Drama Talk & Drinks: The Color Purple –“Sing like a dream”
Ever since we saw the 2016 Tony Award performances of The Color Purple cast we’ve wanted to see this show. From the heart wrenching plot, to the big gospel voices, to Oprah’s love, we were excited to...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: The Humans –“People are going to be dissecting this play”
We have been hearing a lot about The Humans since it won 4 Tony Awards back in 2016 and were very excited to hear it was coming to SF. Unfortunately, it’s at a time when Brittany is out of town, but...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: A Walk On The Moon –“I just didn’t feel the gravity of...
I’m one of those people who have not seen the 1999 film A Walk On The Moon, but jumped at the opportunity to see it as a world premiere musical at the American Conservatory Theater. So I grabbed my...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: On Your Feet! –“walked out on a high note”
I was a huge Emilio and Gloria Estefan fan growing up so of course when I heard their musical On Your Feet! was coming to town it was a must see for me. Also, the Golden Gate theater was shut down for...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: Men On Boats –“It looked so cool when they were going...
I knew when I heard about Men On Boats, a play described as “Spinning historical, theatrical, and gender conventions on their heads, this subversive tale of 10 men, four boats, and two rivers contains...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: Shout-out
As big fans of Crowded Fire Theater we were really excited to hear about their collaboration with AXIS Dance Company, Star Finch, and Ensemble Mik Nawooj to create a new immersive multidisciplinary...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: Cirque Du Soleil’s Volta –“I was mesmerized”
I haven’t seen a Cirque Du Soleil show in about 9 years and Garrett had never seen one. So this year I knew we needed to check out Volta. So off we went to the parking lot of AT&T Park to see what...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: A Bronx Tale –“this kind of show is polarizing”
Since Brittany hasn’t been able to go to shows with me lately, I needed an extremely well versed theater-goer to attend the next one. I immediately asked my Uncle Louis, who, along with my aunt, were...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: The People’s History of Next –“about everything and...
I recently ran into an old friend who told me about TheatreFIRST, a theatre company in Berkeley that is “an art-as-activism organization investigating new models of equitable representation through our...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: When the Puppets Were Having Sex…
For this DT&D we’re handing it back over to our original poster, Ariel! He and is mom checked out NCTC’s Avenue Q! Hi! I’m Ariel and I used to post here. I’m stepping out of my Mission Mission...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: Come From Away –“I did feel the love”
I had some family who saw Come From Away on Broadway and loved it. So I was really excited that it was coming to town. I was intrigued to see how the true story of 7,000 passengers stranded on a...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: Hamilton –“I never wanted it to end”
I can’t remember a musical phenomenon bigger than Hamilton: An American Musical. I know people of all ages and backgrounds who love this musical, while still claiming they are not “theater people”....
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: Shout-out
We’re finally getting back to the theater! Excited to see Faultline Theater’s Caveman Play tonight! When I read the description that: “when you arrive, you will enter into a cave. In a cave, there are...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: Inked Baby –“needles and the thought of giving birth”
I’m always excited when a night out is at Crowded Fire Theater. I find that the shows they produce always leave me moved to thought. Seeing the west coast premiere of Inked Baby was no different. Photo...
View ArticleCORRUPTED: Drama Talk & Drinks: Timon of Athens –“smoking a crack-pipe”
Despite being fancy theater critics, neither of us had ever seen Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. So when we heard that The Cutting Ball Theater was doing a production of “one of Shakespeare’s...
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