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Hairspray
What more could one ask from one momentous, good-time evening of live theatre than San Francisco Playhouse’s “Hairspray,” sure to be this summer’s biggest ‘must-see’ in San Francisco.
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Ride the Cyclone
Wild, weird, wacky, and most of all, wonderful are just some of the descriptors for City Lights Theatre Company’s summer-time offering of “Ride the Cyclone,” sure to be a sell-out hit for the next several weeks.
La Rondine
With a cast of fabulous actors whose radiant, rich voices elicit our gasps of delight, moments of laughter, and expressions of tears, Pocket Opera in a co-production with Mercury Theatre presents a gripping, gorgeous, and grand “La Rondine” in a chamber setting intimate and immediate between performers and audience.
The Employee Dharma Handbook
With a keen eye for perfectly timed pacing of multiple scenes packed with increasing tensions and conflicts — those of discrimination, class, relationship, family, and personal identity (not to mention also IPO or no-IPO) — Snehal Desai deftly directs Geetha Reddy’s “The Employee Dharma Handbook” as the opening production of TheatreWorks fifty-sixth season.
Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri
W.S. Gilbert (libretto) and Arthur Sullivan’s (music) satire of the English’s male-dominated society and government– the operetta “Iolanthe or The Peer and the Peri” — is now in a fantastically imaginative and altogether hilarious production at the ODC Theatre by the City’s much esteemed for seventy-four years company, Lamplighters Music Theatre.
SCABMUGGERS
Even though as a new play it still needs some tightening and adjusting, The Freight’s SCABMUGGERS by Yvonne Martinez leaves lasting impressions through some powerful performances and a script that both moves and educates its audience.
