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Onstage

Drama Masks: No time to be nice

'La Bohème' proves its supremacy in welcoming newcomers to opera's bombast, 'Co-founders' tries to play it both ways.
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At Fresh Meat queer arts fest, ‘conformity isn’t an option’

Mudd the Two Spirit, more brilliant performers continue to lay annual showcase's transformative groundwork.
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Drama Masks: Sex-positive seniors provide welcome relief in ‘Happy Pleasant Valley’

Plus: Sasha Velour's homophobe-enraging spectacular and Neil Diamond's Broadway homage.
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Drama Masks: Gotta give ’em hope

Stars of 'Harvey Milk Imagined' shine amid take too tragic for Pride month, 'Pacific Overtures' tries to resuscitate a challenging Sondheim.
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‘Co-Founders’ taps into universal hustle, from Silicon Valley to Vallejo

Emily Wilson -
A co-sign from E-40 and real-world tech experience power a surprising musical at ACT.
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Arts + Culture

Conquering funding travails, tricky chords, Sondheim’s ‘Pacific Overtures’ returns

Emily Wilson -
Director Nick Ishimaru and crew determined to bring play's surprising blend of cultures back to the Bay.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: ‘Parade’ and its mob justice feel too close for comfort

Charles Lewis III -
Harold Prince's tale of a hapless Brooklyn Jew in Georgia pulls the thread of prejudice left to fester.
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Performance

Sasha Velour’s ‘Big Reveal’? Upcoming Berkeley run is her hometown debut

Joshua Rotter -
Bay-born drag star holds nothing back in show that drips with queer resilience.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Who is to blame for that?

Charles Lewis III -
'To My Girls' strips away a Millennial's gay-tastic getaway, while 'Yellow Face' dives into thorny racial casting itself.
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Dance

AXIS Dance Company and Dr. Catie Cuan on the high-tech art of ‘choreorobotics’

Aimée Ts'ao -
Will it take a dancer to improve our relationship with machines?
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Aurora Theatre suspends season—after putting on a hell of a show

Charles Lewis III -
'Crumbs from the Table of Joy' delivers, as does Berkeley Rep's 'the aves' and 'Compton's Cafeteria Riot.'
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: All ABBA the myths of stage critics

Charles Lewis III -
'Mamma Mia!' does its crowd-pleasing thing, while 'Ironbound' goes deep with carefully textured take on houselessness.
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Arts + Culture

Bay Area arts organizations reel, vow to survive NEA grant cancellations

Caitlin Donohue -
Agency's new 'priorities' include supporting communities of color, despite defunding BIPOC-led organizations.
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Performance

Eight years in, Oaklash is setting the inclusive drag festival standard

Daniel Sanchez-Torres -
Curtain rises on queered classical violin, public art installations—and even a 'Drag Race' winner.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: The fight is just beginning

Charles Lewis III -
SF Mime Troupe needs our help. Plus: 'Simple Mexican Pleasures,' 'The Last of the Love Letters,' 'Shameless Hussy' reviewed.
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Onstage

An interstellar drag quest to save the galaxy (and you call the shots)

Marke B. -
Media Meltdown's 'Select Thine Own Journey... in Space!' melds love of Dungeons & Dragons, '90s YA lit, and campy cosmic flicks.
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Onstage

From a Pedro Pascal prompt, ‘The Last of the Love Letters’

Emily Wilson -
Ngozi Anyanwu's play at Z Below was written in a fervor after the actor prodded her with a playbill and a lack of 'insane' roles.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: ‘Two Trains Running’ is an electrifying triumph

Charles Lewis III -
August Wilson's dialog drives an epic critique of Black capitalism at ACT. Plus: Hilarious heathens of Killing My Lobster go all in for sin.
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Dance

A Smuin season shaped by DJ playlists, sexy sculpture, drag queen fame

Aimée Ts'ao -
The SF company returns, enlisting the talents of Auguste Rodin, the Partridge Family, Queen, and Lady Camden.
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