SF Playhouse’s ‘The Fit’ forces its point
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Even though the characters risk nearly everything to get ahead at work, the stakes are never truly established nor explored for most of them.
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American Conservatory Theater’s ‘Sweat’ delivers fearless interpretation of working-class America
On Wednesday, the American Conservatory Theater presented Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Sweat” at the Geary Theater in San Francisco. The play explored both the intimate experiences and crippling dilemmas of the blue-collar steel mill workers in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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American Conservatory Theater’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ is much-needed story that earns right to the stage
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” premiered last year at the American Conservatory Theater — and returns to the theater for a limited two-week run through July 29.
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In conversation with actor Emily Brown: Navigating the stage in a time of representation
The role that lightning-struck Brown was that of Maria in a production of “West Side Story” her senior year of high school.
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Qui Nguyen’s ‘Vietgone’ raps through Vietnam War, universality of Asian American experiences
Jaime Castañeda’s rendition of “Vietgone” reminds us that wars are not fought by political ideologies but by mothers and fathers, siblings and children.
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To continue performing Shakespeare or to not? ACT’s ‘Hamlet’ argues the former
The plot is multi-faceted to say the least (pirates makes a brief appearance), but the central conflict is Hamlet’s descent into paranoia.
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‘A Christmas Carol’ adaptation is reliable holiday charm
It is a testament to both the staying power of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale and to the persistent bad behavior of capitalists that “A Christmas Carol” is as relevant as ever. In an apocalyptic mess of a year like 2016, every work of art is peddling its own timeliness
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‘The Normal Heart’ at ACT stimulates emotionally, politically
The play opens in a hospital waiting room. The setting is 1981 New York City. A strange new disease has begun to spread within the city’s gay community. Forty-one cases have been reported. One by one, young and healthy men are dying, but no one knows the cause. The symptoms
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American Conservatory Theater’s Samuel Beckett showcase intrigues
American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco is paying homage to modernist master Samuel Beckett. In a single bill, the A.C.T. has joined “Play,” one of Beckett’s rarely performed one-acts, with “Endgame,” Beckett’s 1957 work written in the absurdist style. “Play” is Beckett’s illustration of a love triangle, drawn using minimal
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This Week in Arts
Film Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” (1989) is not a movie that calls for popcorn, not only because of its twisted antics — running the gamut of blood, shit and piss — but because it is a bold, serious film. Michael Gambon plays Albert
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