Two nights in a row at SF Opera !!!

The touring cast of "Stereophonic" wasn't going to perform in the Bay Area without visiting the Sausalito studio where their show is set — and where Fleetwood Mac recorded "Rumours." On Monday, 2025 met 1976 in a totally surreal, beautifully fluid way. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

It's not every opening night that gets interrupted by a fire alarm. On Actors' Reading Collective's "Mary Jane": www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

This one didn’t work for me, but I hope it finds its audience. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Belatedly catching some TheatreWorks!

I love plays about great big horrible family secrets. On "The Hills of California" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

in my heart I know that Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to play Zohran Mamdani on SNL so bad it physically hurts him

As a former wannabe Andrews Sister myself, I am jazzed for Berkeley Rep’s latest!

Very grateful to have experienced this work of theater by these artists. On Marin Theatre's "Sally & Tom," which shows how art can set free: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Big night at Marin Theatre! My feature on the show at the link in bio.

We don’t often get to see Broadway tours like this one. On “Stereophonic”: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Finally!

Eight years ago, the play "Thomas and Sally," about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, upended the Bay Area theater community. Now the same theater is mounting a very different play about those same two characters. Can it help us heal? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

No offense to my brother, but this play made me wish I had a sister. Yes, Sosan and Nadia are ruthless with each other, but still. On Golden Thread Productions and Z Space's latest: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

In the round at Z Space for Golden Thread !

I needed to see this show. Maybe you do, too. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

How do you look as good as Fleetwood Mac when you have only a few weeks to rehearse? On the touring cast of "Stereophonic," in BroadwaySF and ACT performances beginning next week! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

In January Berkeley Rep unveiled artwork for "The The Thing About Jellyfish" with an AI credit. Since then I've talked to artists and designers who love it as a tool, who use it as a spur, who loathe it as a threat. Also: How do they even use it? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

So much better than Sweet James!

Legend. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

The journalist Ida B. Wells is a character in "Suffs," and she has descendants — one of whom lives in the Bay Area. I got to talk to two of her heirs about what it was like to grow up with her legacy and crusading for justice in their own ways, on their own terms. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

For any Bay Area theater fans reading “Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist,” Daniel Pollack-Pelzner has planted a jaw-dropping Easter egg. My marginalia? OFF THE CHARTS. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

It's pretty badass to still be writing plays at 87. On Ishmael Reed, the vile Disney movie "Song of the South" and Reed's new play “The Amanuensis,” now in a staged reading: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I knew there would be contemporary parallels, but I don't think I anticipated quite so many. Theatre Lunatico's show is required viewing for every AI proponent or apologist. The rest of us can just savor those scrumptious Gothic thrills this Halloween. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Tell the aspiring arts journalists in your life: the Chronicle is hiring a Datebook intern for next summer! Application deadline: Nov. 3. eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I love shows that clean me out and hang me out to dry. On Word for Word: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I am READY for some Word for Word at Z Space!

Most potent rendition of "I'm Going Home" from "Rocky Horror" I will ever see in my life. On SF Oasis and Ray of Light Theatre's latest as Oasis' long goodbye begins. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I'm that weird person who rewatched "Gilmore Girls" in anticipation of its 25th anniversary this week, curious about its secret sauce and why it still means so much to so many. Herein are a theory or two. What are yours, fellow fans? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

"This exists in San Francisco?" That will be your mantra on the city's new perimeter trail — a path filled with good dogs, great sandwiches, art everywhere, and a reassuring number of public restrooms. I covered it all by bike. Here are the highlights: 🚴‍♀️ 🌁 ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Terrific, complex piece by @jasonzinoman.bsky.social about the Riyadh Comedy Festival: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/a...

In case it's not obvious, my time working at NCTC made me revere Ed Decker, and now that he's retiring, he's picked a wonderful successor. 45 years in, the company's in great hands. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Happening TONIGHT: Worried about the state of Bay Area theater? Wondering where the bright spots are, and if they're replicable? Join panelists Ted Russell, Susi Damilano and Jonathan Spector and me at Manny's for a discussion about our sector's future: www.sfchronicle.com/events/artic...

When a Bay Area theater does their season announcement, that means I get to have my annual chat with its artistic director, and who's more fun to talk to than Patrick Dooley, that salty sea captain at the helm of Shotgun Players? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Over the past few months, I've gotten to know 20-year-old BART busker @markpdyson.bsky.social after he posted on Reddit that tips from passengers saved him from homelessness. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Kamala Harris is coming to the Masonic on Sunday to discuss her campaign memoir "107 Days," and here's what it felt like to read it. My review of a book that mixes cringey résumé-brandishing with legit insight: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I don't use words like "dazzling" lightly. But as I was in the audience for @sfplayhouse.org's latest, I genuinely thought, "I am dazzled." On "Noises Off": www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Pondering what keeps us coming back to Louisa May Alcott and how stage chemistry works. On “Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women” at TheatreWorks: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Getting to TheatreWorks for “Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women” via Tunitas Creek Road. I like to think Jo March would approve.

Since “Les Mis” keeps making headlines, it felt like a good time to revisit the show and ask: Why does it hold special appeal to Trump? My theories herein; what are yours? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I have long been wondering what it would be like if I took an acting class again after [redacted] years, and this story taught me that I am NOT READY! But I *am* ready for "Hexed" by Terror Vault! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Today's must-read: Tony Bravo's story on Heklina's closet: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Little-known musical. We’ll see if it catches on!

Ins Choi is such a star! 🤩 On "Kim's Convenience" at American Conservatory Theater: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

A beautiful sunset for an ACT opening night!

Always love seeing a Christopher Chen play — even when it still needs work. On Shotgun's latest: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I got to tag along with the great Tasi Alabastro as he shot photos for an American Conservatory Theater exhibit highlighting some of San Francisco’s immigrant small business owners. What a fabulous community engagement idea for “Kim’s Convenience”: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I would like to live inside Ray Oppenheimer’s lighting design for Crowded Fire's latest, please! On "Limp Wrist on the Lever": www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I love living in a region where I can see the debauched indulgence of Vau de Vire Society on Friday, then the crystalline moral debate of "Dead Man Walking" on Sunday. On Jake Heggie & Terrence McNally's opera — your girl's first @sfopera.bsky.social review! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

First @sfopera.bsky.social review! Wish me luck!