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Drama Talk & Drinks: SF Mime Troupe’s “Walls”– This play pissed off Breitbart
We know we are in the middle of summer when we get the notification for a San Francisco Mime Troupe show. We look forward to it every summer. We were extra excited to find out that they are celebrating...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: An American In Paris –“who is this musical for?”
We have kicked off the Fall theater season with seeing the Tony Award winning musical, An American In Paris at SHN’s Orpheum Theatre. It’s a musical inspired by the 1951 film, which is full of George...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Taylor Mac A 24-Decade History of Popular Music –“WOW”
Ever since we got to see Taylor Mac perform a portion of A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at Curran Under-Construction we couldn’t wait for the full show to come back. Last Friday the wait finally...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: A Tale of Autumn –“A long philosophy lesson”
Bay Area Obie award-winning playwright Christopher Chen‘s latest work, A Tale of Autumn, just had its’ world premiere at Potrero Stage. One of DT&D favorite theater companies, Crowded Fire Theater,...
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Drama Talk & Drinks on BFF.fm Roll Over Easy
Yesterday Drama Talk & Drinks sat down for coffee with our friends on the Roll Over Easy show on BFF.fm to talk about the theater scene in SF. What’s Roll Over Easy you ask?: Roll Over Easy is a...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: The Mineola Twins –“Ridiculously relevant”
Fall theater season is upon us, which means lots of great new shows to see around the Bay Area. Cutting Ball Theater’s first show of their 17/18 season just opened at the Exit Theater on Taylor. The...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Role Call –“Am I supposed to be impressed with how...
We have never seen a show from the company FoolsFURY so we were excited to learn about their new show Role Call, which is comprised of two new one-woman shows by local theater artists. The first piece...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Ain’t Misbehavin’ –“trying to do things the old-school way”
Sometimes when things are feeling bleak, and it smells like the world is burning down around you, it’s nice to escape into something light, fun, and maybe a little mindless. While cat videos are always...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Disney’s Aladdin –“All flash and no substance.”
A Disney caravan rolled into town this week, with the opening of the Broadway tour of Aladdin at SHN’s Orpheum Theater. It’s a favorite childhood movie for both of your DT&D columnists, so we...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Totes Blessed –“we’re kinda ‘basic bitches’”
It’s good to to be able to laugh at ourselves, especially our #bestlife Instagram personas. Which is what drew us to Totes Blessed the new sketch show by Chardonnay Comedy now playing at PianoFight....
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Bright Star –“We expected more from you Steve, but we...
The Curran’s first year of being open after a major renovation is coming to a close, and what a year it has been. The shows we saw at the Curran were some of our very favorites of the entire season, so...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: The Secret Garden “Grief and some ghosts’
The holidays make us nostalgic for childhood. So when we saw that 42nd Street Moon was doing a production of The Secret Garden, we thought what better way to spend a fun holiday night out? After-all,...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: In Event of Moon Disaster “If you want to get to heaven,...
We heard murmurs of a theater company with a kinda funny name, Mugwumpin, doing something pretty cool at Z-Space in Potrero Flats. An immersive theater piece, In Event of Moon Disaster that took...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Reel to Reel –“I was even a little heartbroken at the end”
It’s been quite a while since we’ve made the trek to Fort Mason to see a show at Magic Theatre. When we got notice about the world premiere of John Kolvenbach’s new play Reel to Reel “the story of a...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Saturday Night –“Such a dick”
We’re always up for a Saturday night of musical theater. When we heard local theater company, 42nd Street Moon, was putting on a Stephen Sondheim musical we hadn’t heard of before, called Saturday...
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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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Drama Talk & Drinks: Disruption –“you go girl”
A few years ago DT&D interviewed AJ Baker, Artistic Director and Resident Playwright for Three Girls Theatre company (3GT). Despite loving her, and loving the concept behind 3GT (they only produce...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: The Gangster of Love –“Really f*cking long”
When we heard about the world premiere of The Gangster of Love, a new play by award winning author by Jessica Hagedorn, which tells her story of immigration from Manila to the Haight during the 1970s...
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Drama Talk & Drinks: Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts I, II, & III)...
After five years of Drama Talk & Drinks, we realized we had never reviewed a show at one of the premiere theaters in SF, A.C.T. It seemed like a good time to start, particularly with opening of...
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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...
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