Theatre
Wonderboy and 29 Effeminate Gestures
Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWonderboy tells an unexpected tale of a peculiar superhero puppet isolated by his gift of sensitivity. 29 Effeminate Gestures is a 12-minute solo set to music by Erik Ian Walker. It is an illuminating look at stereotypes of masculinity and considered Goode’s signature work.
Year of the Rooster
Impact Theatre at La Val's Subterranean 1834 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOdysseus Rex is having quite a year. Quite a part of a year, anyway - Odie’s only eight months old. But even at his young age, he’s mad as hell and wants to fight his way to the top. Did we mention Odie’s a rooster? Odie’s trainer, fast-food cashier Gil, has been raising Odie in a bid to return to the horrific world of cockfighting, his only chance to win at something in life. To get there, though, Gil and Odie have to survive Dickie the cockfight promoter, Gil’s mom, and Philipa, Gil’s young McDonald’s manager who’s got big dreams of her very own. A gut-busting yet poignant portrait of the price of ambition, this is the must-see show of the fall.
Ransom, Texas
The Flight Deck 1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United StatesIn a small West Texas town, two men locked in the office of a factory battle for power using whatever they've got: manipulation, mind-games, lies, and brute force. This savage, emotionally compelling two man tour-de-force will blow your socks off.
WarCircus (after Euripides’ The Trojan Women)
The Imaginists 461 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, United StatesWhat if you had to perform your tragedy over and over for thousands of years? Would you start to resent having to perform your role? From out of the past come the archetypal women of Troy: Helen, the beauty, Cassandra, the truth-teller, Hecuba, the matriarch, Andromache, the rock, Polyxena, the future, and the Women of the Chorus, the time-travelers.
Adventures of A Black Girl: Traveling While Black
Brava Theater 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTraveling While Black is part travelogue, part history lesson, part stand-up comedy and based on a lifetime of travel as a touring artist. Come see the show that had audiences screaming for more!
Wonderboy and 29 Effeminate Gestures
Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWonderboy tells an unexpected tale of a peculiar superhero puppet isolated by his gift of sensitivity. 29 Effeminate Gestures is a 12-minute solo set to music by Erik Ian Walker. It is an illuminating look at stereotypes of masculinity and considered Goode’s signature work.
Adventures of A Black Girl: Traveling While Black
Brava Theater 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTraveling While Black is part travelogue, part history lesson, part stand-up comedy and based on a lifetime of travel as a touring artist. Come see the show that had audiences screaming for more!
Year of the Rooster
Impact Theatre at La Val's Subterranean 1834 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOdysseus Rex is having quite a year. Quite a part of a year, anyway - Odie’s only eight months old. But even at his young age, he’s mad as hell and wants to fight his way to the top. Did we mention Odie’s a rooster? Odie’s trainer, fast-food cashier Gil, has been raising Odie in a bid to return to the horrific world of cockfighting, his only chance to win at something in life. To get there, though, Gil and Odie have to survive Dickie the cockfight promoter, Gil’s mom, and Philipa, Gil’s young McDonald’s manager who’s got big dreams of her very own. A gut-busting yet poignant portrait of the price of ambition, this is the must-see show of the fall.
Act One, Scene Two
Un-Scripted Theater Company 2nd Floor, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWith the return of Act One, Scene Two, Un-Scripted Theater Company takes on... scripts! Each evening begins with a different guest playwright, and their script for the first scene of an unfinished play. The ensemble interview the playwright onstage, perform a ‘staged’ reading of Act One, Scene One, and then go on to finish the play - now improvising, without a script - starting from Act One, Scene Two. It's a blend of scripted and un-scripted that exposes the electric heart of live theater.
AWAKENING: A Constellation of Stories, Song, and Film
The Foundry 835 Carleton Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJoin us in the loft of an old steel foundry for an original supersaga, inspired by folk tradition, silent movies, the Frankenstein myth, Shakespeare, and the works of the futurist Khlebnikov.