Arts & Entertainment

‘Speakeasy’ wonderfully whisks guests to SF’s Prohibition era  

By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | April 25, 2024

Part immersive theater, part time-traveling escape-from-reality event, and musically retro in the best way.

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At ACT, funny Kristina Wong sews her way to fame during COVID 

By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | April 9, 2024

The hilarious, incisive "Sweatshop Overlord" was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

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World premiere of play about Betty Reid Soskin’s amazing life

By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | April 1, 2024

“Sign My Name to Freedom" was commissioned by San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company.

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‘Far Country’ an affecting look at Chinese immigrants on Angel Island  

By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | March 14, 2024

Berkeley Rep's production of Lloyd's Suh's play is poignant, painful, and gently comic.

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Research on bees, complex dynamics fuel the entrancing ‘Queen’  

By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | March 11, 2024

Complex scientific issues meet tangled emotional relationships in this stellar production by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.

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Great actors make great villains in Central Works’ ‘Boss McGreedy’

By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | March 5, 2024

Fine actors at their best in a tale that stokes the audience's schadenfreude.

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Family chaos in Berkeley Rep’s riveting ‘Cult of Love’  

By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | February 1, 2024

A three-act look at one family’s spectacularly emotional meltdown.