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Kill Them Off!; \u003c/em>Cutting Ball Theater’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13867205/partying-like-its-2099-at-cutting-balls-free-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free for All\u003c/a> \u003c/em>prophesized an underwater future; and nightmare creatures of combustion, avarice and denial stalked the stage of Antic in a Drain’s \u003cem>Tempting Fate. \u003c/em>Global warming was one hot topic that demanded creative attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13872055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cast of The Jungle at Curran Theatre, Spring 2019. \u003ccite>(Little Fang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration and Borders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with climate change, the theme of borders was one that preoccupied playwrights. Immigrants, operatives and governments took centerstage in Dan Hoyle’s bare-bones documentary theater piece \u003cem>Border People\u003c/em> at the Marsh and the sprawling, immersive world of \u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em> at the Curran. Meanwhile, tightening U.S. borders impacted the theater world another way: visas were denied or delayed for international artists working with entities such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcv.org/article/states-of-denial-visa-rejections-cause-cancellations-at-sf-international-arts-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco International Arts Festival\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13850872/exit-theatre-cancels-show-after-us-immigration-blocks-canadian-performer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EXIT Theatre \u003c/a>and the Imaginists. (Full disclosure: I work with EXIT Theatre.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Anthony Jones and Nancy Moricette in Mfoniso Udofia’s In Old Age at Magic Theatre. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Reiley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shows in Conversation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some theatrical “conversations” this year were planned—such as the twin productions of Mfoniso Udofia’s \u003cem>Her Portmanteau\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854596/magic-theatre-does-what-it-does-best-with-mfoniso-udofias-in-old-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>In Old Age\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at A.C.T. and the Magic Theatre. Meanwhile, others seemed to emerge from pure happy coincidence. These included Poltergeist Theatre Project’s first full-length debut, \u003cem>The Julie Cycle\u003c/em>, and Cutting Ball Theater’s \u003cem>Free for All\u003c/em>, which both remixed August Strindberg’s \u003cem>Miss Julie\u003c/em>. African-American Shakespeare Company’s \u003cem>Macbeth\u003c/em> and Ubuntu Theater Project’s \u003cem>Down Here Below \u003c/em>both featured homeless encampments. The common themes of these shows magnified their individual impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie (James Carpenter) and Nancy (Ellen McLaughlin) panic at the appearance of Sarah (Sarah Nina Hayon) and Leslie (Seann Gallagher) \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leadership Changes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a year of goodbye and hello as long-standing artistic directors of cherished institutions moved on or announced their pending departures, and new appointees took their posts. A.C.T.’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849904/a-day-at-the-beach-interrupted-by-two-giant-lizards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pam MacKinnon \u003c/a>cemented her first full season by directing both Edward Albee’s \u003cem>Seascape\u003c/em> and Kate Attwell’s \u003cem>Testmatch\u003c/em>. Johanna Pfaelzer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13848822/cargenie-halls-jeremy-n-geffen-named-cal-performances-director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Geffen\u003c/a> and Josh Costello stepped into their new appointments at Berkeley Repertory Theater, Cal Performances and Aurora Theatre Company, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Bond was announced as TheatreWorks second-ever artistic director, set to take over from Robert Kelley in July 2020. And the iconic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855327/beach-blanket-babylon-san-franciscos-long-running-celebration-of-camp-to-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Beach Blanket Babylon\u003c/em>\u003c/a> called it quits after 45 years. Meanwhile, Oakland company Ragged Wing announced that it would give up its black-box space \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855327/beach-blanket-babylon-san-franciscos-long-running-celebration-of-camp-to-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Flight Deck\u003c/a> in March 2020 due to high operational costs, a call to action to a wider community of independent artists who may be able to take on its management in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"An epic battle against darkness in 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' at the Curran Theatre.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An epic battle against darkness in ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ at the Curran Theatre. \u003ccite>(Matthew Murphy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Technical Wizardry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a longtime tech booth lurker, I thrill at the possibilities of good design, and this year offered plenty of marvels. Berkeley Repertory Theater flexed its production muscles with the watery basin that contained Mary Zimmerman’s \u003cem>Metamorphoses \u003c/em>and Bill T. Jones’ stunning \u003cem>Paradise Square\u003c/em> choreography. \u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870645/bedlam-and-broomsticks-a-12-year-old-fan-reviews-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\u003c/em>\u003c/a> astoundingly transformed of the Curran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Innovative design flourished in smaller houses as well, including Colm McNally’s stunningly integrated set and lighting for \u003cem>Ripped\u003c/em> at Z Space, Ronlin Foreman’s diabolical masks for Antic in a Drain’s \u003cem>Tempting Fate\u003c/em> and Celeste Martore’s strikingly austere set for \u003cem>Kill Move Paradise\u003c/em> at Shotgun Players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"J Jha portrays an army of warriors in Ubuntu Theater Project's 'The Mahābhārata.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J Jha portrays an army of warriors in Ubuntu Theater Project’s ‘The Mahābhārata.’ \u003ccite>(Carson French)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And now for superlatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MVPs:\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870102/totally-epic-a-one-person-mahabharata-at-ubuntu-theater-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> J Jha\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13850094/beyond-shrimp-boy-the-family-ties-of-lauren-yees-king-of-the-yees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Krystle Piamonte\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13856717/far-far-better-things-in-berkeley-spotlights-the-hidden-lives-of-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neiry Rojo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13867205/partying-like-its-2099-at-cutting-balls-free-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stacy Ross\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I saw many good performances this year, these four actors in particular inhabited their roles in multiple shows with verve, charisma, tenacity and compassion. Each one was mesmerizing and magnificent to watch all year long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Best Party at the End of the World: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://cuttingball.com/productions/free-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Free for All \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>by Megan Cohen at Cutting Ball Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">A brand new play by local wordsmith Megan Cohen is always cause for celebration, and her futuristic \u003cem>Free For All\u003c/em> at Cutting Ball Theater was a particular treat. Cohen offered a champagne toast to a climate-ravaged San Francisco, poised either at the precipice of unmitigated disaster or of a brave new day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Most Transformative Theatrical Experience: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/shows/the-jungle/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson at the Curran\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">As noted above, this production took over the meticulously restored Curran and turned it into a startlingly realistic refugee camp, where audiences sat at picnic tables and sampled the wares of Salar’s restaurant as the actors—some of whom were once refugees at the Calais camp where the play is set—assembled for the “meeting.” So often, immersive pieces feel like they’re trying too hard to engage an audience mostly intent on spectating comfortably, but \u003cem>The Jungle \u003c/em>showed that actually they’re not trying hard enough. The show set the bar incredibly high, creating an unforgettable, often unforgiving, experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Show Most Likely to Provoke Intense Debate: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.zspace.org/rippedshow?spektrix_bounce=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ripped\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Rachel Bublitz at Z Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The genius of \u003cem>Ripped\u003c/em> is that of all the plays I saw this year, this one kept me questioning my own reactions to it, even six months later. This play—which had a notable reading at Z Space’s 2018 inaugural Problematic Play Festival—invited debate with its daring excavation of the “gray” areas of intent, consent and reliable witness, directed in a taut, compelling production by Lisa Steindler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Most Devastating Afterlife: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861398/review-kill-move-paradise-pulses-with-life-at-shotgun-players\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Kill Move Paradise\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by James Ijames at Shotgun Players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A haunting, haunted exploration of murdered black men and women, \u003cem>Kill Move Paradise\u003c/em> did more than talk about black pain: its characters embodied it with every vibration. Trapped in a porcelain-slick room with curved walls and an oppressive audience watching their every move, the four characters relived their deaths in a focused attempt to break the cycle of violence. Riveting, heart-breaking and damning.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As our calendars poise to flip from the teens to the ’20s, it’s time to indulge in a final burst of nostalgia for the year in theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filled with resonance and unexpected gems, the best Bay Area productions of the year looked at the world and found it filled with catastrophe, daring and hope—a reminder that artists are our best documentarians and our most prescient prophets. Here are some of the biggest takeaways from this year—and a toast of encouragement for the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/FreeForAll_CharlieGray_StacyRoss_MiyakaPCochrane_credit_BenKrantz-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy Ross skis down the San Francisco slopes with Charlie Gray (left) and Miyaka P. Cochrane (right) in 'Free For All: A New “Miss Julie” for a New World.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/FreeForAll_CharlieGray_StacyRoss_MiyakaPCochrane_credit_BenKrantz-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/FreeForAll_CharlieGray_StacyRoss_MiyakaPCochrane_credit_BenKrantz-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/FreeForAll_CharlieGray_StacyRoss_MiyakaPCochrane_credit_BenKrantz-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/FreeForAll_CharlieGray_StacyRoss_MiyakaPCochrane_credit_BenKrantz-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/FreeForAll_CharlieGray_StacyRoss_MiyakaPCochrane_credit_BenKrantz-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/FreeForAll_CharlieGray_StacyRoss_MiyakaPCochrane_credit_BenKrantz-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/FreeForAll_CharlieGray_StacyRoss_MiyakaPCochrane_credit_BenKrantz.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacy Ross skis down the San Francisco slopes with Charlie Gray (left) and Miyaka P. Cochrane (right) in ‘Free For All: A New “Miss Julie” for a New World.’ \u003ccite>(Ben Krantz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate Change on Stage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most eclectic, energetic and experimental shows of the year delved into the ever-present issue of climate change and its devastating effects. The California wildfires raged in the background of Shotgun Players’ \u003cem>Kill the Debbie Downers! Kill Them! Kill Them! Kill Them Off!; \u003c/em>Cutting Ball Theater’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13867205/partying-like-its-2099-at-cutting-balls-free-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free for All\u003c/a> \u003c/em>prophesized an underwater future; and nightmare creatures of combustion, avarice and denial stalked the stage of Antic in a Drain’s \u003cem>Tempting Fate. \u003c/em>Global warming was one hot topic that demanded creative attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13872055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/JNGLPRO-20.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cast of The Jungle at Curran Theatre, Spring 2019. \u003ccite>(Little Fang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration and Borders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with climate change, the theme of borders was one that preoccupied playwrights. Immigrants, operatives and governments took centerstage in Dan Hoyle’s bare-bones documentary theater piece \u003cem>Border People\u003c/em> at the Marsh and the sprawling, immersive world of \u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em> at the Curran. Meanwhile, tightening U.S. borders impacted the theater world another way: visas were denied or delayed for international artists working with entities such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcv.org/article/states-of-denial-visa-rejections-cause-cancellations-at-sf-international-arts-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco International Arts Festival\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13850872/exit-theatre-cancels-show-after-us-immigration-blocks-canadian-performer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EXIT Theatre \u003c/a>and the Imaginists. (Full disclosure: I work with EXIT Theatre.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13854603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13854603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/3_Steven-Anthony-Jones-and-Nancy-Moricette-in-the-World-Premiere-of-Mfoniso-Udofias-IN-OLD-AGE-at-Magic-Theatre.-Photo-by-Jennifer-Reiley.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Anthony Jones and Nancy Moricette in Mfoniso Udofia’s In Old Age at Magic Theatre. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Reiley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shows in Conversation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some theatrical “conversations” this year were planned—such as the twin productions of Mfoniso Udofia’s \u003cem>Her Portmanteau\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854596/magic-theatre-does-what-it-does-best-with-mfoniso-udofias-in-old-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>In Old Age\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at A.C.T. and the Magic Theatre. Meanwhile, others seemed to emerge from pure happy coincidence. These included Poltergeist Theatre Project’s first full-length debut, \u003cem>The Julie Cycle\u003c/em>, and Cutting Ball Theater’s \u003cem>Free for All\u003c/em>, which both remixed August Strindberg’s \u003cem>Miss Julie\u003c/em>. African-American Shakespeare Company’s \u003cem>Macbeth\u003c/em> and Ubuntu Theater Project’s \u003cem>Down Here Below \u003c/em>both featured homeless encampments. The common themes of these shows magnified their individual impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13849913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13849913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Seascape_JamesCarpenter_SarahNinaHayon_SeannGallagher_EllenMcLaughlin_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie (James Carpenter) and Nancy (Ellen McLaughlin) panic at the appearance of Sarah (Sarah Nina Hayon) and Leslie (Seann Gallagher) \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leadership Changes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a year of goodbye and hello as long-standing artistic directors of cherished institutions moved on or announced their pending departures, and new appointees took their posts. A.C.T.’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849904/a-day-at-the-beach-interrupted-by-two-giant-lizards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pam MacKinnon \u003c/a>cemented her first full season by directing both Edward Albee’s \u003cem>Seascape\u003c/em> and Kate Attwell’s \u003cem>Testmatch\u003c/em>. Johanna Pfaelzer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13848822/cargenie-halls-jeremy-n-geffen-named-cal-performances-director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Geffen\u003c/a> and Josh Costello stepped into their new appointments at Berkeley Repertory Theater, Cal Performances and Aurora Theatre Company, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Bond was announced as TheatreWorks second-ever artistic director, set to take over from Robert Kelley in July 2020. And the iconic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855327/beach-blanket-babylon-san-franciscos-long-running-celebration-of-camp-to-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Beach Blanket Babylon\u003c/em>\u003c/a> called it quits after 45 years. Meanwhile, Oakland company Ragged Wing announced that it would give up its black-box space \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855327/beach-blanket-babylon-san-franciscos-long-running-celebration-of-camp-to-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Flight Deck\u003c/a> in March 2020 due to high operational costs, a call to action to a wider community of independent artists who may be able to take on its management in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"An epic battle against darkness in 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' at the Curran Theatre.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/HPATCC.MAIN_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An epic battle against darkness in ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ at the Curran Theatre. \u003ccite>(Matthew Murphy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Technical Wizardry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a longtime tech booth lurker, I thrill at the possibilities of good design, and this year offered plenty of marvels. Berkeley Repertory Theater flexed its production muscles with the watery basin that contained Mary Zimmerman’s \u003cem>Metamorphoses \u003c/em>and Bill T. Jones’ stunning \u003cem>Paradise Square\u003c/em> choreography. \u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870645/bedlam-and-broomsticks-a-12-year-old-fan-reviews-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\u003c/em>\u003c/a> astoundingly transformed of the Curran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Innovative design flourished in smaller houses as well, including Colm McNally’s stunningly integrated set and lighting for \u003cem>Ripped\u003c/em> at Z Space, Ronlin Foreman’s diabolical masks for Antic in a Drain’s \u003cem>Tempting Fate\u003c/em> and Celeste Martore’s strikingly austere set for \u003cem>Kill Move Paradise\u003c/em> at Shotgun Players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"J Jha portrays an army of warriors in Ubuntu Theater Project's 'The Mahābhārata.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/UbuntuTheaterProject_Mahabharata_JJha_credit_CarsonFrench_1-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J Jha portrays an army of warriors in Ubuntu Theater Project’s ‘The Mahābhārata.’ \u003ccite>(Carson French)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And now for superlatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MVPs:\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870102/totally-epic-a-one-person-mahabharata-at-ubuntu-theater-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> J Jha\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13850094/beyond-shrimp-boy-the-family-ties-of-lauren-yees-king-of-the-yees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Krystle Piamonte\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13856717/far-far-better-things-in-berkeley-spotlights-the-hidden-lives-of-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neiry Rojo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13867205/partying-like-its-2099-at-cutting-balls-free-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stacy Ross\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I saw many good performances this year, these four actors in particular inhabited their roles in multiple shows with verve, charisma, tenacity and compassion. Each one was mesmerizing and magnificent to watch all year long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Best Party at the End of the World: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://cuttingball.com/productions/free-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Free for All \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>by Megan Cohen at Cutting Ball Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">A brand new play by local wordsmith Megan Cohen is always cause for celebration, and her futuristic \u003cem>Free For All\u003c/em> at Cutting Ball Theater was a particular treat. Cohen offered a champagne toast to a climate-ravaged San Francisco, poised either at the precipice of unmitigated disaster or of a brave new day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Most Transformative Theatrical Experience: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/shows/the-jungle/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Jungle\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson at the Curran\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">As noted above, this production took over the meticulously restored Curran and turned it into a startlingly realistic refugee camp, where audiences sat at picnic tables and sampled the wares of Salar’s restaurant as the actors—some of whom were once refugees at the Calais camp where the play is set—assembled for the “meeting.” So often, immersive pieces feel like they’re trying too hard to engage an audience mostly intent on spectating comfortably, but \u003cem>The Jungle \u003c/em>showed that actually they’re not trying hard enough. The show set the bar incredibly high, creating an unforgettable, often unforgiving, experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Show Most Likely to Provoke Intense Debate: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.zspace.org/rippedshow?spektrix_bounce=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ripped\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Rachel Bublitz at Z Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The genius of \u003cem>Ripped\u003c/em> is that of all the plays I saw this year, this one kept me questioning my own reactions to it, even six months later. This play—which had a notable reading at Z Space’s 2018 inaugural Problematic Play Festival—invited debate with its daring excavation of the “gray” areas of intent, consent and reliable witness, directed in a taut, compelling production by Lisa Steindler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Most Devastating Afterlife: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861398/review-kill-move-paradise-pulses-with-life-at-shotgun-players\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Kill Move Paradise\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by James Ijames at Shotgun Players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ah, December. The most magical time of year… unless the relentless onslaught of the holly-daze leaves you cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gave up counting how many Christmas-themed theater shows are currently running in the Bay Area, from the old standby \u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> to fanciful mashups such as \u003cem>Christmas in OZ\u003c/em> and Peaches Christ’s \u003cem>Femlins\u003c/em>. (Not to mention at least eight versions of \u003cem>The Nutcracker\u003c/em>.) And while these clearly beloved classics and comedies appeal to a specific, doubtlessly enthusiastic audience, for the non-denominational arts lover in December it can be difficult to find secular alternatives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happily, they do exist. Here are just a few standouts to get you started on your mistletoe-free theater spree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-1200x855.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Aaron Oh, Will Livingston, and Caitlin Evenson in Shualee Cook’s ‘An Invitation Out,’ presented by Quantum Dragon Theatre. \u003ccite>(Morgan Finley King)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘An Invitation Out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Shualee Cook, Quantum Dragon Theatre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s only theatre company dedicated to the production of science fiction and fantasy plays presents the West Coast premiere of Shualee Cook’s \u003cem>An Invitation Out.\u003c/em> Billed as a “science fiction comedy of manners,” this social-media inspired futuristic comedy is set in an online virtual reality, where one can assume and shed identities with the click of a button. But can anything convince them to “unplug” and rejoin the world of the Outdwellers? Anchored by a nine-person cast of Bay Area stalwarts, and directed by Kieran Beccia, this play delves into the questions that make us human—while wrapped in neo-Victorian/cyberspace glamour. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 14-29; \u003ca href=\"http://www.quantumdragon.org/an-invitation-out\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-805x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Ernst as Niels Bohr in 'Copenhagen,' by Michael Frayn, presented by Indra's Net Theater.\" width=\"640\" height=\"954\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-805x1200.jpg 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-800x1193.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-768x1145.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Ernst as Niels Bohr in ‘Copenhagen,’ by Michael Frayn, presented by Indra’s Net Theater. \u003ccite>(Irene Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Copenhagen’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Frayn, Indra’s Net Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From science fiction to scientists, Bay Area Theater is carving out a space for scientific discourse of many kinds, and Indra’s Net Theater is at the forefront. As a company focused on producing plays about hard science, their characters include Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Shrinivasa Ramanujan. This year they’re reprising their successful 2013 production, \u003cem>Copenhagen\u003c/em>—a play about a secret meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg to discuss the viability of an atomic bomb. After new information about the historic meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg came to light in 2018, Michael Frayn made some changes to his Tony Award-winning script to reflect the additional material. This is the Bay Area premiere of the newly revised script, and a chance to revisit this ethical dilemma as it plays out in the afterlife. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 19, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://www.indrasnettheater.com/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Reed in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s world premiere, ‘Becky Nurse.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Becky Nurse’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sarah Ruhl, Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrestling with the complex reverberations of the Salem Witch trials through the eyes of a present-day descendant of Rebecca Nurse, one of the wrongfully accused and murdered, this world premiere production ties the two together with dark comedy and a magickal reckoning. Written by Sarah Ruhl, an award-winning playwright whose deft and inspired comedies have been produced five other times on the Berkeley Rep stage, and starring Pamela Reed in the titular role, \u003cem>Becky Nurse \u003c/em>will provide a bracing antidote to the “holiday spirit” with its nods to the occult, female power, and the art of speaking out. (\u003cem>Previews from Dec. 12, show runs through Jan. 26, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1920/14545.asp\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-768x483.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1200x754.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1920x1207.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Trout as Alice in ‘Vinegar Tom,’ by Caryl Churchill, presented by Shotgun Players. \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Vinegar Tom’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Caryl Churchill, Shotgun Players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the occult and female power, Caryl Churchill’s exploration of witchy women \u003cem>Vinegar Tom\u003c/em> gets the Shotgun Players treatment this month on the Ashby Stage. Directed by Ariel Craft, with music direction by Daniel Alley and original music by songwriter Diana Lawrence, this audacious nod to Brechtian “epic theater” examines the ruling power’s propensity to demonize its challengers—one witch trial and contemporary ballad at a time. Celebrate the continuation of the Bay Area’s spontaneous Caryl Churchill revival with the fourth play of hers to be produced this year on area stages, with a fifth to open at Magic Theatre next April. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 6, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2FPuyCJ\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-960x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Devin A. Cunningham and Funmi Lola in the African-American Shakespeare Company's annual presentation of 'Cinderella.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devin A. Cunningham and Funmi Lola in the African-American Shakespeare Company’s annual presentation of ‘Cinderella.’ \u003ccite>(Lance Huntley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Cinderella’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By the African American Shakespeare Company\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fun to spend time with family during the holidays, but there are only so many times one can bring the kids to the \u003cem>Nutcracker\u003c/em> before “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” imprints itself permanently into your auditory cortex. Spare yourself and take the kiddies instead to \u003cem>Cinderella\u003c/em>, presented by the African American Shakespeare Company. This traditional offering, now in its 18th year, is an elegant, big-hearted foray into a world of lovers, dreamers, and fairy magic (not the sugar plum kind) sprinkled throughout. This year’s action-packed weekend of shows also includes an activity-filled afternoon tea with a meet-and-greet opportunity with the cast, and treats for all. Directed by Sherri Young. (Runs Dec. 20-22. \u003ca href=\"http://www.african-americanshakes.org/productions/cinderella/\">Details here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ah, December. The most magical time of year… unless the relentless onslaught of the holly-daze leaves you cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gave up counting how many Christmas-themed theater shows are currently running in the Bay Area, from the old standby \u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> to fanciful mashups such as \u003cem>Christmas in OZ\u003c/em> and Peaches Christ’s \u003cem>Femlins\u003c/em>. (Not to mention at least eight versions of \u003cem>The Nutcracker\u003c/em>.) And while these clearly beloved classics and comedies appeal to a specific, doubtlessly enthusiastic audience, for the non-denominational arts lover in December it can be difficult to find secular alternatives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happily, they do exist. Here are just a few standouts to get you started on your mistletoe-free theater spree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-1200x855.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Aaron Oh, Will Livingston, and Caitlin Evenson in Shualee Cook’s ‘An Invitation Out,’ presented by Quantum Dragon Theatre. \u003ccite>(Morgan Finley King)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘An Invitation Out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Shualee Cook, Quantum Dragon Theatre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s only theatre company dedicated to the production of science fiction and fantasy plays presents the West Coast premiere of Shualee Cook’s \u003cem>An Invitation Out.\u003c/em> Billed as a “science fiction comedy of manners,” this social-media inspired futuristic comedy is set in an online virtual reality, where one can assume and shed identities with the click of a button. But can anything convince them to “unplug” and rejoin the world of the Outdwellers? Anchored by a nine-person cast of Bay Area stalwarts, and directed by Kieran Beccia, this play delves into the questions that make us human—while wrapped in neo-Victorian/cyberspace glamour. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 14-29; \u003ca href=\"http://www.quantumdragon.org/an-invitation-out\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-805x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Ernst as Niels Bohr in 'Copenhagen,' by Michael Frayn, presented by Indra's Net Theater.\" width=\"640\" height=\"954\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-805x1200.jpg 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-800x1193.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-768x1145.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Ernst as Niels Bohr in ‘Copenhagen,’ by Michael Frayn, presented by Indra’s Net Theater. \u003ccite>(Irene Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Copenhagen’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Frayn, Indra’s Net Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From science fiction to scientists, Bay Area Theater is carving out a space for scientific discourse of many kinds, and Indra’s Net Theater is at the forefront. As a company focused on producing plays about hard science, their characters include Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Shrinivasa Ramanujan. This year they’re reprising their successful 2013 production, \u003cem>Copenhagen\u003c/em>—a play about a secret meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg to discuss the viability of an atomic bomb. After new information about the historic meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg came to light in 2018, Michael Frayn made some changes to his Tony Award-winning script to reflect the additional material. This is the Bay Area premiere of the newly revised script, and a chance to revisit this ethical dilemma as it plays out in the afterlife. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 19, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://www.indrasnettheater.com/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Reed in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s world premiere, ‘Becky Nurse.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Becky Nurse’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sarah Ruhl, Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrestling with the complex reverberations of the Salem Witch trials through the eyes of a present-day descendant of Rebecca Nurse, one of the wrongfully accused and murdered, this world premiere production ties the two together with dark comedy and a magickal reckoning. Written by Sarah Ruhl, an award-winning playwright whose deft and inspired comedies have been produced five other times on the Berkeley Rep stage, and starring Pamela Reed in the titular role, \u003cem>Becky Nurse \u003c/em>will provide a bracing antidote to the “holiday spirit” with its nods to the occult, female power, and the art of speaking out. (\u003cem>Previews from Dec. 12, show runs through Jan. 26, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1920/14545.asp\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-768x483.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1200x754.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1920x1207.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Trout as Alice in ‘Vinegar Tom,’ by Caryl Churchill, presented by Shotgun Players. \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Vinegar Tom’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Caryl Churchill, Shotgun Players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the occult and female power, Caryl Churchill’s exploration of witchy women \u003cem>Vinegar Tom\u003c/em> gets the Shotgun Players treatment this month on the Ashby Stage. Directed by Ariel Craft, with music direction by Daniel Alley and original music by songwriter Diana Lawrence, this audacious nod to Brechtian “epic theater” examines the ruling power’s propensity to demonize its challengers—one witch trial and contemporary ballad at a time. Celebrate the continuation of the Bay Area’s spontaneous Caryl Churchill revival with the fourth play of hers to be produced this year on area stages, with a fifth to open at Magic Theatre next April. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 6, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2FPuyCJ\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-960x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Devin A. Cunningham and Funmi Lola in the African-American Shakespeare Company's annual presentation of 'Cinderella.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devin A. Cunningham and Funmi Lola in the African-American Shakespeare Company’s annual presentation of ‘Cinderella.’ \u003ccite>(Lance Huntley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Cinderella’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By the African American Shakespeare Company\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fun to spend time with family during the holidays, but there are only so many times one can bring the kids to the \u003cem>Nutcracker\u003c/em> before “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” imprints itself permanently into your auditory cortex. Spare yourself and take the kiddies instead to \u003cem>Cinderella\u003c/em>, presented by the African American Shakespeare Company. This traditional offering, now in its 18th year, is an elegant, big-hearted foray into a world of lovers, dreamers, and fairy magic (not the sugar plum kind) sprinkled throughout. This year’s action-packed weekend of shows also includes an activity-filled afternoon tea with a meet-and-greet opportunity with the cast, and treats for all. Directed by Sherri Young. (Runs Dec. 20-22. \u003ca href=\"http://www.african-americanshakes.org/productions/cinderella/\">Details here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The willingness of audiences to suspend disbelief gives live theater the ability to explore unfamiliar and speculative terrain, even from a stage set prosaically with the trappings of a middle-class household. In Suzan Lori-Parks’ \u003cem>White Noise\u003c/em>, which runs through Nov. 10 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, we’re thrown headfirst into the improbable scenario of four friends embarking on an experiment with modern-day slavery. It’s the kind of experimental philosophical puzzle that live theater feels especially suited to exploring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four characters—two male, two female; two black, two white—are busy confronting the ways in which their reality is falling short of their aspirations. Leo (Chris Herbie Holland) is a visual artist who’s finding it increasingly impossible to sleep, and therefore create. His girlfriend Dawn (Therese Barbato) is a lawyer who feels like she should be hired as a partner, but doesn’t want to stay with her dead-end firm. Their pals, fellow mixed-race couple Ralph (Nick Dillenburg) and Misha (Aimé Donna Kelly), are similarly frustrated as an adjunct professor passed over for tenure and a livestream personality, respectively. It all feels deliberately mundane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise2-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise2-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Herbie Holland (Leo) and Therese Barbato (Dawn) in Berkeley Rep’s production of ‘White Noise.’ \u003ccite>(Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But mundanity is not a hallmark of Lori-Parks’ work, and almost without warning she has Leo propose the preposterous during a friendly round of bowling. What if he were to sell himself temporarily as a black slave to Ralph, his white friend who just happens to have a large trust fund at his disposal? It’s an audacious proposal that immediately elicits a panicked reaction from his friends. But Leo’s mind is made up; he’s even had a contract drawn up. For the biblically-significant number of 40 days, Leo will exile himself to the wilderness of servitude, and in return, he’ll gain the peace of mind that being under the “protection” of a “big dog” will bring him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consent isn’t really a central theme in the play, but a question this scenario inadvertently raised for me is: What if the characters had taken the time to include some sort of safeword in Leo’s slave contract? Master-slave relationships are a working reality in the kink community, which might have supplied a blueprint for Leo’s idea. Instead, Leo gets his contract drawn up by a lawyer who specializes in prenups. This leads to a series of escalating abuses of power on the part of Ralph that Leo has no way to check, and has not prepared himself mentally to face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Practically before the ink is dry on the signed contract, Ralph begins adding “amendments” to it, further curtailing Leo’s words, actions, and ability to protest, and granting himself the unconditional permission to “discipline” his new property. Scratch the surface of any frustrated white man and you’ll find a supremacist waiting to emerge, Lori-Parks seems to suggest. Where this production falters is in its effort to make that idea feel revelatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise4-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise4-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise4-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Dillenburg (Ralph) and Aimé Donna Kelly (Misha) in Berkeley Rep’s production of ‘White Noise.’ \u003ccite>(Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the direction of Jaki Bradley, each character’s emotional disconnect is so profound that even the most charged lines are sapped of strength. When an aggrieved Ralph describes his university’s decision to deny him tenure, he announces that he’ll “kill them all” with the affectless delivery of a man asking for salt. When Leo tries to justify his radical proposal by referencing his “unarticulated self-loathing,” he sounds as if he’s quoting from a textbook on race relations rather than a genuine place of personal pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when alone on stage, the actors’ character-defining monologues sound partly contrived, partly rote—and whether by accident or design, the play’s downward spiral into depravity feels strangely quotidian. The strongest statements tend to be made visually rather than uttered. An antique slave collar of rusted spikes and malevolent intent. A video projection (designed by Alexander V. Nichols) of the white noise that once helped Leo to sleep, and now prevents him from accessing his creativity—spreading across the walls and eventually encompassing the whole stage. A calendar of 40 days dominating the living area, slashes of a black marker indicating each day closer to freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 798px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13867751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise7.jpg 798w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise7-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/WhiteNoise7-768x1155.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Dillenburg (Ralph) and Chris Herbie Holland (Leo) in Berkeley Rep’s production of ‘White Noise.’ \u003ccite>(Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What never feels commonplace are the questions the play tackles. Who are we in relation to each other? How do the traumas of the past carry themselves into the future? What does true liberation look like, and what will it take to get us as a nation to that place? And what are we, who are we, liberating ourselves from? Each other? The system? Our own inflated expectations of what it means to be free?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, we’re confronted by two major transgressions on the part of Ralph, neither of which are forgivable, and one of which is outright criminal. But because we never developed much in the way of empathy for him, nor for Leo, the impact of his crimes is blunted, diffused. Like the white noise referenced in the play’s title, Ralph’s actions feel as if they could just blend into the background. And perhaps that’s the play’s biggest shock—that such blatant evil can feel so ordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘White Noise’ plays through Nov. 10 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1920/14544.asp\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The willingness of audiences to suspend disbelief gives live theater the ability to explore unfamiliar and speculative terrain, even from a stage set prosaically with the trappings of a middle-class household. In Suzan Lori-Parks’ \u003cem>White Noise\u003c/em>, which runs through Nov. 10 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, we’re thrown headfirst into the improbable scenario of four friends embarking on an experiment with modern-day slavery. It’s the kind of experimental philosophical puzzle that live theater feels especially suited to exploring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four characters—two male, two female; two black, two white—are busy confronting the ways in which their reality is falling short of their aspirations. Leo (Chris Herbie Holland) is a visual artist who’s finding it increasingly impossible to sleep, and therefore create. His girlfriend Dawn (Therese Barbato) is a lawyer who feels like she should be hired as a partner, but doesn’t want to stay with her dead-end firm. Their pals, fellow mixed-race couple Ralph (Nick Dillenburg) and Misha (Aimé Donna Kelly), are similarly frustrated as an adjunct professor passed over for tenure and a livestream personality, respectively. 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What if he were to sell himself temporarily as a black slave to Ralph, his white friend who just happens to have a large trust fund at his disposal? It’s an audacious proposal that immediately elicits a panicked reaction from his friends. But Leo’s mind is made up; he’s even had a contract drawn up. For the biblically-significant number of 40 days, Leo will exile himself to the wilderness of servitude, and in return, he’ll gain the peace of mind that being under the “protection” of a “big dog” will bring him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consent isn’t really a central theme in the play, but a question this scenario inadvertently raised for me is: What if the characters had taken the time to include some sort of safeword in Leo’s slave contract? Master-slave relationships are a working reality in the kink community, which might have supplied a blueprint for Leo’s idea. Instead, Leo gets his contract drawn up by a lawyer who specializes in prenups. 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"content": "\u003cp>By now, you’ve probably heard that \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://hamilton.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamilton\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is in town, running through January of next year. You may have also heard that \u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/shows/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is coming in October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845883/the-curran-at-a-crossroads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">possibly running for three or more years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what of all the other great theater in the shadow of the blockbusters? This summer, the Bay Area is home to an array of the stellar productions, from big musicals to small dramas. Below, we round up the best summertime theater to see on opera stages, black boxes and even on the sidewalk—which, in the Bay Area, is often a stage unto itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857960\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-800x686.jpg\" alt=\"David Breitbarth in Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-800x686.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-768x659.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-1020x875.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Breitbarth in Eugène Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros’ at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater. \u003ccite>(Cliff Roles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Rhinocerous’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>May 29–June 23, 2019\u003cbr>\nGeary Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1819_season/rhinoceros.highResolutionDisplay.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist masterpiece involves the inhabitants of a small French town transforming, one by one, into rhinos. But the play’s allegories to fascism—and the characterization of those who oppose it as paranoid—could not be any more relevant to the United States in 2019. Staged by ACT, which last year put \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849904/a-day-at-the-beach-interrupted-by-two-giant-lizards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giant lizards on the stage in Edward Albee’s \u003cem>Seascape\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003cem>Rhinocerous\u003c/em> is not only a marvelous study in conformity, but a consistently fun stampede through the possibilities of set and wardrobe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Deri'Andra Tucker in the touring production of 'Rent.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-768x529.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deri’Andra Tucker in the touring production of ‘Rent.’ \u003ccite>(Carol Rosegg)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Rent’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 14–23, 2019\u003cbr>\nGolden Gate Theatre, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The retelling of \u003cem>La bohème\u003c/em> that swept the world in the 1990s gets the 20th anniversary tour it deserves, including this very quick stop in San Francisco. \u003cem>Rent\u003c/em> is particularly resonant in the expensive Bay Area, where living in warehouses and off-the-grid spaces is a necessity for many, and the turmoil of HIV/AIDS hits close to home. If you still get chills at the opening chords of “Seasons of Love,” don’t sleep on this one-week-only run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857974\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"J'Nai Bridges plays the lead role in 'Carmen' at SF Opera this June.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J’Nai Bridges plays the lead role in ‘Carmen’ at SF Opera this June. \u003ccite>(S. Richards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Carmen’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 5–29, 2019\u003cbr>\nWar Memorial Opera House, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://sfopera.com/1819season/carmen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You already know more songs from \u003cem>Carmen\u003c/em> than you think you know (thanks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wsx22WxWOc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday morning cartoons\u003c/a>), and if you’re daunted by the marathon of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835968/how-crazy-do-you-have-to-be-to-sit-through-15-hours-of-opera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longer operas\u003c/a>, Bizet’s eternal tale of a woman who dares to live freely clocks in at under three hours. Add to it Francesca Zambello’s modern production, James Gaffigan conducting the orchestra and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MMKJaIHes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">basketball player-turned-opera star J’Nai Bridges\u003c/a> (pictured above) in the title role, and you’ve got a summertime opera that even those who \u003cem>think\u003c/em> they hate opera can enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The cast of 'Kiss My Aztec!' at Berkeley Rep, directed by Tony Taccone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of ‘Kiss My Aztec!’ at Berkeley Rep, directed by Tony Taccone. \u003ccite>(Cheshire Isaacs/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Kiss My Aztec!’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>May 28–July 21, 2019\u003cbr>\nRoda Theatre, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1819/13384.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Written by John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone, this world-premiere musical has more than a whiff of \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em> for Latin America: a history lesson of resistance in Spanish-occupied Mesoamerica told through salsa, hip-hop, merengue and funk, with a blend of 16th-century dialect and modern slang. Taccone and Leguizamo previously worked together on \u003cem>Latin History for Morons\u003c/em>, but this one’s special: it’s Taccone’s final production as artistic director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12700435/berkeley-rep-artistic-director-tony-taccone-announces-departure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after 33 years at Berkeley Rep\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13858009\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>May 22–June 16, 2019\u003cbr>\nBruns Amphitheater, Orinda\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://calshakes.org/make/a-midsummer-nights-dream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Shakes, the region’s premier purveyors of the Bard, bring this Shakespeare favorite to life this summer with all the sprites, dukes, queens and faeries you’ve come to know and love. It’s easy to forget just how damn \u003cem>fun\u003c/em> the action is in \u003cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em>, and with costume by Ásta Bennie Hostetter and set by Nina Ball, the visuals are sure to be dazzling. Tyne Rafaeli directs in the picturesque outdoor Bruns Amphitheater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Last year’s champions of ShortLived, The Geek Show, who won for their piece 'No Country for Old Henchmen.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last year’s champions of ShortLived, The Geek Show, who won for their piece ‘No Country for Old Henchmen.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy PIanoFight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘ShortLived VII’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 14–Sept. 7, 2019\u003cbr>\nPianoFight and The Strand, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.pianofight.com/shortlived-viii/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing the limits of theatrical possibility, \u003cem>ShortLived\u003c/em> is a marathon \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>-esque race to a $5,000 check and eternal Bay Area glory. This year’s audience-judged competition features 48 short plays running over the course of 8 weeks, and then a winner-take-all finals on Sept. 6 and 7. If you want to take a dip into the rampant creativity of Bay Area theater—and see some fun, charming competition along the way—you can’t do much better than this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"(L to R) Lady Malavendra, Red Velvet, and Dee O’s Mío in 'Dollhouse Monsters.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Lady Malavendra, Red Velvet and Dee O’s Mío in ‘Dollhouse Monsters.’ \u003ccite>(Ross Pearson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Dollhouse Monsters’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 12–27, 2019\u003cbr>\nExit Stage Left, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.theexit.org/dollhouse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, burlesque is everywhere, thanks to an ongoing vaudeville-circus-steampunk revival especially resonant here on the Barbary Coast. And while body positivity has long been a staple of modern burlesque, the ladies of DIVA Or Die Burlesque take that introspection further in \u003cem>Dollhouse Monsters\u003c/em>, a half-theater, half-burlesque show that examines our inner behaviors and secrets, why we have them, and why we keep them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857967\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SOMAQueerWalking-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SOMAQueerWalking-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SOMAQueerWalking-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SOMAQueerWalking-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SOMAQueerWalking-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SOMAQueerWalking-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SOMAQueerWalking.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Hayes, Brian Freeman, Marga Gomez, J. Miko Thomas a.k.a. Landa Lakes for OUT of Site SOMA. \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘OUT of Site: SOMA’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 8–16, 2019\u003cbr>\nHoward Langton Community Garden, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.eyezen.org/out-of-site-soma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>OUT of Site\u003c/em> has already brought history to life in North Beach, and now, the theatrical walking tour series alights South of Market for a reevaluation of the neighborhood’s LGBTQ contributions. The Castro gets most of the attention, but as \u003cem>OUT of Site\u003c/em> points out, SOMA is home to hidden stories, “from Native American Two-Spirit culture to the Folsom Street Fair, Lesbian auto-mechanics to labor activists and dock workers to drag queens.” Marga Gomez heads up a cast that should be illuminating and entertaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857973\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/TheFlick-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"'The Flick' won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/TheFlick-800x475.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/TheFlick-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/TheFlick-768x456.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/TheFlick-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/TheFlick.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Flick’ won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u003ccite>(Shotgun Players)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The Flick’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Aug. 22–Sept. 22, 2019\u003cbr>\nAshby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2rgcffY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who work at movie theaters are a specific kind of nerd: exceedingly knowledgable about the minutiae of fictional film, but open to letting real life take over with gale force when it wants to. The winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, \u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em> is about three employees of a suburban movie theater in Massachusetts who still know how to run 35mm film projectors, with a script that follows their personal struggles which overlap in unexpected, humorous and heartbreaking fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/DragonTheatre-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Dragon Theatre stage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/DragonTheatre-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/DragonTheatre-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/DragonTheatre-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/DragonTheatre-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/DragonTheatre.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dragon Theatre stage. \u003ccite>(Dragon Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Redwood City Play Festival\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 8–16, 2019\u003cbr>\nDragon Theatre, Redwood City\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.fusetheatre.org/projects/rwc-festival/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A joint effort by Dragon Productions Theatre Company and Fuse Theatre, this festival of three one-act plays centers on issues of gender: \u003cem>Because I Went There\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Never Swim Alone\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Legal-Tender Loving Care\u003c/em>. Held in the heart of Redwood City’s downtown (time it right, and you could fit in the town’s surreal light show a block away in Courthouse Square), the plays should bring a good dose of social justice to the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By now, you’ve probably heard that \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://hamilton.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamilton\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is in town, running through January of next year. You may have also heard that \u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/shows/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is coming in October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845883/the-curran-at-a-crossroads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">possibly running for three or more years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what of all the other great theater in the shadow of the blockbusters? This summer, the Bay Area is home to an array of the stellar productions, from big musicals to small dramas. Below, we round up the best summertime theater to see on opera stages, black boxes and even on the sidewalk—which, in the Bay Area, is often a stage unto itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857960\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-800x686.jpg\" alt=\"David Breitbarth in Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-800x686.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-768x659.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous-1020x875.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Plays.Rhinocerous.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Breitbarth in Eugène Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros’ at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater. \u003ccite>(Cliff Roles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Rhinocerous’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>May 29–June 23, 2019\u003cbr>\nGeary Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1819_season/rhinoceros.highResolutionDisplay.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist masterpiece involves the inhabitants of a small French town transforming, one by one, into rhinos. But the play’s allegories to fascism—and the characterization of those who oppose it as paranoid—could not be any more relevant to the United States in 2019. Staged by ACT, which last year put \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849904/a-day-at-the-beach-interrupted-by-two-giant-lizards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giant lizards on the stage in Edward Albee’s \u003cem>Seascape\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003cem>Rhinocerous\u003c/em> is not only a marvelous study in conformity, but a consistently fun stampede through the possibilities of set and wardrobe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Deri'Andra Tucker in the touring production of 'Rent.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-768x529.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Rent.SHN_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deri’Andra Tucker in the touring production of ‘Rent.’ \u003ccite>(Carol Rosegg)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Rent’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 14–23, 2019\u003cbr>\nGolden Gate Theatre, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.shnsf.com/Online/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The retelling of \u003cem>La bohème\u003c/em> that swept the world in the 1990s gets the 20th anniversary tour it deserves, including this very quick stop in San Francisco. \u003cem>Rent\u003c/em> is particularly resonant in the expensive Bay Area, where living in warehouses and off-the-grid spaces is a necessity for many, and the turmoil of HIV/AIDS hits close to home. If you still get chills at the opening chords of “Seasons of Love,” don’t sleep on this one-week-only run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857974\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"J'Nai Bridges plays the lead role in 'Carmen' at SF Opera this June.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/BRIDGES_JNai_S.-Richards_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J’Nai Bridges plays the lead role in ‘Carmen’ at SF Opera this June. \u003ccite>(S. Richards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Carmen’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 5–29, 2019\u003cbr>\nWar Memorial Opera House, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://sfopera.com/1819season/carmen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You already know more songs from \u003cem>Carmen\u003c/em> than you think you know (thanks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wsx22WxWOc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday morning cartoons\u003c/a>), and if you’re daunted by the marathon of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835968/how-crazy-do-you-have-to-be-to-sit-through-15-hours-of-opera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longer operas\u003c/a>, Bizet’s eternal tale of a woman who dares to live freely clocks in at under three hours. Add to it Francesca Zambello’s modern production, James Gaffigan conducting the orchestra and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MMKJaIHes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">basketball player-turned-opera star J’Nai Bridges\u003c/a> (pictured above) in the title role, and you’ve got a summertime opera that even those who \u003cem>think\u003c/em> they hate opera can enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The cast of 'Kiss My Aztec!' at Berkeley Rep, directed by Tony Taccone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Aztec.CAST_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of ‘Kiss My Aztec!’ at Berkeley Rep, directed by Tony Taccone. \u003ccite>(Cheshire Isaacs/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Kiss My Aztec!’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>May 28–July 21, 2019\u003cbr>\nRoda Theatre, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1819/13384.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Written by John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone, this world-premiere musical has more than a whiff of \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em> for Latin America: a history lesson of resistance in Spanish-occupied Mesoamerica told through salsa, hip-hop, merengue and funk, with a blend of 16th-century dialect and modern slang. Taccone and Leguizamo previously worked together on \u003cem>Latin History for Morons\u003c/em>, but this one’s special: it’s Taccone’s final production as artistic director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12700435/berkeley-rep-artistic-director-tony-taccone-announces-departure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after 33 years at Berkeley Rep\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13858009\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/MidsummerNightDream.CalShakes.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>May 22–June 16, 2019\u003cbr>\nBruns Amphitheater, Orinda\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://calshakes.org/make/a-midsummer-nights-dream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Shakes, the region’s premier purveyors of the Bard, bring this Shakespeare favorite to life this summer with all the sprites, dukes, queens and faeries you’ve come to know and love. It’s easy to forget just how damn \u003cem>fun\u003c/em> the action is in \u003cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em>, and with costume by Ásta Bennie Hostetter and set by Nina Ball, the visuals are sure to be dazzling. Tyne Rafaeli directs in the picturesque outdoor Bruns Amphitheater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Last year’s champions of ShortLived, The Geek Show, who won for their piece 'No Country for Old Henchmen.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/ShortLived.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last year’s champions of ShortLived, The Geek Show, who won for their piece ‘No Country for Old Henchmen.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy PIanoFight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘ShortLived VII’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 14–Sept. 7, 2019\u003cbr>\nPianoFight and The Strand, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.pianofight.com/shortlived-viii/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing the limits of theatrical possibility, \u003cem>ShortLived\u003c/em> is a marathon \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>-esque race to a $5,000 check and eternal Bay Area glory. This year’s audience-judged competition features 48 short plays running over the course of 8 weeks, and then a winner-take-all finals on Sept. 6 and 7. If you want to take a dip into the rampant creativity of Bay Area theater—and see some fun, charming competition along the way—you can’t do much better than this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13858015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"(L to R) Lady Malavendra, Red Velvet, and Dee O’s Mío in 'Dollhouse Monsters.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Dollhousemonsters.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Lady Malavendra, Red Velvet and Dee O’s Mío in ‘Dollhouse Monsters.’ \u003ccite>(Ross Pearson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Dollhouse Monsters’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>July 12–27, 2019\u003cbr>\nExit Stage Left, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.theexit.org/dollhouse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, burlesque is everywhere, thanks to an ongoing vaudeville-circus-steampunk revival especially resonant here on the Barbary Coast. 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"content": "\u003cp>New York is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own distinct personality. And Five Points, now fully subsumed into Manhattan’s Chinatown, was a notorious place in its time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home to the nation’s first tenement buildings—overcrowded towers of tiny apartments where new Irish emigrants lived side-by-side with a community of free blacks, single women, and other outliers—Five Points was largely dismissed by the Uptown establishment, even as the wealthy traveled there specifically to “slum.” But for thousands in the 1860s, Five Points was home, and within its closely quartered microcosm, a quiet revolution was taking place. Against the norms of the day, interracial marriages and friendships were common, and watering holes such as the female-operated Almack’s Dance Hall were places open to all: blacks, whites, and visitors alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13848507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS8_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A day in the life on Paradise Square. (Front row, L to R) Hailee Kaleem Wright (Ensemble), Karen Burthwright (Ensemble), and Sidney Dupont (William Henry Lane); (Back row, L to R) Chloé Davis (Ensemble), Sir Brock Warren (Ensemble), Jamal Christopher Douglas (Ensemble), and Jacobi Hall (Ensemble). \u003ccite>(Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Paradise Square—\u003c/em>which opened at Berkeley Rep on Thursday—much of the musical is set in a dance hall such as Almack’s, run jointly by “Gentle” Annie (Madeline Trumble), the sister of the Irish proprietor Willie (Brendan Wall), who has been called to the Civil War, and his beloved, Nelly (Christina Sajous), a free woman of color from Louisiana. As times are hard, business isn’t exactly booming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter American songwriter Stephen Foster (Jacob Fishel) looking for a job as piano player, and suddenly the bar fills with interested ears. That Foster must pretend to not be himself, as Nelly despises his regrettable plantation songs, doesn’t faze him. He’s eager to leave that part of his career in the past and immerse himself in the America of new possibilities, as embodied by the rough-and-tumble patrons of the saloon. With Foster at the keys, and the superior dance skills of Annie’s immigrant cousin Owen (A.J. Shively) and fugitive slave William Henry Lane (Sidney Dupont), the saloon stays busy. For a moment in time, all seems to be going well. Until, of course, it doesn’t, and “Paradise” is ripped asunder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13848591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sidney Dupont (William Henry Lane) and A.J. Shively (Owen Duignan) cut a rug for (background, L to R) Jacob Fishel (Stephen Foster), Daren A. Herbert (Rev. Samuel E. Cornish), and Madeline Trumble (Annie O’Brien) in ‘Paradise Square’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Characterized as much by their signature dance moves as their lines or reinterpreted Stephen Foster lyrics, the cast’s emotional terrain is frequently expressed physically. In the opening scene, a contingent of Civil War conscripts dance in slow motion with their loved ones and neighbors, a melancholy goodbye. In a stunning tableau crafted with saturated pools of light (courtesy of Donald Holder) and the elegant, muscular precision of Jacobi Hall (choreography by Bill T. Jones), the anguish of a life in bondage is reenacted through his every stretched sinew. A frenetic, high-stakes dance competition dominates the second act. The cast is blessed with a slew of these limber dancers—standouts including Garrett Coleman, Chloé Davis, Shively and Dupont—and there’s rarely a moment in the show where someone is not in glorious, urgent motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13848509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Did somebody say dance competition? (L to R) Jason Oremus (Ensemble) and Garrett Coleman (Ensemble), and the company of ‘Paradise Square’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The music and lyrics (arranged by Larry Kirwan and Jason Howland, lyrics by Nathan Tysen), all based on Foster’s extensive oeuvre, are both refreshingly revelatory and earworm familiar. Especially haunting, as the Civil War rages on, are the songs of war and death, reworked to reflect the inner torments and outer struggles of an underclass pushed to their limits of tolerance. When A.J. Shively sings that he will not die in the springtime, it morphs from introspective ballad to battlecry of defiance. Foster’s love songs are among his most popular offerings, and the feminist reinterpretations of both “Gentle Annie” and “Janey with the Light Brown Hair” are among the show’s best. William Henry Lane’s tribute to his love, “Angelina Baker,” gives a voice to the language of the heart. And a gracious rendition of “Beautiful Dreamer,” perhaps Foster’s last song, contains the perfect, shimmering note upon which to end the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13848504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Fishel as Stephen Foster in the world premiere of ‘Paradise Square’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where the show does suffer is in the balancing act between storytelling and messaging (with Larry Kirwan, Craig Lucas, and Marcus Gardley all taking a turn on the bookwriting). Not only must our onstage Stephen Foster justifiably repent for the racist overtones of his bestselling plantation songs, he’s then taken to task for presuming to tell someone else’s story through a later song (later only in context of the play; the actual song was written more than ten years earlier). It’s not an invalid point—except that the entire production of \u003cem>Paradise Square\u003c/em> is an attempt to tell the stories of others through song. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>New York is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own distinct personality. And Five Points, now fully subsumed into Manhattan’s Chinatown, was a notorious place in its time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home to the nation’s first tenement buildings—overcrowded towers of tiny apartments where new Irish emigrants lived side-by-side with a community of free blacks, single women, and other outliers—Five Points was largely dismissed by the Uptown establishment, even as the wealthy traveled there specifically to “slum.” But for thousands in the 1860s, Five Points was home, and within its closely quartered microcosm, a quiet revolution was taking place. Against the norms of the day, interracial marriages and friendships were common, and watering holes such as the female-operated Almack’s Dance Hall were places open to all: blacks, whites, and visitors alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13848507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS8_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A day in the life on Paradise Square. (Front row, L to R) Hailee Kaleem Wright (Ensemble), Karen Burthwright (Ensemble), and Sidney Dupont (William Henry Lane); (Back row, L to R) Chloé Davis (Ensemble), Sir Brock Warren (Ensemble), Jamal Christopher Douglas (Ensemble), and Jacobi Hall (Ensemble). \u003ccite>(Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Paradise Square—\u003c/em>which opened at Berkeley Rep on Thursday—much of the musical is set in a dance hall such as Almack’s, run jointly by “Gentle” Annie (Madeline Trumble), the sister of the Irish proprietor Willie (Brendan Wall), who has been called to the Civil War, and his beloved, Nelly (Christina Sajous), a free woman of color from Louisiana. As times are hard, business isn’t exactly booming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter American songwriter Stephen Foster (Jacob Fishel) looking for a job as piano player, and suddenly the bar fills with interested ears. That Foster must pretend to not be himself, as Nelly despises his regrettable plantation songs, doesn’t faze him. He’s eager to leave that part of his career in the past and immerse himself in the America of new possibilities, as embodied by the rough-and-tumble patrons of the saloon. With Foster at the keys, and the superior dance skills of Annie’s immigrant cousin Owen (A.J. Shively) and fugitive slave William Henry Lane (Sidney Dupont), the saloon stays busy. For a moment in time, all seems to be going well. Until, of course, it doesn’t, and “Paradise” is ripped asunder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13848591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS4_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sidney Dupont (William Henry Lane) and A.J. Shively (Owen Duignan) cut a rug for (background, L to R) Jacob Fishel (Stephen Foster), Daren A. Herbert (Rev. Samuel E. Cornish), and Madeline Trumble (Annie O’Brien) in ‘Paradise Square’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Characterized as much by their signature dance moves as their lines or reinterpreted Stephen Foster lyrics, the cast’s emotional terrain is frequently expressed physically. In the opening scene, a contingent of Civil War conscripts dance in slow motion with their loved ones and neighbors, a melancholy goodbye. In a stunning tableau crafted with saturated pools of light (courtesy of Donald Holder) and the elegant, muscular precision of Jacobi Hall (choreography by Bill T. Jones), the anguish of a life in bondage is reenacted through his every stretched sinew. A frenetic, high-stakes dance competition dominates the second act. The cast is blessed with a slew of these limber dancers—standouts including Garrett Coleman, Chloé Davis, Shively and Dupont—and there’s rarely a moment in the show where someone is not in glorious, urgent motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13848509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_PS13_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Did somebody say dance competition? (L to R) Jason Oremus (Ensemble) and Garrett Coleman (Ensemble), and the company of ‘Paradise Square’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The music and lyrics (arranged by Larry Kirwan and Jason Howland, lyrics by Nathan Tysen), all based on Foster’s extensive oeuvre, are both refreshingly revelatory and earworm familiar. Especially haunting, as the Civil War rages on, are the songs of war and death, reworked to reflect the inner torments and outer struggles of an underclass pushed to their limits of tolerance. When A.J. Shively sings that he will not die in the springtime, it morphs from introspective ballad to battlecry of defiance. Foster’s love songs are among his most popular offerings, and the feminist reinterpretations of both “Gentle Annie” and “Janey with the Light Brown Hair” are among the show’s best. William Henry Lane’s tribute to his love, “Angelina Baker,” gives a voice to the language of the heart. And a gracious rendition of “Beautiful Dreamer,” perhaps Foster’s last song, contains the perfect, shimmering note upon which to end the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13848504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_JacobFishelAsStephenFoster_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Fishel as Stephen Foster in the world premiere of ‘Paradise Square’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where the show does suffer is in the balancing act between storytelling and messaging (with Larry Kirwan, Craig Lucas, and Marcus Gardley all taking a turn on the bookwriting). Not only must our onstage Stephen Foster justifiably repent for the racist overtones of his bestselling plantation songs, he’s then taken to task for presuming to tell someone else’s story through a later song (later only in context of the play; the actual song was written more than ten years earlier). It’s not an invalid point—except that the entire production of \u003cem>Paradise Square\u003c/em> is an attempt to tell the stories of others through song. And if one of the heralded purposes of art is to hold a mirror up to the world(s) we live in, and to tell the stories of the many, determining who does and does not have the “right” to do so is always going to be a contentious sticking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13848510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_Christina-SajousAsNellyFreeman_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_Christina-SajousAsNellyFreeman_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_Christina-SajousAsNellyFreeman_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_Christina-SajousAsNellyFreeman_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_Christina-SajousAsNellyFreeman_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_Christina-SajousAsNellyFreeman_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-1-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_Christina-SajousAsNellyFreeman_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/ParadiseSquare_Christina-SajousAsNellyFreeman_credit_AlessandraMelloBerkeleyRepertoryTheatre-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Sajous as Nelly Freeman in ‘Paradise Square’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for that final shimmering note of “Beautiful Dreamer?” It’s buried beneath an ill-conceived spate of third-person exposition detailing the historical significance of the Five Points neighborhood, as if we hadn’t just watched a two-and-a-half hour show embodying that same significance. 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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. The two worked together during Pfaelzer’s tenure at ACT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent decades, the Bay Area’s two biggest theater companies have more or less kept their distance from each other. But with Pfaelzer’s recruitment in the East Bay, MacKinnon hopes that will change. “I can imagine doing exciting programming with Berkeley Rep,” MacKinnon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taccone will continue to lead Berkeley Rep through its 2018-19 season. He will direct the world premiere musical \u003cem>Kiss My Aztec!\u003c/em>, by John Leguizamo next spring.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-guide-2018\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13832925\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it’s the longer daylight hours, or a trace memory of childhood summers “off,” but whatever the reason, there’s no denying that summertime in the Bay Area is the time to play. And fortunately for those of us whose idea of a good time is a riveting monologue or imaginative mise-en-scène, we can spend both the warmer days outdoors and chillier evenings inside watching some of the best performers the Bay Area has to offer. Here are our top picks for summertime theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832476\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Nadine Malouf, Barzin Akhavan and Denmo Ibrahim in 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832476\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-960x638.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadine Malouf, Barzin Akhavan and Denmo Ibrahim in ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/ACT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>A Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>July 17–29\u003cbr>\nACT’s Geary Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1718_season/suns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>If you missed Carey Perloff and Ursula Rani Sarma’s smash 2017 adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s \u003cem>A Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c/em>, fret not. You can make up for it with this resurrection of the show, Perloff’s last hurrah at American Conservatory Theater, where she’s recently stepped down as artistic director after 26 years. Set in Afghanistan, this female-led work offers a look inside a Taliban-run Kabul through the intimate lens of a single household. It’s riveting, essential, transcendent drama, and an appropriate send-off for the woman who first ushered it onto the stage.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832483\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-800x893.jpg\" alt=\"FURY Factory\" width=\"800\" height=\"893\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-800x893.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-160x179.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-768x857.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-1020x1138.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-1075x1200.jpg 1075w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-1180x1317.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-960x1071.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-240x268.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-375x419.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-520x580.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein.jpg 1352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FURY Factory \u003ccite>(Bob Epstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>FURY Factory\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>July 10–22\u003cbr>\nZ Below, NOHspace, and Joe Goode Annex (San Francisco) and The Flight Deck (Oakland)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://foolsfury.org/fury/furyfactory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a> \u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Every other year, experimental theater company fools FURY invites like-minded ensembles from all around the country for a festival of devised and collaborative ensemble work, which they’ve dubbed FURY Factory. Not only does FURY Factory provided opportunities for Bay Area audiences to connect with the work of such nationally-recognized companies as Pig Iron and Teatro Luna, but it ably showcases the wild diversity of Bay Area-based performance ensembles, from dance companies to clowns to the purely uncategorizable. And this year, to ensure that audiences on both sides of the Bay will get a shot at FURY, they’re expanding their programming to include Oakland’s Flight Deck as one of their venues.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832493\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-800x1202.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Hennessy in 'Crotch'\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832493\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-798x1200.jpg 798w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-960x1443.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-240x361.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-375x564.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-520x782.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Hennessy in ‘Crotch’ \u003ccite>(Ian Douglas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Crotch\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>June 7–9\u003cbr>\nThe Lab, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.thelab.org/projects/2018/6/7/keith-hennessy-crotch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a> \u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Looking for something out of the box? At The Lab, in the Mission District, San Francisco queer performance artist Keith Hennessy dusts off his Bessie award-winning \u003cem>Crotch\u003c/em> for its 10-year anniversary. A powerful and playful work that uses the German Fluxus artist/activist Joseph Beuys as a muse, and combines raw physicality, installation art, a lecture in art history and community ritual, this rare revival will inspire.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832495\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Chung and Marissa Skudlarek, 2017's Shortlived winners, performing 'All the Worlds Are Stages,' written by Ruben Gijalva & directed by Alejandro Torres. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Chung and Marissa Skudlarek, 2017’s Shortlived winners, performing ‘All the Worlds Are Stages,’ written by Ruben Gijalva & directed by Alejandro Torres. \u003ccite>(Daniel Burke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>PianoFight’s Shortlived VII\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>June 14–Aug. 25\u003cbr>\nPianoFight’s Main Stage, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.pianofight.com/shortlived-vii/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Can theater-going be as thrilling as a high-stakes sporting match? The fine folks at PianoFight think so, and they’re willing to put up $5,000 to prove it. Attendees at the seventh annual ShortLived competition Thursday-Saturday, from mid-June to the end of August, will cheer 48 competitors into the final round, where the winning play of the year walks away with a $5,000 cash prize and bragging rights for life.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832504\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"Marga Gomez, who will star in 'King Of Cuba' \" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-960x632.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-375x247.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-520x342.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marga Gomez, who will star in ‘King Of Cuba’ \u003ccite>(Ian Douglas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>King of Cuba\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>July 21–Aug. 19\u003cbr>\nBerkeley City Club, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://centralworks.org/king-of-cuba/#showtab=details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Ushering its 60th world premiere production into the public eye, 27 year-old Central Works presents an adaptation of Cristina García’s (2003) novel \u003cem>King of Cuba\u003c/em>, as adapted by García herself as part of Central Works’ Writer’s Workshop. A comedic speculation of the fate of an aging Cuban dictator, “El Comandante,” and his nemesis Goyo, who plots against him from Miami, this brash imagining stars Bay Area comedy legend Marga Gomez—and Steve Ortiz as her would-be assassin, with live percussion from Havana-born “bongocero” Carlos Caro.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832507\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Francesca Faridany (The Angel) and Randy Harrison (Prior Walter) in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of 'Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francesca Faridany (The Angel) and Randy Harrison (Prior Walter) in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of ‘Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Angels in America \u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>Through July 22\u003cbr>\nBerkeley Rep, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1718/12033.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>It may have opened in May, but Berkeley Rep’s superlative production of Tony Kushner’s barrier-breaking \u003cem>Angels in America\u003c/em> runs through July 22, making it the summer’s hottest theater pick. Consisting of two epic plays running in repertory, each around three-and-a-half hours long, \u003cem>Angels\u003c/em> is definitely a commitment, but once you start watching, you may never want it to end. In fact, it’s recommended to clear the calendar and see a marathon day of both shows back-to-back (presented mostly on Saturdays). Consider it a mini-vacation to an exotic realm.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832513\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-800x1143.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Amarotico, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Michael Gene Sullivan and Keiko Shimosato Carreiro in 'Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical'\" width=\"800\" height=\"1143\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832513\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-800x1143.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-160x229.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-768x1097.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-1020x1457.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-840x1200.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-960x1371.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-240x343.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-375x536.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-520x743.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Amarotico, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Michael Gene Sullivan and Keiko Shimosato Carreiro in ‘Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical’ \u003ccite>(David Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>Various Locations\u003cbr>\nThrough Sept. 9\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmt.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>This summer, declare independence from specious “Independence Day” traditions that glorify war toys and frighten your pets. Then spend a leisurely afternoon with the San Francisco Mime Troupe in Dolores Park, where they open their 59th Season with company member Rotimi Agbabiaka’s \u003cem>Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical\u003c/em>. Like Easter Sunday with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, July 4 with the SFMT is an inclusive, surprisingly family-friendly reminder that the Bay Area is not Kansas, and if we wanna celebrate that most bellicose of American holidays with a comic musical about American socialism, then who’s to say we shouldn’t? (Perhaps the NEA, who pulled the Mime Troupe’s funding this season?) This year, it’s up to us to support them.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832540\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"James Ijames\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-1180x590.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-960x480.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-240x120.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-375x188.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-520x260.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Ijames \u003ccite>(Kim Carson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Shotgun Players’ \u003cem>White\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>July 6–Aug. 5\u003cbr>\nAshby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/4shmNu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>With this West Coast premiere of Pennsylvania-based playwright James Ijames’ provocative comedy about racial identity, cultural appropriation, fine art, and what it means to challenge the gatekeepers, Shotgun Players remains committed to new works with fresh takes on hot topics. In a farce reminiscent of the \u003ca href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/131687/i-amjoe-%20scanlan/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Scanlan/Donelle Woolford controversy\u003c/a> at the Whitney Biennial in 2014, \u003cem>White\u003c/em> imagines a scenario in which rising artist Gus (Adam Donovan), a white man, hires Vanessa (Santoya Fields), a black woman, to pretend to be the artist behind his work so he can get into a museum exhibition. What happens next surprises even them, and certainly the audience.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-guide-2018\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13832925\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HotSummer_300x300px-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it’s the longer daylight hours, or a trace memory of childhood summers “off,” but whatever the reason, there’s no denying that summertime in the Bay Area is the time to play. And fortunately for those of us whose idea of a good time is a riveting monologue or imaginative mise-en-scène, we can spend both the warmer days outdoors and chillier evenings inside watching some of the best performers the Bay Area has to offer. Here are our top picks for summertime theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832476\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Nadine Malouf, Barzin Akhavan and Denmo Ibrahim in 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832476\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-960x638.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/ACT_NadineMalouf_BarzinAkhavan_DenmoIbrahim_photo_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadine Malouf, Barzin Akhavan and Denmo Ibrahim in ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/ACT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>A Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>July 17–29\u003cbr>\nACT’s Geary Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1718_season/suns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>If you missed Carey Perloff and Ursula Rani Sarma’s smash 2017 adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s \u003cem>A Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c/em>, fret not. You can make up for it with this resurrection of the show, Perloff’s last hurrah at American Conservatory Theater, where she’s recently stepped down as artistic director after 26 years. Set in Afghanistan, this female-led work offers a look inside a Taliban-run Kabul through the intimate lens of a single household. It’s riveting, essential, transcendent drama, and an appropriate send-off for the woman who first ushered it onto the stage.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832483\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-800x893.jpg\" alt=\"FURY Factory\" width=\"800\" height=\"893\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-800x893.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-160x179.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-768x857.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-1020x1138.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-1075x1200.jpg 1075w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-1180x1317.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-960x1071.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-240x268.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-375x419.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein-520x580.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FURYFactory_13th-Floor.-Space-Pilots-in-Spaaaace.-Photo-by-Bob-Epstein.jpg 1352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FURY Factory \u003ccite>(Bob Epstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>FURY Factory\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>July 10–22\u003cbr>\nZ Below, NOHspace, and Joe Goode Annex (San Francisco) and The Flight Deck (Oakland)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://foolsfury.org/fury/furyfactory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a> \u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Every other year, experimental theater company fools FURY invites like-minded ensembles from all around the country for a festival of devised and collaborative ensemble work, which they’ve dubbed FURY Factory. Not only does FURY Factory provided opportunities for Bay Area audiences to connect with the work of such nationally-recognized companies as Pig Iron and Teatro Luna, but it ably showcases the wild diversity of Bay Area-based performance ensembles, from dance companies to clowns to the purely uncategorizable. And this year, to ensure that audiences on both sides of the Bay will get a shot at FURY, they’re expanding their programming to include Oakland’s Flight Deck as one of their venues.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832493\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-800x1202.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Hennessy in 'Crotch'\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832493\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-798x1200.jpg 798w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-960x1443.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-240x361.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-375x564.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas-520x782.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/TheLab_Keith-Hennessy.Crotch2.by-Ian-Douglas.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Hennessy in ‘Crotch’ \u003ccite>(Ian Douglas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Crotch\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>June 7–9\u003cbr>\nThe Lab, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.thelab.org/projects/2018/6/7/keith-hennessy-crotch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a> \u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Looking for something out of the box? At The Lab, in the Mission District, San Francisco queer performance artist Keith Hennessy dusts off his Bessie award-winning \u003cem>Crotch\u003c/em> for its 10-year anniversary. A powerful and playful work that uses the German Fluxus artist/activist Joseph Beuys as a muse, and combines raw physicality, installation art, a lecture in art history and community ritual, this rare revival will inspire.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832495\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Chung and Marissa Skudlarek, 2017's Shortlived winners, performing 'All the Worlds Are Stages,' written by Ruben Gijalva & directed by Alejandro Torres. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/PianoFightSHORTLIVED2017Winners_photoDanielBurke.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Chung and Marissa Skudlarek, 2017’s Shortlived winners, performing ‘All the Worlds Are Stages,’ written by Ruben Gijalva & directed by Alejandro Torres. \u003ccite>(Daniel Burke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>PianoFight’s Shortlived VII\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>June 14–Aug. 25\u003cbr>\nPianoFight’s Main Stage, San Francisco\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.pianofight.com/shortlived-vii/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Can theater-going be as thrilling as a high-stakes sporting match? The fine folks at PianoFight think so, and they’re willing to put up $5,000 to prove it. Attendees at the seventh annual ShortLived competition Thursday-Saturday, from mid-June to the end of August, will cheer 48 competitors into the final round, where the winning play of the year walks away with a $5,000 cash prize and bragging rights for life.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832504\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"Marga Gomez, who will star in 'King Of Cuba' \" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-960x632.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-375x247.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas-520x342.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CentralWorks_KingOfCuba_MargaGomezin_Pound_photo_IanDouglas.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marga Gomez, who will star in ‘King Of Cuba’ \u003ccite>(Ian Douglas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>King of Cuba\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>July 21–Aug. 19\u003cbr>\nBerkeley City Club, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://centralworks.org/king-of-cuba/#showtab=details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Ushering its 60th world premiere production into the public eye, 27 year-old Central Works presents an adaptation of Cristina García’s (2003) novel \u003cem>King of Cuba\u003c/em>, as adapted by García herself as part of Central Works’ Writer’s Workshop. A comedic speculation of the fate of an aging Cuban dictator, “El Comandante,” and his nemesis Goyo, who plots against him from Miami, this brash imagining stars Bay Area comedy legend Marga Gomez—and Steve Ortiz as her would-be assassin, with live percussion from Havana-born “bongocero” Carlos Caro.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832507\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Francesca Faridany (The Angel) and Randy Harrison (Prior Walter) in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of 'Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/AngelsSummer2-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francesca Faridany (The Angel) and Randy Harrison (Prior Walter) in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of ‘Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Angels in America \u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>Through July 22\u003cbr>\nBerkeley Rep, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1718/12033.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>It may have opened in May, but Berkeley Rep’s superlative production of Tony Kushner’s barrier-breaking \u003cem>Angels in America\u003c/em> runs through July 22, making it the summer’s hottest theater pick. Consisting of two epic plays running in repertory, each around three-and-a-half hours long, \u003cem>Angels\u003c/em> is definitely a commitment, but once you start watching, you may never want it to end. In fact, it’s recommended to clear the calendar and see a marathon day of both shows back-to-back (presented mostly on Saturdays). Consider it a mini-vacation to an exotic realm.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832513\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-800x1143.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Amarotico, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Michael Gene Sullivan and Keiko Shimosato Carreiro in 'Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical'\" width=\"800\" height=\"1143\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832513\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-800x1143.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-160x229.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-768x1097.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-1020x1457.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-840x1200.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-960x1371.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-240x343.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-375x536.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen-520x743.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SFMT_AndreAmarotico_LisaHori-Garcia_MichaelGeneSullivan_KeikoShimosatoCarreiro_photo_DavidAllen.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Amarotico, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Michael Gene Sullivan and Keiko Shimosato Carreiro in ‘Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical’ \u003ccite>(David Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>Various Locations\u003cbr>\nThrough Sept. 9\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmt.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>This summer, declare independence from specious “Independence Day” traditions that glorify war toys and frighten your pets. Then spend a leisurely afternoon with the San Francisco Mime Troupe in Dolores Park, where they open their 59th Season with company member Rotimi Agbabiaka’s \u003cem>Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical\u003c/em>. Like Easter Sunday with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, July 4 with the SFMT is an inclusive, surprisingly family-friendly reminder that the Bay Area is not Kansas, and if we wanna celebrate that most bellicose of American holidays with a comic musical about American socialism, then who’s to say we shouldn’t? (Perhaps the NEA, who pulled the Mime Troupe’s funding this season?) This year, it’s up to us to support them.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13832540\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"James Ijames\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13832540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-1180x590.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-960x480.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-240x120.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-375x188.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson-520x260.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/james-ijames-photo-by-kim-carson.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Ijames \u003ccite>(Kim Carson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Shotgun Players’ \u003cem>White\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>July 6–Aug. 5\u003cbr>\nAshby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/4shmNu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>With this West Coast premiere of Pennsylvania-based playwright James Ijames’ provocative comedy about racial identity, cultural appropriation, fine art, and what it means to challenge the gatekeepers, Shotgun Players remains committed to new works with fresh takes on hot topics. In a farce reminiscent of the \u003ca href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/131687/i-amjoe-%20scanlan/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Scanlan/Donelle Woolford controversy\u003c/a> at the Whitney Biennial in 2014, \u003cem>White\u003c/em> imagines a scenario in which rising artist Gus (Adam Donovan), a white man, hires Vanessa (Santoya Fields), a black woman, to pretend to be the artist behind his work so he can get into a museum exhibition. What happens next surprises even them, and certainly the audience.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Inspired partly by the success of Larry Kramer’s \u003cem>The Normal Heart\u003c/em>, a play steeped in the politics and the personal of the ongoing AIDS crisis, and partly by a dream playwright Tony Kushner once had of a dancer he knew, lying on his sickbed while an angel crashed through his ceiling, \u003cem>Angels in America \u003c/em>has \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-world-only-spins-forward-9781635571769/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a backstory\u003c/a> as sprawling and epic as the play itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually two plays in repertory — \u003cem>Millenium Approaches\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Perestroika\u003c/em>, each running around three and a half hours — \u003cem>Angels in America\u003c/em> tackles, among other themes, AIDS, progress vs. providence, the fickle twists of love, loyalty, and abandonment, and the spark of the divine that might be found in even the most venal of hosts. For theatergoers, it is high on most bucket lists of “must sees,” and a long-anticipated revival currently at Berkeley Rep, under the direction of longtime Tony Kushner champion Tony Taccone, does not disappoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin T. Ismail as Louis and Randy Harrison as Prior in ‘Angels in America’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, Kushner’s script is eerily prescient in form as well as content, as scene after scene unfurls in rapid succession, almost as a mini-series, which makes the seven-hour marathon (most Saturdays and assorted other dates, through July 22) feel like that most modern of indulgences, the binge-watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of dialogue, outside of the fact that Ronald Reagan is frequently name-checked, many of the conversations feel like the ones you’ll overhear today in urban coffee shops across the United States, from real talk about race relations and white privilege to support for Palestinians to a gay man’s questioning whether or not their “girl talk” is an act of misogyny. It speaks strongly to Kushner’s ability to read between the lines of American vernacular history in order to have created this instantly recognizable and resonant world that stands the test of time, angels and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Binstock as Joe and Bethany Jillard as Harper in ‘Angels in America’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>True, it takes the Angel (double-cast with Francesca Faridany and Lisa Ramirez) up until the final moments of \u003cem>Millenium Approaches\u003c/em> to crash through the ceiling of AIDS-stricken Prior Walter (Randy Harrison), a former drag performer and the descendant of a line of prior Prior Walters stretching back to the Bayeux Tapestry. But by that point, references to the divine have already abounded: high-strung housewife Harper (Bethany Jillard) observes that the ozone layer is like a “spherical net” of “guardian angels”; Prior’s lover Louis (Benjamin T. Ismail) asserts that justice is like God, “a confusing vastness”; and closeted Mormon Joe (Danny Binstock) reveals that he frequently fantasizes about wrestling an angel, “a beautiful man,” \u003cem>a la\u003c/em> Jacob in a gay wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caldwell Tidicue as Belize and Stephen Spinella as Roy Cohn in ‘Angels in America’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than a flighty metaphor, the Angel (portrayed with sonorous gravity by Francesca Faridany when I saw it) arrives as a representative from a politburo of heavenly hosts, charging Prior with the task of encouraging humanity to put the brakes on, so to speak, and slow their forward motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do not advance, you only trample,” she chides, and even Prior has to admit she has a point. But not for nothing has humanity been imbued by the capacity to choose, to move, and to create, and though he must pay a visit to the “Permanent Emergency Council” in heaven to demand they release him from his role as reluctant prophet, he refuses to stand still and accept a destiny thrust upon him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Permanent Emergency Council” of heaven offers their blessing. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because you can’t divorce the ugly specter of regressive political machinations from the turbulent history of AIDS in America, one of the play’s major characters is Roy Cohn — who, among other dire actions, helped engineer the so-called “Lavender Scare” of the early 1950s, when the State Department and other branches of the federal government were purged of accused homosexuals. Played by Stephen Spinella, who played the role of Prior Walter in \u003cem>Angels’\u003c/em> original Broadway run, Cohn is a gleefully unrepentant bully, incapable of taking his own AIDS diagnosis lying down, even when literally bedridden by it. Strangely, it’s Cohn’s flagrantly immoral compass that sits at the heart of \u003cem>Angels\u003c/em>, a certain kind of old guard being left behind by a progress it can’t begin to comprehend, nor has any interest in trying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Roman as Ethel Rosenberg pays Stephen Spinella as Roy Cohn a visit. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the solid cast, certain moments stand out more than individual performances, which is as it should be in extravagant ensemble work such as this. The self-medicated Harper wandering through the Antarctica of her mind; the tenderness with which Louis teaches Joe about the sensual possibilities of scent; Caldwell Tidicue (a.k.a. Bob the Drag Queen) as night nurse and “ex-\u003cem>ex\u003c/em>” drag queen Belize, clapping back at both a guilt-riddled but still racist Louis and a disease-riddled but still abusive Cohn; Prior’s occasionally manic determination to unravel the metaphysical implications of the hand he’s been dealt; Carmen Roman as a somewhat dour Ethel Rosenberg, reciting the Kaddish over the man who made sure she’d sat in the electric chair for treason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scenic design and special effects (by Takeshi Kata and Jeremy Chernick, respectively) meld perfectly with the lighting (Jennifer Schreiver) and projections (Alexander V. Nichols), creating entire city blocks with a few well-placed beams of light, a projected backdrop, and a spare piece or two of furniture. Jake Rodriguez’ sound design keeps the energy in the room aloft, a crucial function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FrancescaFaridany_CarmenRoman-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FrancescaFaridany_CarmenRoman-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FrancescaFaridany_CarmenRoman-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FrancescaFaridany_CarmenRoman-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FrancescaFaridany_CarmenRoman-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FrancescaFaridany_CarmenRoman-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FrancescaFaridany_CarmenRoman-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FrancescaFaridany_CarmenRoman-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/FrancescaFaridany_CarmenRoman.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francesca Faridany as the Angel and Carmen Roman as Hannah Pitt in ‘Angels in America.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although \u003cem>Angels\u003c/em> is too complex and too expansive a play from which to distill a single message, what audiences can expect is an impressive treatise on the implications and consequences of “freedom,” and an exploration of that most daunting expression of it: the human capacity for love. As much of an improbability as the America that inspired it, \u003cem>Angels in America\u003c/em> is a play that succeeds on its own excess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were wondering where your next binge-watch might come from, wonder no more.\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>‘Angels in America’ runs through July 22 at Berkeley Rep. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1718/12033.asp\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Inspired partly by the success of Larry Kramer’s \u003cem>The Normal Heart\u003c/em>, a play steeped in the politics and the personal of the ongoing AIDS crisis, and partly by a dream playwright Tony Kushner once had of a dancer he knew, lying on his sickbed while an angel crashed through his ceiling, \u003cem>Angels in America \u003c/em>has \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-world-only-spins-forward-9781635571769/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a backstory\u003c/a> as sprawling and epic as the play itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually two plays in repertory — \u003cem>Millenium Approaches\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Perestroika\u003c/em>, each running around three and a half hours — \u003cem>Angels in America\u003c/em> tackles, among other themes, AIDS, progress vs. providence, the fickle twists of love, loyalty, and abandonment, and the spark of the divine that might be found in even the most venal of hosts. For theatergoers, it is high on most bucket lists of “must sees,” and a long-anticipated revival currently at Berkeley Rep, under the direction of longtime Tony Kushner champion Tony Taccone, does not disappoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/BenjaminTIsmail_RandyHarrison.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin T. Ismail as Louis and Randy Harrison as Prior in ‘Angels in America’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, Kushner’s script is eerily prescient in form as well as content, as scene after scene unfurls in rapid succession, almost as a mini-series, which makes the seven-hour marathon (most Saturdays and assorted other dates, through July 22) feel like that most modern of indulgences, the binge-watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of dialogue, outside of the fact that Ronald Reagan is frequently name-checked, many of the conversations feel like the ones you’ll overhear today in urban coffee shops across the United States, from real talk about race relations and white privilege to support for Palestinians to a gay man’s questioning whether or not their “girl talk” is an act of misogyny. It speaks strongly to Kushner’s ability to read between the lines of American vernacular history in order to have created this instantly recognizable and resonant world that stands the test of time, angels and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/DannyBinstock_BethanyJillard.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Binstock as Joe and Bethany Jillard as Harper in ‘Angels in America’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>True, it takes the Angel (double-cast with Francesca Faridany and Lisa Ramirez) up until the final moments of \u003cem>Millenium Approaches\u003c/em> to crash through the ceiling of AIDS-stricken Prior Walter (Randy Harrison), a former drag performer and the descendant of a line of prior Prior Walters stretching back to the Bayeux Tapestry. But by that point, references to the divine have already abounded: high-strung housewife Harper (Bethany Jillard) observes that the ozone layer is like a “spherical net” of “guardian angels”; Prior’s lover Louis (Benjamin T. Ismail) asserts that justice is like God, “a confusing vastness”; and closeted Mormon Joe (Danny Binstock) reveals that he frequently fantasizes about wrestling an angel, “a beautiful man,” \u003cem>a la\u003c/em> Jacob in a gay wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CaldwellTidcue_StephenSpinella.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caldwell Tidicue as Belize and Stephen Spinella as Roy Cohn in ‘Angels in America’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than a flighty metaphor, the Angel (portrayed with sonorous gravity by Francesca Faridany when I saw it) arrives as a representative from a politburo of heavenly hosts, charging Prior with the task of encouraging humanity to put the brakes on, so to speak, and slow their forward motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do not advance, you only trample,” she chides, and even Prior has to admit she has a point. But not for nothing has humanity been imbued by the capacity to choose, to move, and to create, and though he must pay a visit to the “Permanent Emergency Council” in heaven to demand they release him from his role as reluctant prophet, he refuses to stand still and accept a destiny thrust upon him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/HeavenlyBureaucrats.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Permanent Emergency Council” of heaven offers their blessing. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because you can’t divorce the ugly specter of regressive political machinations from the turbulent history of AIDS in America, one of the play’s major characters is Roy Cohn — who, among other dire actions, helped engineer the so-called “Lavender Scare” of the early 1950s, when the State Department and other branches of the federal government were purged of accused homosexuals. Played by Stephen Spinella, who played the role of Prior Walter in \u003cem>Angels’\u003c/em> original Broadway run, Cohn is a gleefully unrepentant bully, incapable of taking his own AIDS diagnosis lying down, even when literally bedridden by it. Strangely, it’s Cohn’s flagrantly immoral compass that sits at the heart of \u003cem>Angels\u003c/em>, a certain kind of old guard being left behind by a progress it can’t begin to comprehend, nor has any interest in trying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CarmenRoman_StephenSpinella.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Roman as Ethel Rosenberg pays Stephen Spinella as Roy Cohn a visit. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/Berkeley Rep)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the solid cast, certain moments stand out more than individual performances, which is as it should be in extravagant ensemble work such as this. The self-medicated Harper wandering through the Antarctica of her mind; the tenderness with which Louis teaches Joe about the sensual possibilities of scent; Caldwell Tidicue (a.k.a. Bob the Drag Queen) as night nurse and “ex-\u003cem>ex\u003c/em>” drag queen Belize, clapping back at both a guilt-riddled but still racist Louis and a disease-riddled but still abusive Cohn; Prior’s occasionally manic determination to unravel the metaphysical implications of the hand he’s been dealt; Carmen Roman as a somewhat dour Ethel Rosenberg, reciting the Kaddish over the man who made sure she’d sat in the electric chair for treason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scenic design and special effects (by Takeshi Kata and Jeremy Chernick, respectively) meld perfectly with the lighting (Jennifer Schreiver) and projections (Alexander V. Nichols), creating entire city blocks with a few well-placed beams of light, a projected backdrop, and a spare piece or two of furniture. 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