Your girl's in theater heaven. A day after "All My Sons" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, I am still unclenching and trying to exhale! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

CANNOT WAIT!!!! @berkeleyrep

Over the moon to share that Harry Davis' "Push/Pull," produced by Central Works Theater, has won the Will Glickman Award for the best play to premiere in the Bay Area in 2025. Not bad for a playwright's first professionally produced script! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

The Chronicle's little man is leaping — not just because of joy, but also because he's just that frightened! On "Paranormal Activity" at American Conservatory Theater: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

What an auspicious lineup! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Dave Eggers' "The Eyes & The Impossible," set in Golden Gate Park, is so completely charming, and now the inventive minds of Word for Word are bringing it to the stage as part of a new program for kids and families: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

There is a rare chance to see "Madame Butterfly" and "M. Butterfly" back to back right now, and if you also take it, I'd love to know what you think! On San Francisco Playhouse and Pocket Opera's latests: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

SF Playhouse!!

It was such a treat to watch Jimmy Smits, Wanda De Jesús and the whole cast in rehearsal at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and I tried to play it cool during the interview. I am so excited for "All My Sons"! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Sometimes you get to see your heros live! Annie Rauwerda, of @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social fame, is just as delightful in person as she is on social media. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

On Lamplighters Music Theatre's spring cancellation — and how it's taking steps to avoid such moves in the future. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Let me be clear: I love love stories, and I have been known to read trashy romance novels to unwind. But not this one. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

My sleeves are machine-washable, thank goodness.

RIP, James Van Der Beek, and thanks for making high school look so aspirational. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

What a team! Can't wait to see this at Berkeley Repertory Theatre next year! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Before each performance of "Dear San Francisco" at Club Fugazi, audience members are asked to write valentines to the city. The show has now collected 60,000 such postcards. I read (some of) them. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

On Yosimar Reyes, who's Santa Clara County's first undocumented poet laureate — and the playwright of a world premiere with Teatro Visión. Has anyone ever loved his abuela as much as he does?! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Macbeth: SHIT

My fave reactions to the Dunkin' ad: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

About to speak at my grad school alma mater! Afraid it’s holding up better than I am.

Oh my god: not only did the pandemic kill my "Cyrano" production at Cutting Ball & then the theater itself, now its website has been taken over by AI gibberish and if you google "Cyrano Cutting Ball" you get THIS: cuttingball.com/play/cyrano-...

This is just a weird one — and then a sad one. I guess it was inevitable that things like this would start happening? But my unimaginative little noggin just hadn't pictured it. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

This one really came together in act two! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Now updated with comment from Nathan Wolfe.

“As a storyteller primarily of heroines, I am nauseated to have even the most remote and incidental association with this awful predator,” Gunderson wrote. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Ah, season announcement season — when the calendar hums with possibility! And TheatreWorks Silicon Valley always starts us off. Here's its 2026-27 lineup! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Here's another big shakeup in SF arts leadership! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

When I saw that Catherine O'Hara died, I couldn't believe how many scenes of hers I instantly remembered verbatim. Thank you for being a surrogate mom to me, Tony Bravo and a whole generation of millennials: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

This new solo show is so promising! What vocal range! What insight! What self-deprecating humor! I already want a spinoff on the cellmate character. On Berkeley Repertory Theatre's latest: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

The parents I talked to were thrilled. The teachers were amazing. More of this, please! On Parents' Play Date, the free theater workshops Palo Alto Players are hosting for kids while their parents see a matinee: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Yay Berkeley Rep !

Fingers crossed that this works out! On TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s (hopefully) next venue: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

The merger of San Francisco's three municipal arts agencies took a big step forward this morning with the posting of a job description for our first executive director of arts and culture, which will oversee GFTA, the SFAC and the SF Film Commission: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

New name, evolving game. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

The list grows. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

My fellow classics fans, this is one to go see. Seriously, at intermission I was like, wait, there's a rest-of-the-world outside this play?! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Seated ONSTAGE at American Conservatory Theater!!!

This is such a sad state of affairs, and my pollyannaish self hopes that everyone's love of CounterPulse will eventually see it through. On layoffs, dire finances and a revolving door of leadership at a beloved Tenderloin company: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

This is not a drill! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

A North Bay trip with @briancoyne.bsky.social: Day 1: Santa Rosa ➡️ Geyserville via Fitch Mountain, Cloverdale and the Geysers, 75 miles Day 2: Geyserville ➡️ Winters via Jimtown, Calistoga, St. Helena and Lake Berryessa, 78 miles Day 3: Winters ➡️ Vallejo via Pleasants Valley and Cantelow, 49 miles

I'd really love to see what new satirical musical the "South Park" creators might come up with in 2026. For now, on "The Book of Mormon": www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I don't usually write about dance, but with San Francisco Ballet's gala, I had thoughts! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

"On Day One, Matthew asks our group a very simple question: What is something you’d like the group to know about you that might not be visible to them?" www.americantheatre.org/2026/01/05/f...

“Director Susi Damilano shows how attending theater can be as grounding and clarifying as going for a walk in the forest and taking a deep breath.” So glad I very belatedly caught “Into the Woods” at San Francisco Playhouse! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

When Tony, Joy and I first started reporting this timeline of SF Oasis' history, back in October, we thought counting down to NYE would be a way to say goodbye. But sometimes your wildest dreams come true, and you get to reframe a sad story into a happy one. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Earlier this year, S.F. actor Radhika Rao told me she was getting theater work from an usual source: an AI company. That made me wonder: How else could theater artists (and other artists!) work inside an industry that often seems hostile to ours? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Us, too, inflatable man. Us, too.

My mind is BLOWN. The Curran has a new owner, and it's... the San Francisco Giants?!?!? As a theater critic, I never thought I'd be texting with the owner of an MLB team, but there you go! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

The former leader of Berkeley's Aurora Theatre is now running — wait for it! — a movie theater! The transition comes as both art forms, for all their differences, share a struggle: getting butts in seats. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...