkeley, has family here, and worked for five years as the associate artistic director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Conservatory Theater \u003c/a>(ACT).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Bay Area theater community are responding positively to the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Johanna Pfaelzer has an extraordinary track record of developing thrilling new work, and a deep understanding of the Bay Area community,” said Brad Erickson, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatrebayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatre Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional performing arts service organization. “Berkeley Rep\u003cbr>\ncould not have made a better choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have Johanna across the Bay is nothing but good news,” said Pam MacKinnon, artistic director of ACT. “She is a sublime choice for her commitment to theater artists, taste, curiosity, and sense of humor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacKinnon said she’s known Pfaelzer for more than 15 years. 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