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Drama Talk & Drinks: The King and I –“If Rodgers and Hammerstein are your jam…”
After a week of post-election depression we decided to see if some Broadway magic could brighten our outlook on life. Hamilton had been our post-election playlist, but since that’s not coming to SF...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: The Golden Girls –“yay, for mindless television”
It’s holiday time again, which means it’s time for Golden Girls the Christmas Episodes! Since this was our 3rd year attending (we saw the 2013 and 2015 shows and loved them too) we thought it would be...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Next Time Let’s Take the Stairs –“All these strange...
“Darkly comic theater that moves” is how local performance company 13th Floor describes itself. We’re always up to see inventive original San Francisco theater, so when we saw the press release for...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: The Speakeasy –“appreciate where you are in the moment”
For those of you who missed the The Speakeasy the first time around, it’s an immersive play set in prohibition-era San Francisco. It had a sell out run in the TL in 2014. After losing their space, they...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Pre-Show Talk with soon-to-be Bay Area celebrity kid-...
San Francisco is often referred to as Neverland. It makes sense then, that a kid that grows up in the Bay Area would be a perfect cast-member for the first tour of Finding Neverland, a Broadway hit...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Finding Neverland –“business as usual”
Do you remember the 2004 award winning film with Johnny Depp called Finding Neverland? It’s about the playwright, J. M. Barrie, and the story of writing the original play Peter Pan. We really like the...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Hedda Gabler –“Total girl crush”
Now seems like an important time to revisit critiques of a traditional women’s role in society. So when we heard that Hedda Gabler (the classic Ibsen play about the iconic female protagonist, Hedda...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Fun Home –“The real mixed in with the magical.”
If you follow theater in San Francisco you probably heard about the grand-reopening of the Curran Theater last week, following two years of extensive renovations (creating both more bars and more...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: An Interview with Thrillpeddlers Founder and Director on...
The DT&D team has a soft spot for local San Francisco theater. We love the quirky, innovative, and rule-breaking companies that make our theater scene unique. So when we heard that the Hypnodrome,...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Rent –“there were a lot of “rent-heads” in the audience.”
We can’t believe it’s been 20 years since Rent became a thing, and it became a BIG thing. Your DT&D columnists were definitely both Rent-heads and obsessed with Rent in high school. We were so...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Where All Good Rabbits Go –“An actual fucking rabbit”
DT&D always likes the work that local theatre company FaultLine Theater produces (past reviews here, here and here). They do a great job finding intriguing new works and bringing them to life. So...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Into the Woods –“Voices like velvet butter”
Stephen Sondheim’s dark take on classic fairy-tales, Into the Woods, has always been a favorite of your DT&D critics. We saw it when we were kids. We obsessively listened to the soundtrack in high...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: You For Me For You –“The craziness of North Korea”
Crowded Fire Theater company has been on fire recently with their bold productions of innovative new works. When we heard they had a new show opening, in their recently renovated space, we knew we...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Hamilton –“Screaming with joy”
Being a DT&D columnist has its perks. A recent one was scoring tickets to opening night of the national tour of Hamilton, now playing at SHN’s Orpheum Theater. Katie was out of town, so Brittany...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: The Encounter –“like nothing I have ever seen.”
Ever since the Curran’s grand-reopening earlier this year, the theater has been bringing some serious theater game, living up to their mission of “presenting bold, daring work”. Their latest show, The...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Phèdre –“where the hell did she come from!”
We’ve been loving Cutting Ball Theater recently and their “radical re-visionings of classic works”. When we found out they had a new production of Phèdre, the classic Greek tragedy about the perils of...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: How to be a White Man –“They had me with the title”
Can the idea of ‘fake it til’ you make it’ work for white male privilege? If you just act like a bro, no matter your race, sexual orientation, or gender identity, can you get a free pass when you act...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time –“Wow”
It’s rare that plays on Broadway get as much buzz as the blockbuster musicals. The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-Time is the exception to that rule. Winner of five Tony Awards in 2015,...
View ArticleDrama Talk & Drinks: WATCH – Taylor Mac Singing All Over San Francisco
Taylor Mac is coming back! We saw Taylor Mac’s A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC last year and loved it! We also loved seeing SF take a staring role in this new music video of Taylor Mac singing...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: A Night at the Palace “just come and enjoy the show and...
The Speakeasy has added a new show on Friday nights that “welcomes audiences to the immersive, Prohibition-era world of The Speakeasy with a mix of lighthearted cabaret acts and interactive scenes.”...
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