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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-guide-2026\">2026 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a year of particular rockiness, Bay Area theatre continues to experience ups and downs. While some companies have closed, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWAoR6UFB3r/?img_index=1\">3Below in San Jose\u003c/a>, others are reinventing old spaces into new beginnings, like San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.rayoflighttheatre.com/thebarb\">Ray of Light\u003c/a> and their fresh, intimate performance space, the Barbary Stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer’s theater in our region offers new ideas, but also some nostalgia. Lisa Vroman played Christine Daaé in \u003ci>The Phantom of the Opera\u003c/i> when it ran in San Francisco for more than five years in the 1990s; when the revitalized production returns to the city May 29–June 21, Vroman will take on the role of choreographer Madame Giry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if an angry vocal instructor with bad skin who lives in the damp catacombs of an opera house isn’t your vibe, never fear — here are 11 other fantastic plays and musicals running all over the Bay Area this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean-Michel (Landyn Endo) and Anne (Akhila Narayanan) navigate their very opposite parents on their journey toward impending nuptials in ‘La Cage aux Folles’ at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Scott Sidorsky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.therhino.org/\">La Cage aux Folles\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 16–June 7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean-Michel’s dad Georges is the master of ceremonies at a Saint-Tropez drag nightclub. Anne’s dad is head of the Tradition, Family and Morality Party that’s trying to close drag clubs. How will these two get along now that their kids are in love? A bevy of lies ensue to try and assuage Anne’s family, yet by the end, everyone needs each other and drag artists win the day. The intimate performance space in the historic Castro District is a perfect spot for this joyous musical, written by dynamic duo Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein. Longtime executive artistic director John Fisher and development director/company manager Crystal Liu share directing duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1601px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989543\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1601\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed.png 1601w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed-768x614.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed-1536x1229.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1601px) 100vw, 1601px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manu Narayan, background and Kuhoo Verma star in the world premiere musical adaptation of the 2013 film ‘The Lunchbox’ at Berkeley Rep, directed by Rachel Chavkin. \u003ccite>(HanJie Chow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-lunchbox-nkft\">The Lunchbox\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 17–June 28, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area audiences can certainly get used to seeing the uber-talented Kuhoo Verma, who’s spent time at both Berkeley Rep and ACT San Francisco in recent years. She completed an Off-Broadway run in \u003ci>Heathers\u003c/i> this past April; she now stars in this newly adapted musical. Based on Ritesh Batra’s popular 2013 film, \u003ci>The Lunchbox\u003c/i> is set in Mumbai, where a young wife and an older widower close to retirement begin a correspondence through a wrong lunch delivery. Notes hold deeper truths, and a romance begins to blossom. Batra serves as co-lyricist with sibling music group The Lazours (\u003ci>We Live in Cairo\u003c/i>), while \u003ci>Hadestown\u003c/i> director Rachel Chavkin handles the directing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989497\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1-1536x809.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Ramirez rehearses as the title character of ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ at Oakland Theater Project. The company is producing a new adaptation by Chay Yew. \u003ccite>(Adam Elder Montanaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/\">The House of Bernarda Alba\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oakland Theater Project, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 22–June 7, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca remains one of the most thrilling artists of the 20th century. A sly critic of the brutal General Francisco Franco, Lorca was ultimately killed by firing squad in 1936 at age 38. In a new adaptation of Lorca’s \u003ci>The House of Bernarda Alba\u003c/i> by Chay Yew, Matriarch Bernarda demands that her five daughters mourn the loss of their father for eight years. Yet as time goes on, the sisters begin to self-destruct, mostly driven by a single love interest among multiple sisters, a man the audience never sees. Lisa Ramirez, a terrific actor and co-artistic director of the company, takes on the title role, directed by Michael Socrates Moran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910-1200x675.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bess Wohl’s ‘Continuity’ at Shotgun Players takes place on a Hollywood set. \u003ccite>(Shotgun Players)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/show/continuity/\">Continuity\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 23–June 21, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emilie Whelan directs this fast-paced comedy about life on a Hollywood set. As art imitates life, Maria is on edge as she keeps the production together amidst wild chaos. Egos, secrets and too much truth for comfort inform the story, a classic example of art imitating life. Shotgun Players are coming off a terrific production of another Pulitzer winning playwright, Edward Albee, and his risk-taking play \u003ci>The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?\u003c/i>, continuing a daring streak of staging stories with penetrating questions and complicated answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1475\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons-768x566.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billie J. Simmons, left, and Kelly Rinehart take on powerful emotional demands in ‘’night, Mother’ at the Altarena Playhouse in Alameda. \u003ccite>(Altarena Playhouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.altarena.org/2026-season-announcement/night-mother/\">’night, Mother\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Altarena Playhouse, Alameda\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 29–June 28, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Marsha Norman’s story focuses on mother Thelma (Billie J. Simmons) and her daughter Jessie (Kelly Rinehart), who declares she is about to take her own life. Thelma’s battle for Jessie to reconsider becomes a bond, based on old secrets and long-standing harm. The small Altarena Playhouse in Alameda, featuring a three-quarter stage and just north of 100 seats, is an ideal venue for these types of personal stories. Actor, director and podcaster ShawnJ West directs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989553\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/099.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/099.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/099-160x114.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/099-768x548.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erin Rose Solorio and Sean Okuniewicz play the roles of Scaramouche and Galileo in the San Jose Stage production of ‘We Will Rock You,’ featuring the hits of rock band Queen. \u003ccite>(Dave Lepori)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.thestage.org/\">We Will Rock You\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Jose Stage\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 3–28, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s never a bad time to dive into the hits of legendary rock band Queen, which boasted one of rock music’s greatest frontmen, Freddie Mercury. In this jukebox musical, two misfits, Galileo and Scaramouche, join a group of bohemians tasked with finding the buried sacred instruments that will allow them to save rock and roll. Featuring some of Queen’s biggest hits, such as “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are the Champions,” and “Somebody to Love,” the show is an opportunity to rock out to live Queen covers and dance in the aisles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989492\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playwright Denmo Ibrahim’s ‘Arab Spring’ premiere is a collaboration between Golden Thread Productions and SFBATCO. \u003ccite>(Clara Rice Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://goldenthread.org/productions/arab-spring/\">Arab Spring\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Potrero Stage, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 19–July 12, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Thread Productions and SFBATCO, two of the Bay Area’s most consequential creators of new work, join forces for this promising co-production. In \u003ci>Arab Spring\u003c/i>, two siblings (played by Salim Razawi and Arti Ishak) return to the suburbs to bury their deadbeat dad, and themes of family and religion come to the forefront. Written by Golden Thread resident playwright Denmo Ibrahim and directed by Crowded Fire co-executive director Nailah Unole didanas’ea Harper-Malveaux, the play promises to be explosive and timely. It’s also the first full production under new artistic director Nabra Nelson, who took over from Sahar Assaf in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1009px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989538\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Evren-Odcikin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1009\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Evren-Odcikin.jpg 1009w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Evren-Odcikin-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Evren-Odcikin-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1009px) 100vw, 1009px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evren Odcikin presents his adaptation of ‘As You Like It’ at Marin Shakespeare Company in June and July. \u003ccite>(Makeen Osman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinshakespeare.org/as-you-like-it/\">As You Like It\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Marin Shakespeare Co.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 19–July 19, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s summer in the Bay Area and one does not go see Shakespeare outdoors, is it really summertime? Transitioning from T-shirt to jacket to blanket throughout a summer night is a rite of passage in these parts, and very few places are better suited for it than Marin. This year, exceptional theater maker Evren Odcikin is premiering his adaptation of \u003ci>As You Like It\u003c/i>, with one of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters, the brilliant light Rosalind. Banished from the court, Rosalind disguises herself as the boy Ganymede and darts to the forest of Arden, where she encounters her love interest Orlando. It’s a classic pastoral comedy of music and romance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Geetha-Reddy-Headshot-2026-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Geetha-Reddy-Headshot-2026-small.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Geetha-Reddy-Headshot-2026-small-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area-based playwright and screenwriter Geetha Reddy’s world premiere of ‘The Employee Dharma Handbook’ opens at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in July. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Geetha Reddy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/mainstage/the-employee-dharma-handbook/\">The Employee Dharma Handbook\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Mountain View\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>July 8–Aug. 2, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this prominent world premiere, Bay Area playwright Geetha Reddy explores dharma as a concept of morals and responsibilities in the workplace, as HR executive Val wrestles with suspicions of sexism among a group of lead engineers preparing a rocket launch. Reddy’s exploration of identity, culture and nepotism is directed by Snehal Desai, a former artistic director at Los Angeles’ East West Players currently serving as Artistic Director at the Center Theatre Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ella Ruth Francis, Jonathan Chisolm, Jordan Covington, Alison Ewing, Mackenzie Macdonald, Trevor March, Jeannine Anderson, Jeffrey Brian Adams, Samantha Rich and Ken Brill are featured in ‘Hairspray’ at San Francisco Playhouse. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Playhouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://sfplayhouse.org/2025-2026-season/hairspray/\">Hairspray\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>SF Playhouse\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>July 10–Sept. 12, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes you just want to go to the theater and dance in your seat. While \u003ci>Hairspray\u003c/i> is loaded with great hits in the spirit of 1960s R&B groups, it also doubles as a slick commentary on racism and societal acceptance. The story is told through the lens of plus-sized Tracy Turnblad and her mission to bring marginalized people into the spotlight through a television dance show. As good as the 2007 film was, starring John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Zac Efron and a fresh-faced Nikki Blonsky, hearing the numbers live is a whole ‘nother vibe. Artistic director Bill English handles directing duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 940px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989540\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/PS-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/PS-2025.jpg 940w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/PS-2025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/PS-2025-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Sherwood and Vanessa Alvarez in ‘A Mysterious Demise’ by Paul Braverman, part of last year’s 2025 Pear Slices Festival. \u003ccite>(The Pear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.thepear.org/season24\">Pear Slices\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Pear Theatre\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>July 19–Aug. 3, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New works are the heartbeat of the American theater, and terrific incubators abound in the Bay Area, including the popular \u003ci>Pear Slices\u003c/i> festival at the Pear Theatre. Over the course of the festival’s 24 years, more than 100 new works have been brought to audiences, with the 2025 production offering eight brand new stories. At this year’s 24th annual iteration of the series, the plays are nicely varied, with a mix of comic and poignant works. Tonya Mara and Joey Dippel tag-team the direction.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-guide-2026\">2026 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a year of particular rockiness, Bay Area theatre continues to experience ups and downs. While some companies have closed, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWAoR6UFB3r/?img_index=1\">3Below in San Jose\u003c/a>, others are reinventing old spaces into new beginnings, like San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.rayoflighttheatre.com/thebarb\">Ray of Light\u003c/a> and their fresh, intimate performance space, the Barbary Stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer’s theater in our region offers new ideas, but also some nostalgia. Lisa Vroman played Christine Daaé in \u003ci>The Phantom of the Opera\u003c/i> when it ran in San Francisco for more than five years in the 1990s; when the revitalized production returns to the city May 29–June 21, Vroman will take on the role of choreographer Madame Giry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if an angry vocal instructor with bad skin who lives in the damp catacombs of an opera house isn’t your vibe, never fear — here are 11 other fantastic plays and musicals running all over the Bay Area this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/3-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean-Michel (Landyn Endo) and Anne (Akhila Narayanan) navigate their very opposite parents on their journey toward impending nuptials in ‘La Cage aux Folles’ at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Scott Sidorsky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.therhino.org/\">La Cage aux Folles\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 16–June 7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean-Michel’s dad Georges is the master of ceremonies at a Saint-Tropez drag nightclub. Anne’s dad is head of the Tradition, Family and Morality Party that’s trying to close drag clubs. How will these two get along now that their kids are in love? A bevy of lies ensue to try and assuage Anne’s family, yet by the end, everyone needs each other and drag artists win the day. The intimate performance space in the historic Castro District is a perfect spot for this joyous musical, written by dynamic duo Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein. Longtime executive artistic director John Fisher and development director/company manager Crystal Liu share directing duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1601px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989543\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1601\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed.png 1601w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed-768x614.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/unnamed-1536x1229.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1601px) 100vw, 1601px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manu Narayan, background and Kuhoo Verma star in the world premiere musical adaptation of the 2013 film ‘The Lunchbox’ at Berkeley Rep, directed by Rachel Chavkin. \u003ccite>(HanJie Chow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-lunchbox-nkft\">The Lunchbox\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 17–June 28, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area audiences can certainly get used to seeing the uber-talented Kuhoo Verma, who’s spent time at both Berkeley Rep and ACT San Francisco in recent years. She completed an Off-Broadway run in \u003ci>Heathers\u003c/i> this past April; she now stars in this newly adapted musical. Based on Ritesh Batra’s popular 2013 film, \u003ci>The Lunchbox\u003c/i> is set in Mumbai, where a young wife and an older widower close to retirement begin a correspondence through a wrong lunch delivery. Notes hold deeper truths, and a romance begins to blossom. Batra serves as co-lyricist with sibling music group The Lazours (\u003ci>We Live in Cairo\u003c/i>), while \u003ci>Hadestown\u003c/i> director Rachel Chavkin handles the directing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989497\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/HOBA_53-1-1536x809.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Ramirez rehearses as the title character of ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ at Oakland Theater Project. The company is producing a new adaptation by Chay Yew. \u003ccite>(Adam Elder Montanaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/\">The House of Bernarda Alba\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oakland Theater Project, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 22–June 7, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca remains one of the most thrilling artists of the 20th century. A sly critic of the brutal General Francisco Franco, Lorca was ultimately killed by firing squad in 1936 at age 38. In a new adaptation of Lorca’s \u003ci>The House of Bernarda Alba\u003c/i> by Chay Yew, Matriarch Bernarda demands that her five daughters mourn the loss of their father for eight years. Yet as time goes on, the sisters begin to self-destruct, mostly driven by a single love interest among multiple sisters, a man the audience never sees. Lisa Ramirez, a terrific actor and co-artistic director of the company, takes on the title role, directed by Michael Socrates Moran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/IMG_0910-1200x675.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bess Wohl’s ‘Continuity’ at Shotgun Players takes place on a Hollywood set. \u003ccite>(Shotgun Players)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/show/continuity/\">Continuity\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 23–June 21, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emilie Whelan directs this fast-paced comedy about life on a Hollywood set. As art imitates life, Maria is on edge as she keeps the production together amidst wild chaos. Egos, secrets and too much truth for comfort inform the story, a classic example of art imitating life. Shotgun Players are coming off a terrific production of another Pulitzer winning playwright, Edward Albee, and his risk-taking play \u003ci>The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?\u003c/i>, continuing a daring streak of staging stories with penetrating questions and complicated answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1475\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons-768x566.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Billie-J.-Simmons-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billie J. Simmons, left, and Kelly Rinehart take on powerful emotional demands in ‘’night, Mother’ at the Altarena Playhouse in Alameda. \u003ccite>(Altarena Playhouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.altarena.org/2026-season-announcement/night-mother/\">’night, Mother\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Altarena Playhouse, Alameda\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May 29–June 28, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Marsha Norman’s story focuses on mother Thelma (Billie J. Simmons) and her daughter Jessie (Kelly Rinehart), who declares she is about to take her own life. Thelma’s battle for Jessie to reconsider becomes a bond, based on old secrets and long-standing harm. The small Altarena Playhouse in Alameda, featuring a three-quarter stage and just north of 100 seats, is an ideal venue for these types of personal stories. Actor, director and podcaster ShawnJ West directs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989553\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/099.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/099.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/099-160x114.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/099-768x548.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erin Rose Solorio and Sean Okuniewicz play the roles of Scaramouche and Galileo in the San Jose Stage production of ‘We Will Rock You,’ featuring the hits of rock band Queen. \u003ccite>(Dave Lepori)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.thestage.org/\">We Will Rock You\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Jose Stage\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 3–28, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s never a bad time to dive into the hits of legendary rock band Queen, which boasted one of rock music’s greatest frontmen, Freddie Mercury. In this jukebox musical, two misfits, Galileo and Scaramouche, join a group of bohemians tasked with finding the buried sacred instruments that will allow them to save rock and roll. Featuring some of Queen’s biggest hits, such as “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are the Champions,” and “Somebody to Love,” the show is an opportunity to rock out to live Queen covers and dance in the aisles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989492\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/DenmoIbrahim-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playwright Denmo Ibrahim’s ‘Arab Spring’ premiere is a collaboration between Golden Thread Productions and SFBATCO. \u003ccite>(Clara Rice Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://goldenthread.org/productions/arab-spring/\">Arab Spring\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Potrero Stage, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 19–July 12, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Thread Productions and SFBATCO, two of the Bay Area’s most consequential creators of new work, join forces for this promising co-production. In \u003ci>Arab Spring\u003c/i>, two siblings (played by Salim Razawi and Arti Ishak) return to the suburbs to bury their deadbeat dad, and themes of family and religion come to the forefront. Written by Golden Thread resident playwright Denmo Ibrahim and directed by Crowded Fire co-executive director Nailah Unole didanas’ea Harper-Malveaux, the play promises to be explosive and timely. It’s also the first full production under new artistic director Nabra Nelson, who took over from Sahar Assaf in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1009px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989538\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Evren-Odcikin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1009\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Evren-Odcikin.jpg 1009w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Evren-Odcikin-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Evren-Odcikin-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1009px) 100vw, 1009px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evren Odcikin presents his adaptation of ‘As You Like It’ at Marin Shakespeare Company in June and July. \u003ccite>(Makeen Osman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinshakespeare.org/as-you-like-it/\">As You Like It\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Marin Shakespeare Co.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 19–July 19, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s summer in the Bay Area and one does not go see Shakespeare outdoors, is it really summertime? Transitioning from T-shirt to jacket to blanket throughout a summer night is a rite of passage in these parts, and very few places are better suited for it than Marin. This year, exceptional theater maker Evren Odcikin is premiering his adaptation of \u003ci>As You Like It\u003c/i>, with one of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters, the brilliant light Rosalind. Banished from the court, Rosalind disguises herself as the boy Ganymede and darts to the forest of Arden, where she encounters her love interest Orlando. It’s a classic pastoral comedy of music and romance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Geetha-Reddy-Headshot-2026-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Geetha-Reddy-Headshot-2026-small.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Geetha-Reddy-Headshot-2026-small-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area-based playwright and screenwriter Geetha Reddy’s world premiere of ‘The Employee Dharma Handbook’ opens at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in July. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Geetha Reddy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/mainstage/the-employee-dharma-handbook/\">The Employee Dharma Handbook\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Mountain View\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>July 8–Aug. 2, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this prominent world premiere, Bay Area playwright Geetha Reddy explores dharma as a concept of morals and responsibilities in the workplace, as HR executive Val wrestles with suspicions of sexism among a group of lead engineers preparing a rocket launch. Reddy’s exploration of identity, culture and nepotism is directed by Snehal Desai, a former artistic director at Los Angeles’ East West Players currently serving as Artistic Director at the Center Theatre Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/SFP_hairspray-headshots-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ella Ruth Francis, Jonathan Chisolm, Jordan Covington, Alison Ewing, Mackenzie Macdonald, Trevor March, Jeannine Anderson, Jeffrey Brian Adams, Samantha Rich and Ken Brill are featured in ‘Hairspray’ at San Francisco Playhouse. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Playhouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://sfplayhouse.org/2025-2026-season/hairspray/\">Hairspray\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>SF Playhouse\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>July 10–Sept. 12, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes you just want to go to the theater and dance in your seat. While \u003ci>Hairspray\u003c/i> is loaded with great hits in the spirit of 1960s R&B groups, it also doubles as a slick commentary on racism and societal acceptance. The story is told through the lens of plus-sized Tracy Turnblad and her mission to bring marginalized people into the spotlight through a television dance show. As good as the 2007 film was, starring John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Zac Efron and a fresh-faced Nikki Blonsky, hearing the numbers live is a whole ‘nother vibe. Artistic director Bill English handles directing duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13989540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 940px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989540\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/PS-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/PS-2025.jpg 940w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/PS-2025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/PS-2025-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Sherwood and Vanessa Alvarez in ‘A Mysterious Demise’ by Paul Braverman, part of last year’s 2025 Pear Slices Festival. \u003ccite>(The Pear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.thepear.org/season24\">Pear Slices\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Pear Theatre\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>July 19–Aug. 3, 2026\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/summerguide2023\">2023 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theater companies typically grind hard from September to June, and as a result, the summer months ease up a bit before the cycle starts again in the fall. This doesn’t mean the Bay Area theater scene is a barren wasteland over the summer; quite the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area stages this summer host a healthy mix of the classic and contemporary, along with world premieres and hearty musicals. Here are 10 shows from late May to early September that you don’t want to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-800x818.jpg\" alt=\"a photo of three people posed in front of a wooden door, two youngish Latino-appearing men with a Latina woman in an orange standing between them, looking at the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-800x818.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1020x1043.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-160x164.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-768x785.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1502x1536.jpg 1502w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1920x1963.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Cabrera and Regina Morones and Samuel Prince in ‘Yerma.’ \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp\">Yerma\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nMay 27–June 18, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whose passion explodes from the ink, has a special quality that knows no end. Lorca’s characters are not simply products of circumstance; they are wholly consumed by fate. His ideas and word combinations are incredibly thrilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Yerma\u003c/em>, a play not as frequently produced as the two others in his Rural Trilogy, the title character is childless, desperately yearning to be a mother. Her desperation leads to her self-destruction, which parallels the tragedy of Lorca himself, killed in 1936 at the hands of a firing squad at age 38. \u003cem>Yerma\u003c/em> is the type of play that Shotgun Players does beautifully, with the immeasurable benefit of one of Spain’s greatest voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"three people, a white woman, a Black man and a Japanese-American man in colorful outfits, perform on a stage with a fake animal skeleton of some kind\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aymee Garcia, Cole Thompson and Kennedy Kanagawa in ‘Into the Woods’ \u003ccite>(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/\">Into the Woods\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Curran, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 20–25, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is a regular stop for national tours, but \u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em> offers an added bonus: multiple original cast members from the critically acclaimed Broadway production. The show opened in May of 2022 as a two-week run at the New York City Center before a Broadway transfer led to multiple extensions and six Tony Award nominations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The masterpiece from James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim joins together multiple plots of various fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm — often with much darker consequences than their Disney counterparts. Making its way out West as well is the melancholy cow puppet Milky White, an aspect of the show that was all the rage in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"a young Black woman with curly hair poses for a portrait in a red dress\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Bay Area performer Elizabeth Carter makes her TheatreWorks directorial debut with ‘Steel Magnolias.’ \u003ccite>(Jenny Graham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/\">Steel Magnolias\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts\u003cbr>\nJune 7–July 2, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has been crafting great, innovative artistry for its recent productions, rethinking what a classic can be and infusing the work with components that expand a show’s inclusivity. (Exhibit A: their \u003cem>Little Shop of Horrors\u003c/em>, placed in San Francisco’s Chinatown, this past December.) This year, a play set in the South, which featured an all-white cast in the popular 1989 film, adapts the action into a Black-owned salon. Longtime Bay Area performer Elizabeth Carter directs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"a large group of people in top hats and shiny outfits perform a dance in a chorus line on stage\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘A Chorus Line’ at the London Palladium. San Francisco Playhouse closes its 20th anniversary season with the musical starting June 22. \u003ccite>(Alamy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2022-2023-season/a-chorus-line/\">A Chorus Line\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco Playhouse\u003cbr>\nJune 22–Sept. 9, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Playhouse is going all in with its collection of musicals, offering up three in a 12-month span. One of the most decorated musicals in history, winning nine Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1976, \u003cem>A Chorus Line\u003c/em> follows a colorful group of dancers vying for a coveted spot on a Broadway chorus line. Each dancer brings deep, personal stories with lots of humor and heartbreak. Despite their variety of backgrounds, each of the dancers ultimately asks the same question — if the dream were to end instantly after so much sacrifice, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwk0Sh3id4w\">are there any regrets\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-800x450.png\" alt=\"a group of four people, three Black women and one Black man, Questlove, smile for the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-768x432.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0.png 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team behind ‘Hippest Trip’: Dominique Morrisseau (book), Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson (executive producer), Camille A. Brown (choreography), Kamilah Forbes (director). \u003ccite>(Nicola Goode)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2023-24-season/soul-train/\">Hippest Trip — The Soul Train Musical\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Toni Rembe Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 25–Oct. 1, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chicago disc jockey Joe Cobb pierced the television speaker with his dulcet falsetto screaming, “The soooooouuulllll train,” followed by Sid McCoy smoothly introducing “the hippest trip in America” while a colorful train \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8osiVlz6Ws\">bounced along outer space\u003c/a>, you knew that Saturday morning was ready to commence with unbridled Black joy. Every ounce of \u003cem>Soul Train\u003c/em> is iconic — dapper host Don Cornelius, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lODBVM802H8\">Soul Train line\u003c/a>, prime fashion, and the show’s indelible role in popular culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new musical, which finally premieres at A.C.T. after plenty of delays, is led by a dream team, including playwright Dominique Morrisseau and musician/Soul Train savant Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. A long-anticipated world premiere, it’s poised to become the theatre event of the summer with high ambitions beyond the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a glass of water on a table in front of a woman's face, lit darkly; she has brown skin and black hair and is wearing dark lipstick\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Ramirez in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ \u003ccite>(Ben Krantz Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/virginia\">Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Flax Art & Design, Oakland\u003cbr>\nMay 26–June 18, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long considered a masterpiece of the American theater, this unflinchingly comedic and profound work from Edward Albee follows middle-aged couple George and Martha, who invite a young professor and his wife over to their place for a nightcap; a dangerous round of fun and games ensues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Theater Project is on a roll of late, producing gritty narratives from fresh playwrights while continuing to build upon a healthy repertory company of terrific artists. Popular company members Lisa Ramirez and Michael Socrates Moran perform and direct, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of a man with light brown skin and a very short beard wearing a black t-shirt\" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-1020x1531.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ari’el Stachel in ‘Out of Character’ \u003ccite>(Sergio Pasquariello)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/out-of-character/\">Out of Character\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003cbr>\nJune 23–July 20, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the beautiful musical \u003cem>The Band’s Visit\u003c/em> in 2017 was to witness an incredible set of performances from an all-star cast. One of those performers, the handsome Berkeley-raised talent Ari’el Stachel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUW-yM2y53s\">made audiences swoon\u003c/a> as the confident musician Haled. That swooning was no accident; his performance landed him the 2018 Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stachel returns home for this solo debut, telling his story of the difficulties he faced as an Israeli American of Yemeni Jewish descent shortly after the 9/11 attacks. In keeping with the homegrown nature of the piece, the show was developed at the Rep’s Ground Floor and is directed by former artistic director Tony Taccone, who led the Rep for 33 years before retiring in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"three people, a Black man in a suit, a Black woman in a white top and black pants and a Black woman in a peach dress, laugh while performing a reading in front of an applauding crowd\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-768x481.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Rotimi Agbabiaka, playwright Traci Tolmaire and actor Ryan Nicole Austin perform a staged reading of ‘In the Evening by the Moonlight’ at the Museum of African Diaspora. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lorraine Hansberry Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.lhtsf.org/\">In the Evening by the Moonlight\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Young Performer’s Theatre at Fort Mason, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 15–July 2, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is the home for this new play that imagines a conversation between three major figures: the theatre’s namesake, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone and James Baldwin. The piece is set in Hansberry’s Waverly Place flat in New York, as the three icons confront a fearful future while expressing hopes for a revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play, which received a successful reading in April, is written by Traci Tolmaire, and co-created and directed by artistic director Margo Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-800x600.png\" alt=\"three white people, two men and one woman, smile for the camera while sitting in an empty theater\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-1020x765.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-768x576.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team behind ‘Hamlet’ from the Marin Shakespeare Company, left to right: Jon Tracy (director), Bridgette Loriaux (‘Gertrude’) and Nick Musleh (‘Hamlet’). \u003ccite>(Jon Tracy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinshakespeare.org/\">Hamlet\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, San Rafael\u003cbr>\nJune 16–July 16, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing screams summer like Shakespeare in an outdoor setting, and the Marin Shakespeare Company has presented the Bard outside since 1989. Well-known Bay Area director Jon Tracy is taking over the reins as summer season artistic producer, and while he has directed for the company plenty, this is his debut in the new role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Hamlet has everything one can ask for in a drama — iconic characters, lust, betrayal, greed, humor and deception. To be or not to be in the house? Grabbing some Shakespeare on a beautiful North Bay night under the stars is a definite “to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-800x1105.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1105\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-800x1105.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1020x1408.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-160x221.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-768x1060.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1112x1536.jpeg 1112w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1483x2048.jpeg 1483w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1.jpeg 1854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Near, director of ‘The Road to Mecca.’ \u003ccite>(David Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.zspace.org/\">The Road to Mecca\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Z Below, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 4–30, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This work from Athol Fugard, long considered the greatest of South African playwrights, centers an aging Miss Helen, who fills her home and garden with sculptures made from junk after the death of her husband. As her mental health continues to deteriorate, two people — a local pastor and a young teacher — fight to determine the ultimate path of her perilous future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece brings together a group of artists who last worked together on another Fugard piece at Z Below, \u003cem>A Lesson from Aloes\u003c/em>, in 2018. Timothy Near leads the three-hander, reuniting the longtime director with top acting talents Victor Talmadge and Wendy vanden Heuvel.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/summerguide2023\">2023 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theater companies typically grind hard from September to June, and as a result, the summer months ease up a bit before the cycle starts again in the fall. This doesn’t mean the Bay Area theater scene is a barren wasteland over the summer; quite the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area stages this summer host a healthy mix of the classic and contemporary, along with world premieres and hearty musicals. Here are 10 shows from late May to early September that you don’t want to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-800x818.jpg\" alt=\"a photo of three people posed in front of a wooden door, two youngish Latino-appearing men with a Latina woman in an orange standing between them, looking at the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-800x818.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1020x1043.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-160x164.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-768x785.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1502x1536.jpg 1502w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1920x1963.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Cabrera and Regina Morones and Samuel Prince in ‘Yerma.’ \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp\">Yerma\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nMay 27–June 18, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whose passion explodes from the ink, has a special quality that knows no end. Lorca’s characters are not simply products of circumstance; they are wholly consumed by fate. His ideas and word combinations are incredibly thrilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Yerma\u003c/em>, a play not as frequently produced as the two others in his Rural Trilogy, the title character is childless, desperately yearning to be a mother. Her desperation leads to her self-destruction, which parallels the tragedy of Lorca himself, killed in 1936 at the hands of a firing squad at age 38. \u003cem>Yerma\u003c/em> is the type of play that Shotgun Players does beautifully, with the immeasurable benefit of one of Spain’s greatest voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"three people, a white woman, a Black man and a Japanese-American man in colorful outfits, perform on a stage with a fake animal skeleton of some kind\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aymee Garcia, Cole Thompson and Kennedy Kanagawa in ‘Into the Woods’ \u003ccite>(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/\">Into the Woods\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Curran, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 20–25, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is a regular stop for national tours, but \u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em> offers an added bonus: multiple original cast members from the critically acclaimed Broadway production. The show opened in May of 2022 as a two-week run at the New York City Center before a Broadway transfer led to multiple extensions and six Tony Award nominations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The masterpiece from James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim joins together multiple plots of various fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm — often with much darker consequences than their Disney counterparts. Making its way out West as well is the melancholy cow puppet Milky White, an aspect of the show that was all the rage in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"a young Black woman with curly hair poses for a portrait in a red dress\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Bay Area performer Elizabeth Carter makes her TheatreWorks directorial debut with ‘Steel Magnolias.’ \u003ccite>(Jenny Graham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/\">Steel Magnolias\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts\u003cbr>\nJune 7–July 2, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has been crafting great, innovative artistry for its recent productions, rethinking what a classic can be and infusing the work with components that expand a show’s inclusivity. (Exhibit A: their \u003cem>Little Shop of Horrors\u003c/em>, placed in San Francisco’s Chinatown, this past December.) This year, a play set in the South, which featured an all-white cast in the popular 1989 film, adapts the action into a Black-owned salon. Longtime Bay Area performer Elizabeth Carter directs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"a large group of people in top hats and shiny outfits perform a dance in a chorus line on stage\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘A Chorus Line’ at the London Palladium. San Francisco Playhouse closes its 20th anniversary season with the musical starting June 22. \u003ccite>(Alamy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2022-2023-season/a-chorus-line/\">A Chorus Line\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco Playhouse\u003cbr>\nJune 22–Sept. 9, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Playhouse is going all in with its collection of musicals, offering up three in a 12-month span. One of the most decorated musicals in history, winning nine Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1976, \u003cem>A Chorus Line\u003c/em> follows a colorful group of dancers vying for a coveted spot on a Broadway chorus line. Each dancer brings deep, personal stories with lots of humor and heartbreak. Despite their variety of backgrounds, each of the dancers ultimately asks the same question — if the dream were to end instantly after so much sacrifice, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwk0Sh3id4w\">are there any regrets\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-800x450.png\" alt=\"a group of four people, three Black women and one Black man, Questlove, smile for the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-768x432.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0.png 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team behind ‘Hippest Trip’: Dominique Morrisseau (book), Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson (executive producer), Camille A. Brown (choreography), Kamilah Forbes (director). \u003ccite>(Nicola Goode)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2023-24-season/soul-train/\">Hippest Trip — The Soul Train Musical\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Toni Rembe Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 25–Oct. 1, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chicago disc jockey Joe Cobb pierced the television speaker with his dulcet falsetto screaming, “The soooooouuulllll train,” followed by Sid McCoy smoothly introducing “the hippest trip in America” while a colorful train \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8osiVlz6Ws\">bounced along outer space\u003c/a>, you knew that Saturday morning was ready to commence with unbridled Black joy. Every ounce of \u003cem>Soul Train\u003c/em> is iconic — dapper host Don Cornelius, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lODBVM802H8\">Soul Train line\u003c/a>, prime fashion, and the show’s indelible role in popular culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new musical, which finally premieres at A.C.T. after plenty of delays, is led by a dream team, including playwright Dominique Morrisseau and musician/Soul Train savant Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. A long-anticipated world premiere, it’s poised to become the theatre event of the summer with high ambitions beyond the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a glass of water on a table in front of a woman's face, lit darkly; she has brown skin and black hair and is wearing dark lipstick\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Ramirez in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ \u003ccite>(Ben Krantz Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/virginia\">Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Flax Art & Design, Oakland\u003cbr>\nMay 26–June 18, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long considered a masterpiece of the American theater, this unflinchingly comedic and profound work from Edward Albee follows middle-aged couple George and Martha, who invite a young professor and his wife over to their place for a nightcap; a dangerous round of fun and games ensues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Theater Project is on a roll of late, producing gritty narratives from fresh playwrights while continuing to build upon a healthy repertory company of terrific artists. Popular company members Lisa Ramirez and Michael Socrates Moran perform and direct, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of a man with light brown skin and a very short beard wearing a black t-shirt\" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-1020x1531.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ari’el Stachel in ‘Out of Character’ \u003ccite>(Sergio Pasquariello)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/out-of-character/\">Out of Character\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003cbr>\nJune 23–July 20, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the beautiful musical \u003cem>The Band’s Visit\u003c/em> in 2017 was to witness an incredible set of performances from an all-star cast. One of those performers, the handsome Berkeley-raised talent Ari’el Stachel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUW-yM2y53s\">made audiences swoon\u003c/a> as the confident musician Haled. That swooning was no accident; his performance landed him the 2018 Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stachel returns home for this solo debut, telling his story of the difficulties he faced as an Israeli American of Yemeni Jewish descent shortly after the 9/11 attacks. In keeping with the homegrown nature of the piece, the show was developed at the Rep’s Ground Floor and is directed by former artistic director Tony Taccone, who led the Rep for 33 years before retiring in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"three people, a Black man in a suit, a Black woman in a white top and black pants and a Black woman in a peach dress, laugh while performing a reading in front of an applauding crowd\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-768x481.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Rotimi Agbabiaka, playwright Traci Tolmaire and actor Ryan Nicole Austin perform a staged reading of ‘In the Evening by the Moonlight’ at the Museum of African Diaspora. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lorraine Hansberry Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.lhtsf.org/\">In the Evening by the Moonlight\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Young Performer’s Theatre at Fort Mason, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 15–July 2, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is the home for this new play that imagines a conversation between three major figures: the theatre’s namesake, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone and James Baldwin. The piece is set in Hansberry’s Waverly Place flat in New York, as the three icons confront a fearful future while expressing hopes for a revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play, which received a successful reading in April, is written by Traci Tolmaire, and co-created and directed by artistic director Margo Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-800x600.png\" alt=\"three white people, two men and one woman, smile for the camera while sitting in an empty theater\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-1020x765.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-768x576.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team behind ‘Hamlet’ from the Marin Shakespeare Company, left to right: Jon Tracy (director), Bridgette Loriaux (‘Gertrude’) and Nick Musleh (‘Hamlet’). \u003ccite>(Jon Tracy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinshakespeare.org/\">Hamlet\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, San Rafael\u003cbr>\nJune 16–July 16, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing screams summer like Shakespeare in an outdoor setting, and the Marin Shakespeare Company has presented the Bard outside since 1989. Well-known Bay Area director Jon Tracy is taking over the reins as summer season artistic producer, and while he has directed for the company plenty, this is his debut in the new role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Hamlet has everything one can ask for in a drama — iconic characters, lust, betrayal, greed, humor and deception. To be or not to be in the house? Grabbing some Shakespeare on a beautiful North Bay night under the stars is a definite “to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-800x1105.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1105\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-800x1105.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1020x1408.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-160x221.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-768x1060.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1112x1536.jpeg 1112w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1483x2048.jpeg 1483w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1.jpeg 1854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Near, director of ‘The Road to Mecca.’ \u003ccite>(David Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.zspace.org/\">The Road to Mecca\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Z Below, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 4–30, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This work from Athol Fugard, long considered the greatest of South African playwrights, centers an aging Miss Helen, who fills her home and garden with sculptures made from junk after the death of her husband. As her mental health continues to deteriorate, two people — a local pastor and a young teacher — fight to determine the ultimate path of her perilous future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "The 12 Plays of Christmas: Or, How to Spend Your Winter Vacation",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rejoice, rejoice. While being home for the holidays might seem like a redundant concept this year, you don’t have to spend them in total isolation. Here are 12 ways to give yourself the gift of a little escapist pleasure at the end of this unprecedented year while supporting the Bay Area’s heavily impacted performing arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Mac gets saucy with the holidays. \u003ccite>(Little Fang Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Don We Now Our Gay Apparel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"http://sfcurran.com/shows/taylor-mac-holiday-sauce-pandemic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Holiday Sauce…Pandemic!\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCurran Theatre \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans of full-spectrum spectacle need look no further than the works of MacArthur Fellow Taylor Mac, whose shows embody an expansive vision of queer abundance (and abundant queers). A regular visitor to the Bay Area, Mac first presented \u003cem>Holiday Sauce\u003c/em> on the Curran stage in 2018, a sumptuous romp through holiday memories and songs. All proceeds of this year’s virtual offering will go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.openhousesf.org\">Openhouse\u003c/a>, a local community resource for LGBTQ+ seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Livestream Dec. 12 at 7pm only. On demand until Jan. 2. $10. Info and tickets\u003ca href=\"http://sfcurran.com/shows/taylor-mac-holiday-sauce-pandemic\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.stellartickets.com/events/the-golden-girls-live/the-golden-girls-live-the-christmas-episodes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Girls LIVE: Christmas Episodes\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSF Oasis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A beloved San Francisco holiday tradition, \u003cem>Golden Girls LIVE: Christmas Episodes\u003c/em> offers nostalgia, drag hilarity, and genuine heart all wrapped up in a Betty White-channeling bow. Co-starring Heklina (Dorothy), Matthew Martin (Blanche), D’Arcy Drollinger (Rose) and Holotta Tymes (Sophia) as our quirky quartet, this year’s episodes will be streamed live from SF Oasis headquarters, complete with a virtual sing-along and VIP meet-and-greet with the cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 17-20, times vary. $30-$50. Info and tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.stellartickets.com/events/the-golden-girls-live/the-golden-girls-live-the-christmas-episodes\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.nctcsf.org/events/A-Mighty-Queer-Virtual-Variety-Show\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>A Mighty Queer Virtual Variety Show\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>‘\u003cbr>\nNew Conservatory Theatre Center\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poets, performance artists, drag stars and circus acts alike appear on the New Conservatory Theatre Center’s virtual stage. Wrangled by Epic Party Theatre’s Richard A. Mosqueda, and hosted by operatic drag diva Dusty Pörn, this festive holiday sampler will fill you with holiday cheer. With Azuah, SevanKelee Lucky 7 Boult, Baruch Porras Hernandez, SNJV, and aerialist Joey The Tiger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 13–Jan. 3, on demand. $10-$40. Info and tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.nctcsf.org/events/A-Mighty-Queer-Virtual-Variety-Show\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist-768x559.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Claus (Glen Micheletti) is here to save Christmas for you. \u003ccite>(JW Darwin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Home Alone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.getsantaclaus.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Get Santa Claus\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nGlen A. Micheletti\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worried about how the kiddies are going to get Santa their wishlist this year? Let expert magician and professional Santa Claus Glen A. Micheletti help. Like so many other performers, Santa Glen has developed ways to bring his act online, and offers personalized virtual visits for individual family units, large family “gatherings” and company ho-ho-holiday parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rates start at $150 for one screen. Custom pricing and packages available for groups. Info and bookings\u003ca href=\"http://www.getsantaclaus.com\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/get-tickets\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Jewelry Box\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Playhouse\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re one of the thousands of Bay Area denizens who’ve seen Brian Copeland’s \u003cem>Not a Genuine Black Man\u003c/em>, this holiday prequel is for you. A richly detailed portrait of Oakland city life as seen through the eyes of a six-year-old child on a quest to earn the perfect Christmas gift for his mother. Copeland’s performance is filmed live onstage at San Francisco Playhouse, and streamed on demand through Christmas Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 28–Dec. 25, 7pm. $15-$100. Info and tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/get-tickets\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"https://cltc.org/tickets/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Christmas Carol\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCity Lights Theater Company\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s City Lights Theater Company has been finding all kinds of creative ways to keep active, as this solo performance of Charles Dickens’ \u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> proves. Adapted and performed by prolific Bay Area actor and director Mark Anderson Phillips, this virtual tour de force will be mandatory viewing for those who enjoy their classics with a twist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 15–Jan. 5, on demand. $10-$30 (or part of season pass). Info and tickets\u003ca href=\"https://cltc.org/tickets/\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cast of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at A.C.T. in 2018. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Tradition, Tradition\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"https://secure.act-sf.org/events\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Christmas Carol: On Air\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAmerican Conservatory Theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This beloved staple of Bay Area holiday tradition gets a socially distanced makeover in the form of a radio play adaptation, helmed by Peter J. Kuo (who also directed this summer’s successful Zoom production of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13885920/alls-fair-game-in-love-and-warcraft\"> \u003cem>In Love and Warcraft\u003c/em>\u003c/a>). Starring the redoubtable James Carpenter as Ebenezer Scrooge, this tale of Christmas spirit(s) continues to stand the test of time and circumstance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 4–31, 6pm listening parties and on demand. $40–$60. Info and tickets\u003ca href=\"https://secure.act-sf.org/events\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.koshercomedy.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">28th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buckle up \u003cem>bubbeleh\u003c/em>. While gathering in restaurants in person may still be out of the question, there’s nothing stopping you from ordering up a few plates of Chinese food and hanging out with Lisa Geduldig and friends for the 28th annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy show—the Christmas show by and for Jews. Featuring the award-winning talents of Judy Gold and Alex Edelman, and optional participant breakout rooms for schmoozing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 24–26, times vary. Livestream. $25-$50. Info and tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.CityBoxOffice.com/KungPao\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfballet.org/productions/nutcracker-online/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nutcracker Online\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Ballet\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first U.S. company to perform the “full” version of \u003cem>Nutcracker\u003c/em>, in 1944, the San Francisco Ballet hosts an annual, all-ages fantasia that attracts some 75,000 audience members per year. This year, sugar plum lovers will be able to view a classic performance choreographed by Helgi Tomasson, \u003ca href=\"https://video.kqed.org/video/great-performances-san-francisco-ballets-nutcracker-preview\">and filmed by KQED in 2007\u003c/a>. Features the luminous Yuan Yuan Tan as the Snow Queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 27–Dec. 31. $49 for 48-hour access. Info and tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfballet.org/productions/nutcracker-online/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13816058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Kitka does its annual 'Wintersongs' tour around the Bay Area\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Kitka-in-the-woods-e1511990404540.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kitka does its annual ‘Wintersongs’ tour around the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Photo: Tomas Pacha/Kitka )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Winter Wonderland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.kitka.org/wintersongs2020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wintersongs 2020\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nKitka\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get into the fun tradition of counting down to Christmas with Kitka’s gift of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101868688/live-performance-kitka-sings-wintersongs-of-eastern-europe\">Wintersong\u003c/a>. Each day until Dec. 31, this all-woman vocal ensemble—who specialize in excavating the traditional music of Eastern Europe and the Balkans—will release one new song online for all to enjoy, free of charge (donations accepted).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Through Dec. 31. Free. Info and songs \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitka.org/wintersongs2020\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/simplegifts/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Simple Gifts\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tim Bond took over the artistic leadership of TheatreWorks in July, he stepped into a season beset by unanticipated challenges from the pandemic shutdown of live theatre. With \u003cem>Simple Gifts\u003c/em>, he offers a welcome respite from the chaos, with a carefully chosen cast performing music from a diverse array of holiday traditions such as Kwanzaa, Christmas, Hanukkah, Noche Buena, Diwali and Las Posadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 10–28. Times vary. $10+. Info and tickets\u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/simplegifts/\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"http://manualcinema.com/christmascarol\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Christmas Carol\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nManual Cinema\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Tis the season to get Scrooged, and Manual Cinema’s original take on Dickens’ classic is poised to be one of this year’s most memorable. Created by Chicago-based Manual Cinema, who infuse their multimedia projects with elements of live performance, this daring adaptation includes shadow puppets, live actors, projections, immersive sound design and original music. Co-presented with Cal Performances for three nights (and other organizations from Dec. 3-20).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 17-19, times vary, livestream. Info and tickets\u003ca href=\"https://calperformances.org/events/2020-21/at-home/manual-cinema-a-christmas-carol/\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rejoice, rejoice. While being home for the holidays might seem like a redundant concept this year, you don’t have to spend them in total isolation. Here are 12 ways to give yourself the gift of a little escapist pleasure at the end of this unprecedented year while supporting the Bay Area’s heavily impacted performing arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/TaylorMac_HolidaySauce_credit_LittleFang-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Mac gets saucy with the holidays. \u003ccite>(Little Fang Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Don We Now Our Gay Apparel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"http://sfcurran.com/shows/taylor-mac-holiday-sauce-pandemic\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Holiday Sauce…Pandemic!\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCurran Theatre \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans of full-spectrum spectacle need look no further than the works of MacArthur Fellow Taylor Mac, whose shows embody an expansive vision of queer abundance (and abundant queers). A regular visitor to the Bay Area, Mac first presented \u003cem>Holiday Sauce\u003c/em> on the Curran stage in 2018, a sumptuous romp through holiday memories and songs. All proceeds of this year’s virtual offering will go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.openhousesf.org\">Openhouse\u003c/a>, a local community resource for LGBTQ+ seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Livestream Dec. 12 at 7pm only. On demand until Jan. 2. $10. Info and tickets\u003ca href=\"http://sfcurran.com/shows/taylor-mac-holiday-sauce-pandemic\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.stellartickets.com/events/the-golden-girls-live/the-golden-girls-live-the-christmas-episodes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Girls LIVE: Christmas Episodes\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSF Oasis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A beloved San Francisco holiday tradition, \u003cem>Golden Girls LIVE: Christmas Episodes\u003c/em> offers nostalgia, drag hilarity, and genuine heart all wrapped up in a Betty White-channeling bow. Co-starring Heklina (Dorothy), Matthew Martin (Blanche), D’Arcy Drollinger (Rose) and Holotta Tymes (Sophia) as our quirky quartet, this year’s episodes will be streamed live from SF Oasis headquarters, complete with a virtual sing-along and VIP meet-and-greet with the cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 17-20, times vary. $30-$50. Info and tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.stellartickets.com/events/the-golden-girls-live/the-golden-girls-live-the-christmas-episodes\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.nctcsf.org/events/A-Mighty-Queer-Virtual-Variety-Show\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>A Mighty Queer Virtual Variety Show\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>‘\u003cbr>\nNew Conservatory Theatre Center\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poets, performance artists, drag stars and circus acts alike appear on the New Conservatory Theatre Center’s virtual stage. Wrangled by Epic Party Theatre’s Richard A. Mosqueda, and hosted by operatic drag diva Dusty Pörn, this festive holiday sampler will fill you with holiday cheer. With Azuah, SevanKelee Lucky 7 Boult, Baruch Porras Hernandez, SNJV, and aerialist Joey The Tiger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 13–Jan. 3, on demand. $10-$40. Info and tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.nctcsf.org/events/A-Mighty-Queer-Virtual-Variety-Show\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist-768x559.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/SantaGlen_photocredit_courtesyoftheartist.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Claus (Glen Micheletti) is here to save Christmas for you. \u003ccite>(JW Darwin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Home Alone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.getsantaclaus.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Get Santa Claus\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nGlen A. Micheletti\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worried about how the kiddies are going to get Santa their wishlist this year? Let expert magician and professional Santa Claus Glen A. Micheletti help. Like so many other performers, Santa Glen has developed ways to bring his act online, and offers personalized virtual visits for individual family units, large family “gatherings” and company ho-ho-holiday parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rates start at $150 for one screen. Custom pricing and packages available for groups. Info and bookings\u003ca href=\"http://www.getsantaclaus.com\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/get-tickets\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Jewelry Box\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Playhouse\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re one of the thousands of Bay Area denizens who’ve seen Brian Copeland’s \u003cem>Not a Genuine Black Man\u003c/em>, this holiday prequel is for you. A richly detailed portrait of Oakland city life as seen through the eyes of a six-year-old child on a quest to earn the perfect Christmas gift for his mother. Copeland’s performance is filmed live onstage at San Francisco Playhouse, and streamed on demand through Christmas Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 28–Dec. 25, 7pm. $15-$100. Info and tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/get-tickets\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"https://cltc.org/tickets/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Christmas Carol\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCity Lights Theater Company\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s City Lights Theater Company has been finding all kinds of creative ways to keep active, as this solo performance of Charles Dickens’ \u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> proves. Adapted and performed by prolific Bay Area actor and director Mark Anderson Phillips, this virtual tour de force will be mandatory viewing for those who enjoy their classics with a twist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 15–Jan. 5, on demand. $10-$30 (or part of season pass). Info and tickets\u003ca href=\"https://cltc.org/tickets/\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/ACT_AChristmasCarol2018_photocredit_KevinBerne.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cast of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at A.C.T. in 2018. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Tradition, Tradition\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘\u003ca href=\"https://secure.act-sf.org/events\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Christmas Carol: On Air\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAmerican Conservatory Theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This beloved staple of Bay Area holiday tradition gets a socially distanced makeover in the form of a radio play adaptation, helmed by Peter J. Kuo (who also directed this summer’s successful Zoom production of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13885920/alls-fair-game-in-love-and-warcraft\"> \u003cem>In Love and Warcraft\u003c/em>\u003c/a>). Starring the redoubtable James Carpenter as Ebenezer Scrooge, this tale of Christmas spirit(s) continues to stand the test of time and circumstance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 4–31, 6pm listening parties and on demand. $40–$60. Info and tickets\u003ca href=\"https://secure.act-sf.org/events\"> here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.koshercomedy.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">28th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buckle up \u003cem>bubbeleh\u003c/em>. While gathering in restaurants in person may still be out of the question, there’s nothing stopping you from ordering up a few plates of Chinese food and hanging out with Lisa Geduldig and friends for the 28th annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy show—the Christmas show by and for Jews. Featuring the award-winning talents of Judy Gold and Alex Edelman, and optional participant breakout rooms for schmoozing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 24–26, times vary. Livestream. $25-$50. 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"content": "\u003cp>Which is worse? To have your work minimized as boring and routine? Or trumpeted to the heavens but the credit hogged by the man you work for? These narratives are sadly common when you look at the history of women in science — but they make for good theater, as in the play \u003ca href=\"http://cltc.org/silent-sky/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Silent Sky\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in San Jose.\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play focuses on a woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose work laid the ground for later revelations, like the idea the universe is much bigger than our little solar system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Harvard Observatory hired her at the turn of the 20th century, women weren’t allowed to look through its telescopes. The delicate dears might catch a chill in the evening air. Also, they could be paid a whole lot less than men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leavitt and other “computers,” as female mathematicians were called then, volunteered or worked for 30 cents an hour cataloguing the brightness of stars on photographic plates taken by astronomer Edward Charles Pickering. But Leavitt, looking down at those plates of Cepheid variable stars, had an a-ha moment. Well, two of them, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brightness of these “variable” stars varies, from day to day or week to week. Leavitt figured out that the longer a star took to change brightness, the brighter it actually was. So, if a star took a longer time to change brightness than others but didn’t appear brighter, it must be farther away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Three pioneering woman astronomers at work in the Harvard Observatory: from left, Williamina Fleming (Karen DeHart), Henrietta Leavitt (Maria Giere Marquis) and Annie Jump Cannon (April Green). \" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three pioneering woman astronomers at work in the Harvard Observatory: from left, Williamina Fleming (Karen DeHart), Henrietta Leavitt (Maria Giere Marquis) and Annie Jump Cannon (April Green). \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Taylor Sanders)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking at a clutch of these stars in the same astronomic neighborhood, the Magellanic Clouds, she came to another conclusion: if one star looked much brighter than another, it was probably brighter. Together, these observations help astronomers figure out relative distances between stars and the Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you know how quickly the star is changing brightness, you can actually measure its distance. It helped us establish the size and scale of the universe,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucolick.org/~egates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elinor Gates\u003c/a> of Lick Observatory was a local science consultant for the City Lights production of Silent Sky, written by \u003ca href=\"http://laurengunderson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lauren Gunderson\u003c/a> of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gunderson has a taste for science and a habit of profiling women under-represented in history. Leavitt, she said, was an obvious choice. “Her story is a beautiful one. Her scientific discovery is profound. She really had a major impact. It was a real pleasure and an honor to tell her story,” Gunderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Silent Sky\u003c/em> has been making the rounds of small community theaters around the country since its publication in 2010. It debuted in the Bay Area in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/129311/seeking-answers-in-a-silent-sky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014\u003c/a> with a \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a> production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Science and Leavitt’s love for it may be at the heart of the play, but Gunderson externalizes what could be a quiet internal drama by exploring Leavitt’s relationships with family and colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Astronomer_Edward_Charles_Pickerings_Harvard_computers-800x585.jpeg\" alt=\""Pickering's Harem," so-called, for the group of women computers at the Harvard College Observatory, who worked for the astronomer Edward Charles Pickering. The group included Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, and Williamina Fleming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Astronomer_Edward_Charles_Pickerings_Harvard_computers-800x585.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Astronomer_Edward_Charles_Pickerings_Harvard_computers-160x117.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Astronomer_Edward_Charles_Pickerings_Harvard_computers-768x562.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Astronomer_Edward_Charles_Pickerings_Harvard_computers-1020x746.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Astronomer_Edward_Charles_Pickerings_Harvard_computers-1200x878.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/Astronomer_Edward_Charles_Pickerings_Harvard_computers.jpeg 1762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Pickering’s Harem,” so-called, for the group of women computers at the Harvard College Observatory, who worked for the astronomer Edward Charles Pickering. The group included Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, and Williamina Fleming. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Harvard College Observatory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Married sister Margaret provides a convenient Victorian Era counterpoint, content to keep to the domestic sphere as society expected at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wisecracking buddies Williamina Fleming and Annie Jump Cannon stand in for the team of Harvard computers Leavitt worked with. Of course, Fleming and Cannon were accomplished astronomers as well, stultified in many of the same ways. The Harvard Computers in that room you see pictured above were full of scientific talent, and if they weren’t respected properly, they were surrounded by data they could use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In real life, Cannon shares credit with Pickering for designing the Harvard Classification Scheme, the first serious attempt to classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types. Fleming, who first came to Harvard to work as a maid, is best known now for her discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in 1888.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not actually the story of one incredible woman. It’s the story of four!” said Gunderson. “I’m inspired because it’s a true story. They were doing this menial work, but even so, they discovered things that changed the course of astronomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about all of these people who are just so hungry for the truth,” said actress \u003ca href=\"http://www.mariagmarquis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Marquis\u003c/a>, who plays Leavitt. Her favorite line in the play? “The real point is seeing something bigger, and knowing you’re a small part of it, if you’re lucky. In the end, that is a life well lived.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37170_citylights_silentsky_mariagieremarquis_jessicawhittemore_hug-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"For women in the early 1900s, balancing career and family was never easy. Here, Henrietta's (Maria Giere Marquis, left) relationship with her sister Margaret (Jessica Whittemore) has become strained.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37170_citylights_silentsky_mariagieremarquis_jessicawhittemore_hug-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37170_citylights_silentsky_mariagieremarquis_jessicawhittemore_hug-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37170_citylights_silentsky_mariagieremarquis_jessicawhittemore_hug-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37170_citylights_silentsky_mariagieremarquis_jessicawhittemore_hug-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37170_citylights_silentsky_mariagieremarquis_jessicawhittemore_hug-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37170_citylights_silentsky_mariagieremarquis_jessicawhittemore_hug-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For women in the early 1900s, balancing career and family was never easy. Here, Henrietta’s (Maria Giere Marquis, left) relationship with her sister Margaret (Jessica Whittemore) has become strained. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Taylor Sanders)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13853573,forum_2010101864798,news_10342438' label='Related Coverage']Marquis is a stand in for all of us who admire astronomy from a distance. “If you talk to astronomers, they all know who [Leavitt] is. But we aren’t taught about her at all. So I did a bunch of research then, after being cast, and was like, ‘Why are we not yelling her name from the rooftops?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leavitt did publish her findings, and her name was on those papers, but their importance didn’t become clear to the world until years later, when Edwin Hubble used her work to show how the universe is expanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hubble often said Leavitt deserved a Nobel Prize for her work, but even though he was a nominator on the Nobel committee, it was Swedish mathematician Gustaf Mittag-Leffler who tried to nominate Leavitt in 1924. He was too late. Leavitt died in 1921, and Nobel Prizes can’t be awarded posthumously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never got proper credit during her lifetime, but Leavitt’s work lit the way for later discoveries. 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For more information, click \u003ca href=\"http://cltc.org/silent-sky/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Which is worse? To have your work minimized as boring and routine? Or trumpeted to the heavens but the credit hogged by the man you work for? These narratives are sadly common when you look at the history of women in science — but they make for good theater, as in the play \u003ca href=\"http://cltc.org/silent-sky/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Silent Sky\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in San Jose.\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play focuses on a woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose work laid the ground for later revelations, like the idea the universe is much bigger than our little solar system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Harvard Observatory hired her at the turn of the 20th century, women weren’t allowed to look through its telescopes. The delicate dears might catch a chill in the evening air. Also, they could be paid a whole lot less than men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leavitt and other “computers,” as female mathematicians were called then, volunteered or worked for 30 cents an hour cataloguing the brightness of stars on photographic plates taken by astronomer Edward Charles Pickering. But Leavitt, looking down at those plates of Cepheid variable stars, had an a-ha moment. Well, two of them, really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brightness of these “variable” stars varies, from day to day or week to week. Leavitt figured out that the longer a star took to change brightness, the brighter it actually was. So, if a star took a longer time to change brightness than others but didn’t appear brighter, it must be farther away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13857560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13857560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Three pioneering woman astronomers at work in the Harvard Observatory: from left, Williamina Fleming (Karen DeHart), Henrietta Leavitt (Maria Giere Marquis) and Annie Jump Cannon (April Green). \" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS37167_citylights_silentsky_astronomers-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three pioneering woman astronomers at work in the Harvard Observatory: from left, Williamina Fleming (Karen DeHart), Henrietta Leavitt (Maria Giere Marquis) and Annie Jump Cannon (April Green). \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Taylor Sanders)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking at a clutch of these stars in the same astronomic neighborhood, the Magellanic Clouds, she came to another conclusion: if one star looked much brighter than another, it was probably brighter. Together, these observations help astronomers figure out relative distances between stars and the Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you know how quickly the star is changing brightness, you can actually measure its distance. It helped us establish the size and scale of the universe,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucolick.org/~egates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elinor Gates\u003c/a> of Lick Observatory was a local science consultant for the City Lights production of Silent Sky, written by \u003ca href=\"http://laurengunderson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lauren Gunderson\u003c/a> of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gunderson has a taste for science and a habit of profiling women under-represented in history. Leavitt, she said, was an obvious choice. “Her story is a beautiful one. Her scientific discovery is profound. She really had a major impact. It was a real pleasure and an honor to tell her story,” Gunderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Silent Sky\u003c/em> has been making the rounds of small community theaters around the country since its publication in 2010. 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The group included Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, and Williamina Fleming. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Harvard College Observatory)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Married sister Margaret provides a convenient Victorian Era counterpoint, content to keep to the domestic sphere as society expected at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wisecracking buddies Williamina Fleming and Annie Jump Cannon stand in for the team of Harvard computers Leavitt worked with. Of course, Fleming and Cannon were accomplished astronomers as well, stultified in many of the same ways. The Harvard Computers in that room you see pictured above were full of scientific talent, and if they weren’t respected properly, they were surrounded by data they could use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In real life, Cannon shares credit with Pickering for designing the Harvard Classification Scheme, the first serious attempt to classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types. Fleming, who first came to Harvard to work as a maid, is best known now for her discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in 1888.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not actually the story of one incredible woman. It’s the story of four!” said Gunderson. “I’m inspired because it’s a true story. They were doing this menial work, but even so, they discovered things that changed the course of astronomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about all of these people who are just so hungry for the truth,” said actress \u003ca href=\"http://www.mariagmarquis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Marquis\u003c/a>, who plays Leavitt. Her favorite line in the play? “The real point is seeing something bigger, and knowing you’re a small part of it, if you’re lucky. 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"content": "\u003cp>This week marks the start of this year’s season of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatreworks.org/education/oskar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Oskar\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in schools, community centers and hospitals around the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatreworks.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a> tours with a short list of plays especially focused on the challenges of being a kid today. \u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oskar and the Last Straw\u003c/em>, for instance, is about a 10 year-old lugging around what appears to be the biggest backpack known to humankind. 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It may sound a little silly, but the idea behind “drama therapy” — as plays like this one are called — is to introduce coping skills to elementary school kids before they’re really overwhelmed in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oskar plays — there are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.whatwouldoskardo.org/the-plays-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five in all\u003c/a> — were originally commissioned from playwright \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDYP5B63aDxdrZ5gPh47Dmw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Gomolvilas\u003c/a> by the Palo Alto Unified School District about a decade ago, around the time it began to struggle with teen suicide spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Oskar5_-ScottDevinePhoto-800x757.jpeg\" alt='Jomar Martinez, Vivian Marino, and Filip Hofman perform in “Oskar and the Big Bully Battle,\" touring with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley through April 5, 2019.' width=\"800\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Oskar5_-ScottDevinePhoto-800x757.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Oskar5_-ScottDevinePhoto-160x151.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Oskar5_-ScottDevinePhoto-768x726.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Oskar5_-ScottDevinePhoto-1020x965.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Oskar5_-ScottDevinePhoto-1200x1135.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Oskar5_-ScottDevinePhoto-1920x1816.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/Oskar5_-ScottDevinePhoto.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jomar Martinez, Vivian Marino, and Filip Hofman perform in “Oskar and the Big Bully Battle,” touring with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley through April 5, 2019. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Scott Devine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was a response to community concerns,” said TheatreWorks’ Director of Education Lisa Giglio, who added the play topics come from suggestions forwarded by the schools, including embracing diversity, gender stereotypes and bullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other play on tap this year from TheatreWorks is \u003cem>Oskar the Big Bully Battle\u003c/em>. “I think we know it in our bones, sadly, that bullying would be the number one thing that people will relate to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or #2, according to recent research from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/02/20/most-u-s-teens-see-anxiety-and-depression-as-a-major-problem-among-their-peers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a> that ranks anxiety and depression as #1. 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How do we convey it to kids that haven’t yet reached that point?” said \u003cem>Oskar\u003c/em> tour stage manager Rachel Spanner, who added the series is designed to plant the seed in children’s minds that they can turn to friends, family and educators for help in later years for “coping strategies that actually work in high school and college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plays last a little more than a half hour, and are typically attached to lesson plans ahead of the performance and Q&As after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully these plays can provide a way for kids to deal that they either didn’t think of before or were thinking of doing but didn’t know how to approach it,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.filiphofman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filip Hofman\u003c/a>, who plays Oskar this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, grown ups are often the primary source of stress in children’s lives, and they often can’t stay off social media unless their goal is total social isolation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ever fight with your neighbors? Maybe she steals your paper. Or he parks that clunker in front of your house. Or maybe I’m describing \u003cem>you\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playwright \u003ca href=\"http://www.karenzacarias.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen Zacarías\u003c/a> says she was inspired to write \u003cem>Native Gardens \u003c/em>after a dinner party in which a number of her friends related problems with their neighbors. “We all talked about how terrible it is to be in a fight with your neighbor, because it’s where you live, you know. But also, I noticed what all the stories had in common: there was something primal and poetic and absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That got Zacarías thinking, “What if every fight in the world can be narrowed down to four people in a backyard? And what can I learn about myself and my community by looking at it like that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacarías lives in Washington, D.C., but a story about neighbors new and old struggling to find common ground with each other resonates nationwide. In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/201819-season/201819-season/native-gardens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a> is one of six companies to perform it this year alone. Others include the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/native-gardens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pasadena Playhouse\u003c/a>, where \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em> star Jason Alexander is directing, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/17-18-season/native-gardens/#?startDate=2018-08-01&?endDate=2018-08-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Globe\u003c/a> in San Diego and \u003ca href=\"http://www.intiman.org/nativegardens/#showinfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intiman Theatre\u003c/a> in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13840151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"It's all smiles and laughter before two couples get to know each other, really, in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s all smiles and laughter before two couples get to know each other, really, in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plot (pun intended)\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A young Latino couple, \u003c/span>Pablo (Michael Evans Lopez) and Tania (Marlene Martinez),\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moves into a nice suburb in Washington, D.C.. They form a fast friendship with the older white couple next door, \u003c/span>Frank (Jackson Davis) and Virginia (Amy Resnick)\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Both couples listen to NPR. Both couples have strong, if conflicting, philosophies about gardening. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then it turns out the fence between them is located two feet onto the young couple’s property. What’s going to happen to \u003c/span>Frank’s potentially prize-winning purple iris and hydrangea?\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add a dash of racial tension — it is a border dispute after all — and you have instant comedy. Yes, says Zacarías, who adds she \u003ci>judges\u003c/i> everyone in the play, including herself.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> Thinking back to a small neighborly dispute she survived, she says “\u003c/span>You know, I wanted it to be right more than I wanted it to be over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13840153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A simple property line dispute becomes a proxy for issues neighbors find harder to talk about, like racism, sexism, ageism, culture, class, privilege and immigration in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simple property line dispute becomes a proxy for issues neighbors find harder to talk about, like racism, sexism, ageism, culture, class, privilege and immigration in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"story_text\">She also wants the audience to change their alliances over the course of the play. Zacarías studied international relations at Stanford, which proved good preparation for this play.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> She says, \u003c/span>“I think comedy is one of the best ways to talk about things that are thorny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story_text\">Everybody’s earnest, self-pitying, self-righteous and patronizing. It’s impossible to see the play without thinking of the national border dispute directed by the Trump Administration, but this story could take place in almost any town in Silicon Valley. We can all irritate each other very, very easily, even without the help of politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Native Gardens\u003c/strong>, put on by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, runs through September 16th at the Mountain View Center \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>for the Performing Arts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ever fight with your neighbors? Maybe she steals your paper. Or he parks that clunker in front of your house. Or maybe I’m describing \u003cem>you\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playwright \u003ca href=\"http://www.karenzacarias.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen Zacarías\u003c/a> says she was inspired to write \u003cem>Native Gardens \u003c/em>after a dinner party in which a number of her friends related problems with their neighbors. “We all talked about how terrible it is to be in a fight with your neighbor, because it’s where you live, you know. But also, I noticed what all the stories had in common: there was something primal and poetic and absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That got Zacarías thinking, “What if every fight in the world can be narrowed down to four people in a backyard? And what can I learn about myself and my community by looking at it like that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacarías lives in Washington, D.C., but a story about neighbors new and old struggling to find common ground with each other resonates nationwide. In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/201819-season/201819-season/native-gardens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a> is one of six companies to perform it this year alone. Others include the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/native-gardens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pasadena Playhouse\u003c/a>, where \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em> star Jason Alexander is directing, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/17-18-season/native-gardens/#?startDate=2018-08-01&?endDate=2018-08-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Globe\u003c/a> in San Diego and \u003ca href=\"http://www.intiman.org/nativegardens/#showinfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intiman Theatre\u003c/a> in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13840151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"It's all smiles and laughter before two couples get to know each other, really, in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s all smiles and laughter before two couples get to know each other, really, in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plot (pun intended)\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A young Latino couple, \u003c/span>Pablo (Michael Evans Lopez) and Tania (Marlene Martinez),\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moves into a nice suburb in Washington, D.C.. They form a fast friendship with the older white couple next door, \u003c/span>Frank (Jackson Davis) and Virginia (Amy Resnick)\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Both couples listen to NPR. Both couples have strong, if conflicting, philosophies about gardening. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then it turns out the fence between them is located two feet onto the young couple’s property. What’s going to happen to \u003c/span>Frank’s potentially prize-winning purple iris and hydrangea?\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add a dash of racial tension — it is a border dispute after all — and you have instant comedy. Yes, says Zacarías, who adds she \u003ci>judges\u003c/i> everyone in the play, including herself.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> Thinking back to a small neighborly dispute she survived, she says “\u003c/span>You know, I wanted it to be right more than I wanted it to be over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13840153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A simple property line dispute becomes a proxy for issues neighbors find harder to talk about, like racism, sexism, ageism, culture, class, privilege and immigration in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simple property line dispute becomes a proxy for issues neighbors find harder to talk about, like racism, sexism, ageism, culture, class, privilege and immigration in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"story_text\">She also wants the audience to change their alliances over the course of the play. Zacarías studied international relations at Stanford, which proved good preparation for this play.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> She says, \u003c/span>“I think comedy is one of the best ways to talk about things that are thorny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story_text\">Everybody’s earnest, self-pitying, self-righteous and patronizing. It’s impossible to see the play without thinking of the national border dispute directed by the Trump Administration, but this story could take place in almost any town in Silicon Valley. We can all irritate each other very, very easily, even without the help of politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Native Gardens\u003c/strong>, put on by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, runs through September 16th at the Mountain View Center \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>for the Performing Arts. For more info, click \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/201819-season/201819-season/native-gardens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Trump Administration’s policies on travel and immigration have reignited interest in an old precedent from World War II: the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans by the Roosevelt Administration with Executive Order 9066.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opinion pieces on the right, left and in-between argue over the similarities and differences, but the arguments at the core of the debate are not about the specifics of how people are incarcerated or what legal principle is up for review. We are at a point in time when we are asking as a nation whether it’s OK to target specific ethnic groups to address large and complicated threats to our national welfare. That’s what brings to mind World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is the first time, so far as I am aware, that we have sustained a substantial restriction of the personal liberty of citizens of the United States based upon the accident of race or ancestry.” – \u003ci>Hirabayashi v. United States\u003c/i>, 320 U.S. 81 (1943)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That political context makes \u003cem>Hold These Truths\u003c/em>, a play written more than a decade ago about that case and the man behind the name Hirabayashi, strikingly resonant as it makes its Bay Area premiere this week with \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/201819-season/201819-season/hold-these-truths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon Hirabayashi was a college student in 1942 when he decided to turn himself in for refusing to abide by laws established to isolate Japanese and Japanese-Americans in the Western United States, on no other basis than race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Over sixty percent are American citizens, yet they are denied, without due process of law, the civil liberties which are theirs.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I were to register and cooperate under these circumstances, I would be giving helpless consent to the denial of practically all of the things which give me incentive to live.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I consider it my duty to maintain the democratic standards for which this nation lives. Therefore–I must refuse this order for evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signed, Gordon K. Hirabayashi.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Joel de la Fuente plays more than 35 characters in the one-man play "Hold These Truths." Director Lisa Rothe says, "It was pretty intense to go through all of those characters and find, you know, the vocal and physical characteristics for each one. That takes [an actor] who's got a tremendous range and flexibility. "\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31791_HTT_KevinBerne7-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel de la Fuente plays more than 35 characters in the one-man play “Hold These Truths.” Director Lisa Rothe says, “It was pretty intense to go through all of those characters and find, you know, the vocal and physical characteristics for each one. That takes [an actor] who’s got a tremendous range and flexibility. “ \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hold These Truths\u003c/em> was written by Watsonville-born, Los Angeles-based actress Jeanne Sakata. As a Japanese-American, she thought she knew the history of the internment camps.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> So she was surprised to learn about Hirabayashi by watching a 1992 documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://caamedia.org/films/personal-matter-gordon-hirabayashi-vs-the-united-states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>A Personal Matter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just flabbergasted me that I didn’t know. At the same time, the story itself delighted me,” Sakata says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Japanese-Americans took their fight against internment all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1940s. But most people, if they know about the court cases at all, know about \u003cem>Korematsu v. United States\u003c/em>. (The podcast \u003cem>More Perfect\u003c/em> provides an excellent history of that story \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-american-pendulum-i/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sakata considered writing a play about all three: Korematsu, Hirabayashi and \u003ca href=\"https://www.minoruyasuitribute.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minoru Yasuri\u003c/a>. But the longtime actress had never written a play before, and that challenge seemed too daunting. “It was just a little too much to handle. So I thought I would just focus on telling this one story that I loved so much, and that I never saw in my history books,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13837158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-800x934.jpg\" alt=\"After World War II and his landmark court battle, Gordon Hirabayashi became a sociologist.\" width=\"800\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-800x934.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-160x187.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-768x896.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-1020x1190.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-1028x1200.jpg 1028w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-1180x1377.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-960x1120.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-240x280.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-375x438.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut-520x607.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/RS31793_Gordon20Hirabayashi_AP20Photo_1985-qut.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After World War II and his landmark court battle, Gordon Hirabayashi became a sociologist. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of the Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of what intrigued Sakata was Hirabayashi’s Quaker faith. “I had grown up in a Japanese-American Presbyterian family, and that’s something I never heard of: a second generation Japanese-American Quaker.” Hirabayashi converted in college, but as Sakata learned, it wasn’t a big stretch, given that his parents were members of a Japanese Christian sect called \u003ci>Mukyōkaishugi\u003c/i>, known for its socially progressive values similar to those of the Quakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps it took a man given to iconoclasm to pick a fight with the federal government. He had already joined the Quaker-run \u003ca href=\"https://www.afsc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Friends Service Committee\u003c/a> by that point, as the group was helping Japanese-Americans thrown into disarray by Executive Order 9066. Later, the ACLU would help him in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Korematsu and Yasui, Hirabayashi lost before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was legally vindicated in the 1980s, though. Hirabayashi’s convictions on both charges were overturned by the U.S. District Court in Seattle and the federal appeals curt, because evidence arose that the Solicitor General’s office cited examples of Japanese-American sabotage in its Supreme Court arguments, despite having determined the rumored incidents were indeed rumors only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirabayashi died in 2012 and received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Showcase for An Asian-American Actor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hold These Truths\u003c/em> provides plenty of opportunity to stretch for Joel de la Fuente, perhaps best known for his role as Inspector Kido in Amazon’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Man-High-Castle-Season/dp/B00RSGIVVO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Man in the High Castle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He gets to play more than 35 characters, switching between them with impressively deft rapidity, sometimes mid-sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sakata says, “I really wanted one Asian-American actor to have a chance to show his virtuosity. You see him do one role on \u003cem>High Castle,\u003c/em> but in this play, you get to see him play an amazing array.” In a way, the role is a vindication for Sakata, too, she says, having suffered as an actress from the paucity of complex roles written for Asian-Americans during her own career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch de la Fuente perform a conversation between Gordon Hirabayashi and his mother in \u003cem>Hold These Truths\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Gi2BMEYqA]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hold These Truths\u003c/em> made its world premiere in 2007 in Los Angeles with \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastwestplayers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East West Players\u003c/a>, the nation’s oldest Asian-American theater company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sakata says she originally wrote the play to preserve and celebrate the history, even though now it sounds like it was ripped from today’s news headlines. “We are in a time right now politically where we need some beam of light, some hope, and I hope that the story will provide that, will inspire us to stand for what’s right even when times are going against us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lisarothe.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Rothe\u003c/a>, who’s been directing this play since 2009, agrees that audience reaction has changed markedly over the years the play has traveled the country. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Trump Administration’s policies on travel and immigration have reignited interest in an old precedent from World War II: the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans by the Roosevelt Administration with Executive Order 9066.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opinion pieces on the right, left and in-between argue over the similarities and differences, but the arguments at the core of the debate are not about the specifics of how people are incarcerated or what legal principle is up for review. We are at a point in time when we are asking as a nation whether it’s OK to target specific ethnic groups to address large and complicated threats to our national welfare. That’s what brings to mind World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is the first time, so far as I am aware, that we have sustained a substantial restriction of the personal liberty of citizens of the United States based upon the accident of race or ancestry.” – \u003ci>Hirabayashi v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just flabbergasted me that I didn’t know. At the same time, the story itself delighted me,” Sakata says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Japanese-Americans took their fight against internment all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1940s. But most people, if they know about the court cases at all, know about \u003cem>Korematsu v. United States\u003c/em>. (The podcast \u003cem>More Perfect\u003c/em> provides an excellent history of that story \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-american-pendulum-i/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sakata considered writing a play about all three: Korematsu, Hirabayashi and \u003ca href=\"https://www.minoruyasuitribute.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minoru Yasuri\u003c/a>. But the longtime actress had never written a play before, and that challenge seemed too daunting. “It was just a little too much to handle. 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Hirabayashi’s convictions on both charges were overturned by the U.S. District Court in Seattle and the federal appeals curt, because evidence arose that the Solicitor General’s office cited examples of Japanese-American sabotage in its Supreme Court arguments, despite having determined the rumored incidents were indeed rumors only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirabayashi died in 2012 and received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Showcase for An Asian-American Actor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hold These Truths\u003c/em> provides plenty of opportunity to stretch for Joel de la Fuente, perhaps best known for his role as Inspector Kido in Amazon’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Man-High-Castle-Season/dp/B00RSGIVVO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Man in the High Castle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. 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You see him do one role on \u003cem>High Castle,\u003c/em> but in this play, you get to see him play an amazing array.” In a way, the role is a vindication for Sakata, too, she says, having suffered as an actress from the paucity of complex roles written for Asian-Americans during her own career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch de la Fuente perform a conversation between Gordon Hirabayashi and his mother in \u003cem>Hold These Truths\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/H-Gi2BMEYqA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/H-Gi2BMEYqA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hold These Truths\u003c/em> made its world premiere in 2007 in Los Angeles with \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastwestplayers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East West Players\u003c/a>, the nation’s oldest Asian-American theater company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sakata says she originally wrote the play to preserve and celebrate the history, even though now it sounds like it was ripped from today’s news headlines. “We are in a time right now politically where we need some beam of light, some hope, and I hope that the story will provide that, will inspire us to stand for what’s right even when times are going against us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lisarothe.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Rothe\u003c/a>, who’s been directing this play since 2009, agrees that audience reaction has changed markedly over the years the play has traveled the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>Robert Kelley, the founding artistic director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.TheatreWorks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, a professional performing arts organization specializing in new works for the musical theater stage, has announced he will retire at the end of the company’s 50th season, in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for a long time,” Kelley says. “The half-century mark is a really great time to change over, and a great time to bring in some new leadership for the company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley, 70, is one of the longest tenured artistic directors of a professional regional theater organization in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13207858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13207858 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Popcorn, an anti-war musical which premiered in July 1970, was the very first production of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-1920x1081.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Popcorn, an anti-war musical which premiered in July 1970, was the very first production of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the behest of the city of Palo Alto, Kelley launched the company as an experimental youth troupe in 1970, a couple of years after he graduated from Stanford. Today, TheatreWorks is one of the largest theater companies in the Bay Area, together with American Conservatory Theater (ACT) and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. With an $8.5 million annual budget, the non-profit organization presents five productions each season in Mountain View and three in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still very much love making theater,” Kelley says. “I hope I’ll continue with the company in lots of different ways — as a director, as a cheerleader, and in any way that our new leadership wants to use me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TheatreWorks’ board will begin a national search for Kelley’s successor this year, with the intention of having a new artistic director in place as his final season begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, TheatreWorks has become a launchpad for national hits\u003cem>. \u003c/em>One of the most significant is \u003cem>Memphis\u003c/em>, which went from its start at TheatreWorks in 2002 to a three-year run on Broadway, a 19-month national tour, and an extended run in London’s West End. Loosely based on the life of one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s, \u003cem>Memphis\u003c/em> won four Tonys in 2010, including one for Best Musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13206784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13206784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley with the composer of \"Memphis\" and Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan at the Broadway opening night, October 19, 2009.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley with the composer of “Memphis” and Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan at the Broadway opening night, October 19, 2009. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelley also cast dozens of young actors who went on to major careers on Broadway and in Hollywood. These include Jessica Chastain (\u003cem>Zero Dark Thirty, The Martian, The Help\u003c/em>), James Monroe Iglehart (\u003cem>Aladdin, Hamilton\u003c/em>), Daveed Diggs (\u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em>), Colman Domingo (\u003cem>The Scottsboro Boys, Selma\u003c/em>), Željko Ivanek (\u003cem>Damages, \u003c/em>\u003cem>Madam Secretary)\u003c/em>, and Francis Jue (\u003cem>Yellow Face, \u003c/em>\u003cem>Madam Secretary).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love working with other artists and collaborating with people from all over the country,” Kelley says. “We’ve really found that a lot of people who’ve come here are eager to come back.” Iglehart and Jue are among those who’ve returned to TheatreWorks over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its New Works Festival and Writers’ Retreat, TheatreWorks has also helped foster some major writing talents, including Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Joe DiPietro and Beth Henley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13207859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13207859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"As artistic director of TheatreWorks, Robert Kelley has programmed a diverse roster of original dramas and musicals. Brad Erickson, head of the Theatre Bay Area, says Kelley's programming draws in audiences, "but also stretches them."\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-1920x1082.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-1180x665.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As artistic director of TheatreWorks, Robert Kelley has programmed a diverse roster of original dramas and musicals. Brad Erickson, head of the Theatre Bay Area, says Kelley’s programming draws in audiences, “but also stretches them.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was so passionate and committed to the community from the get-go,” says Carey Perloff, who is stepping down from her role as longtime artistic director of ACT at the end of next season. “It’s an audience with such an appetite for adventure. So that tells you who’s here, and how hungry they are. I think the leadership has led the audience, and the audience has led the leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley has directed more than 170 productions for TheatreWorks during his tenure, and won the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Direction nine times\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His story is the quintessential Silicon Valley origin story,” says Brad Erickson, head of \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatrebayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theatre Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional performing arts service organization. “It’s the theater version of creating Hewlett-Packard in a garage. He came out of Stanford. He starts this small company. He sticks with it, and some years later, it’s now not only one of the leading companies in the Bay Area, but one of the leading companies in the country, doing world-class work and affecting the whole American canon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Robert Kelley, the founding artistic director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.TheatreWorks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, a professional performing arts organization specializing in new works for the musical theater stage, has announced he will retire at the end of the company’s 50th season, in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for a long time,” Kelley says. “The half-century mark is a really great time to change over, and a great time to bring in some new leadership for the company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley, 70, is one of the longest tenured artistic directors of a professional regional theater organization in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13207858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13207858 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Popcorn, an anti-war musical which premiered in July 1970, was the very first production of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-1920x1081.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Popcorn_1970-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Popcorn, an anti-war musical which premiered in July 1970, was the very first production of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the behest of the city of Palo Alto, Kelley launched the company as an experimental youth troupe in 1970, a couple of years after he graduated from Stanford. Today, TheatreWorks is one of the largest theater companies in the Bay Area, together with American Conservatory Theater (ACT) and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. With an $8.5 million annual budget, the non-profit organization presents five productions each season in Mountain View and three in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still very much love making theater,” Kelley says. “I hope I’ll continue with the company in lots of different ways — as a director, as a cheerleader, and in any way that our new leadership wants to use me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TheatreWorks’ board will begin a national search for Kelley’s successor this year, with the intention of having a new artistic director in place as his final season begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, TheatreWorks has become a launchpad for national hits\u003cem>. \u003c/em>One of the most significant is \u003cem>Memphis\u003c/em>, which went from its start at TheatreWorks in 2002 to a three-year run on Broadway, a 19-month national tour, and an extended run in London’s West End. Loosely based on the life of one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s, \u003cem>Memphis\u003c/em> won four Tonys in 2010, including one for Best Musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13206784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13206784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley with the composer of \"Memphis\" and Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan at the Broadway opening night, October 19, 2009.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25338_David-Bryan-Robert-Kelley_Memphis-Broadway-Opening_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley with the composer of “Memphis” and Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan at the Broadway opening night, October 19, 2009. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelley also cast dozens of young actors who went on to major careers on Broadway and in Hollywood. These include Jessica Chastain (\u003cem>Zero Dark Thirty, The Martian, The Help\u003c/em>), James Monroe Iglehart (\u003cem>Aladdin, Hamilton\u003c/em>), Daveed Diggs (\u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em>), Colman Domingo (\u003cem>The Scottsboro Boys, Selma\u003c/em>), Željko Ivanek (\u003cem>Damages, \u003c/em>\u003cem>Madam Secretary)\u003c/em>, and Francis Jue (\u003cem>Yellow Face, \u003c/em>\u003cem>Madam Secretary).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love working with other artists and collaborating with people from all over the country,” Kelley says. “We’ve really found that a lot of people who’ve come here are eager to come back.” Iglehart and Jue are among those who’ve returned to TheatreWorks over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its New Works Festival and Writers’ Retreat, TheatreWorks has also helped foster some major writing talents, including Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Joe DiPietro and Beth Henley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13207859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13207859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"As artistic director of TheatreWorks, Robert Kelley has programmed a diverse roster of original dramas and musicals. Brad Erickson, head of the Theatre Bay Area, says Kelley's programming draws in audiences, "but also stretches them."\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-1920x1082.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-1180x665.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/RS25337_Robert-Kelley5_TheatreWorks-Silicon-Valley-2-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As artistic director of TheatreWorks, Robert Kelley has programmed a diverse roster of original dramas and musicals. Brad Erickson, head of the Theatre Bay Area, says Kelley’s programming draws in audiences, “but also stretches them.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was so passionate and committed to the community from the get-go,” says Carey Perloff, who is stepping down from her role as longtime artistic director of ACT at the end of next season. “It’s an audience with such an appetite for adventure. So that tells you who’s here, and how hungry they are. 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