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Theater Review: PLAID TIDINGS (Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs)
PLAIDS, CAROLS & COMIC CHAOS A tuneful Yule celebration filled with charm, harmony, and holiday silliness If you’re craving holiday nostalgia served with tight four-part harmonies and a side of goofy, good-hearted comedy, Plaid Tidings at Revolution Stage Company should be on your December shortlist. Stuart Ross’s follow-up to his wildly popular 1989 revue Forever…
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Theater Review: THE GOLDEN GIRLS LIVE: THE CHRISTMAS EPISODES (Curran Theatre)
THANK YOU FOR BEING A QUEEN Four drag icons, two episodes, and twenty years of perfectly timed shade Now celebrating its 20th consecutive year, The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes has become one of San Francisco’s most reliable holiday traditions. This drag reinvention of classic sitcom episodes is now a full-scale theatrical event. The…
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Theater Review: CHILDREN OF THE WINTER KINGDOM — A BONKERS HOLIDAY FANTASY (Actors’ Gang in Culver City)
A HOLIDAY PANTO THAT KNOWS WHAT IT’S DOING The Actors’ Gang offers a family-friendly fairy tale with teeth Children of the Winter Kingdom – The Bonkers Adventures of Holly and Spruce, now frolicking at The Actors’ Gang in Culver City, is reminiscent of the beloved British Christmas pantomimes. The family-friendly show is festive and song-filled,…
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Theater Review: MOULIN ROUGE (2025 Touring Production)
TRUTH, BEAUTY, FREEDOM, LOVE — MOULIN ROUGE! LIGHTS UP THE DESERT A pop-fueled fever dream lands at McCallum Theatre Moulin Rouge! The Musical took the stage of McCallum Theatre in all its splendor on Tuesday night, where it runs through December 14. I first saw this tour when it launched in 2022, and it was…
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Theater Review: 89 CARSON JUNCTION ROAD (Compulsion Dance & Theater at Diversionary Theatre)
THE SOUP OF THE DAY IS A DARK BROTH INDEED There’s a game some couples play when they’re out and about: they make up lives about the strangers they see in places like diners. Part of what makes it work is that they’re never actually going to know a thing about those people. Until playwright/director…
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Opera Review: THE MONKEY KING (World Premiere by San Francisco Opera)
THE MONKEY KING LANDS WITH A ROAR A dazzling, design-driven premiere expands what opera can be Every now and then an opera house unveils something that doesn’t just premiere — it shifts the whole conversation about what new opera might be. San Francisco Opera’s The Monkey King is exactly that kind of event: vibrant, imaginative,…
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Theater Review: PETER PAN (Panto in the Presidio)
HOOK, LINE & SEQUINER Presidio’s Peter Pan Panto soars on camp, color, chaos, Christmas cheer, and unapologetic silliness ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ This holiday season, the Presidio Theatre brings back its beloved Panto in the Presidio for a fifth year — that joyful British pantomime tradition where audiences shout…
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Theater Review: INTO THE WOODS (SF Playhouse)
STILL CASTING ITS SPELL Sondheim and Lapine’s fractured fairytales find fresh magic at San Francisco Playhouse Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods may be one of the most beloved titles in the modern musical-theatre canon, but San Francisco Playhouse’s holiday-season staging makes a strong case for why it keeps earning its place. From…
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Theater Review: DOG SEES GOD (The Bent)
A DARKER LOOK AT THE GANG WE GREW UP WITH Dog Sees God, Bert V. Royal’s 2004 reimagining of the Peanuts universe, wonders what might happen if those familiar childhood figures stumbled into late high school. The answer is a swirl of drugs, profanity, identity crises, and more than a little homophobia. Though the script…
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Theater Review: DIE HEART: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT (Troubadour Theater Company at The Colony)
TAKE THAT, NAKATOMI The Troubies blow up Die Hard, Heart-style — and it’s pure holiday mayhem The Troubadour Theater Company — the Troubies — has been wreaking musical-comedy havoc around Los Angeles since 1995, and their latest spoof, Die Heart: The Director’s Cut, might be the most gloriously unhinged holiday offering they’ve detonated yet. Their…
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