537 stories by "Lily Janiak"
Octavio Solis' reverse-migration sequel to John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" feels as overladen as the Joad family jalopy.
The Mission District theater is facing a perfect storm of increased costs from insurance, utilities, payroll and more.
The destruction of Pittsburg Theatre Company's warehouse hasn't stopped the company from opening "The Sunshine Boys" on Friday, June 14.
'Mother Road,' a sequel of sorts to John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath,' imagines a latter-day reverse migration for Joad family descendants.
Playwright Naomi Iizuka constructs exquisite clockworks over and over again in her Magic Theatre and Campo Santo world premiere set on the island of Borneo.
At BroadwaySF, Marianne Elliott's take on George Furth and Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical about singledom versus marriage bursts with ripe, juicy fruits.
For all its heft, Stefano Massini's play about the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers is a marvel of poetic restraint.
Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical is relevant whenever nationalism, groupthink and racial othering are on the rise, which seems to be always.Â
"Best Available" centers on a fictional theater's behind-the-scenes hiring process, and the script might make audiences wonder if they're complicit.
Mountain Play, Santa Cruz Shakespeare and Circus Bella invite audiences to enjoy a live performance and eat a picnic, too.
"Swept Away," featuring music by folk rock band the Avett Brothers, was among the first big theatrical projects to premiere in the Bay Area after the pandemic's worst days.
The high concept of "A Kind of Knowing" is the modus operandi of the 22-year-old Santa Rosa troupe.
Performances, including by four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza in the title role, only partially redeem the world-premiere musical.
Director Jeffrey Lo reveals Tennessee Williams' 1944 masterpiece as a wide, ripe canvas.
Kassandra Production's "The Soul Catcher" might make you start to rethink the relationships in your own life.
Shana Carroll, of the 7 Fingers and "Dear San Francisco" at Club Fugazi, spoke to the Chronicle about her Tony nod for choreographing "Water for Elephants" on Broadway.
In Amelio Garcia's play, inspired by Anne Carson's verse novel, actor Romeo Chandler is a live wire who might spark trifles and slights or wisdom and poetry.
Walking Cinema's "The Fillmore Eclipse" is set in a 1950s jazz joint the night before its bulldozing.
Michael R. Jackson's West Coast premiere at the Toni Rembe Theater in San Francisco summons the gods of lighting, music, set design and costume.
Witnessing Ghassan Kanafani's 1969 barn burner onstage is like discovering a midcentury classic.
In Torange Yeghizaran's world premiere, three characters fill the playing space to bursting.
Mike Lew's comedy at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is balm for any thwarted adult who's ever fantasized, "I'm gonna yell at my mom like a white girl."Â
Pieces such as S.F. Ballet's 'Mere Mortals' help us understand our place in the ChatGPT era.
San Jose Stage Company's West Coast premiere about an English hangman forced into early retirement trades moralizing for high style.
The S.F. native's solo show at American Conservatory Theater tells the true story of how a strawberry red Hello Kitty sewing machine started a mutual aid society.
