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What's hot in Siberia
High points along the trail of a Russian theater excursionA crackin' good 'Hamlet'arts@sfbg.comTHEATER Emerald green rooftops and gold domes enliven the skyline of Omsk, a provincial city and former...
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Pride on fire: This year's must-do events
Rocco Katastrophe hosts the 'Unofficial" Trans March afterparty on Fri/28Strap on that rainbow jetpack -- there's a heckuva lot of stuff going down at Pride. Here are our pinkiest, proudest picks....
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The Performant: People are Strange
Ape faces and hocus-pocusesShe was a medical marvel in an age where such marvels were not entirely uncommon. Forced into sideshows or the superficially more genteel lecture circuit, these Victorian-era...
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Independence movement
Oakland's SALTA collective plans to be 'always looking for a space'A scene from a SALTA productionarts@sfbg.comTHEATER/DANCE The crowd outside the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland was hopping....
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Unfinished business
UK and SF groups partner on performance-makingEye, eye: costumed University of Chichester student Darren PurnellCOURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTERTHEATER About two years ago, a small band of Brits...
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Labors of love
Teatro Jornalero sin Fronteras at the Imaginists base in Santa Rosa.Photo courtesy of the ImaginistsLos Angeles's Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras makes common cause with Santa Rosa's the...
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The Performant: Parts is Parts
"Factory Parts" opens tonight and runs through July 28 at NOH Space.FoolsFURY’s Factory Parts Builds a Future for Ensemble WorksEver ambitious, the process-oriented foolsFURY theater ensemble has added...
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Baring all: Red Hots Burlesque presents “Burlesque and WHY”
Red Hots Burlesque— the longest running queer burlesque show in the country, according to founder and producer Dottie Lux — moves out of the bars and into the theater with Burlesque and WHY(The Naked...
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The Performant: The Stiltwalkers Union
In an iconic sequence from Winsor McCay’s eccentrically beautiful Little Nemo in Slumberland, Nemo’s bed sprouts elongated legs and strolls through the city as Nemo and his cantankerous friend Flip...
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The Performant: Surrender to Dorothy
San Francisco’s invasion of Canada has begunOn my first day in Alberta, Canada I am greeted by gracious Edmontonians bearing platters of smoked meats, a local tradition perhaps, and upon joining my...
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Sublime nonsense: extended interview with Wet the Hippo's John Gilkey
Gabe McKinney, Alec Jones-Trujillo, Don Colliver, Tim Reid, and John Gilkey in Wet the Hippo.Photo by Jean-Louis DarvilleNote: this is an extended version of an interview that appears in this week's...
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The Performant: Fringe Dwellers
It’s hard to believe, but the 32nd annual Edmonton Fringe is already over and touring companies like Naked Empire Bouffon are packing their bags to move on to the next festival, while artists who have...
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Fall forward
FALL ARTS: THEATER Onstage highlights of the coming seasonSTUDIUM THEATRALNEKAZIK ROLBIECKIarts@sfbg.comFALL ARTS Kings and queens, Brits and brats, music and mayhem, puppets and oppressors—the stage...
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Self service: SF Fringe Festival tells it like it is
Ryan Hayes, Meg Hurtado, Margery Fairchild, and Nathan Tucker in "StormStressLenz" at the SF Fringe FestivalPhoto by Serena MorelliNote: this is an extended version of an article that appears in this...
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The Performant: For Those Who Have Rocked, We Salute You
"The Fringe is a great way to get your own weird and wonderful original work out," says puppeteer Zeb L. West.Photo courtesy of courtesy of Zeb L. WestTheater artists reflect on life on the road in...
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Government smackdown
The Taming hits below the Beltway but stays shy of a knockoutSparkle truth to power: The TamingPHOTO BY PARK HANarts@sfbg.comTHEATER The premise of Bay Area playwright Lauren Gunderson's latest, The...
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The art of dialogue
Voices and impressions from Poland's Dialog Festival A scene from Sarah Kane's Cleansed as staged in Wroclaw, Polandarts@sfbg.comTHEATER Maybe there's no better way to grasp your own time and place...
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One of us
Emotional monstrosities animate 'Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness'The show must go on: Shotgun Players' exceptional ensemble includes Patrick Kelly Jones and Sarah Moser. PHOTO BY PAK...
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Monologos de la Vagina finds new actress to replace controversial conservative
Maria Conchita Alonso and Tim Donnely in his campaign ad. Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezFollowing national controversy over the resignation of a politically conservative actress from the local...
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Expose yourself to art
Deborah Cullinan and Marc Bamuthi Joseph talk creative ecosystems and Young Jean Lee's 'Untitled Feminist Show'UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOWPHOTO BY JULIETA CERVANTESarts@sfbg.comRead more »
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