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Aaron Sheehan (left) as Jonathan and Derek Chester in "David and Jonathan" opera
Posted inTheater

Baroque-era ‘David and Jonathan’ opera gets new, queer adaptation in Oakland

by Sue Fishkoff July 21, 2025July 21, 2025
Richard Kind
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Richard Kind coming to S.F. to explain his ‘not famous’ life

by Dan Pine May 23, 2025May 25, 2025
Sasha Velour in "The Big Reveal Live Show!" (Greg Endries)
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Jewish drag superstar ready to sashay into Bay Area for her ‘Big Reveal’

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Supervisor Harvey Milk at the 1978 San Francisco Gay Day Parade, as it was then called. (Courtesy GLBT Historical Society Jewish LGBTQ Voices and Activism Source Set)
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Harvey Milk opera that ‘reimagines’ the gay Jewish icon returns to S.F.

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 14, 2025May 15, 2025
Weaver narrates "Shterna & the Lost Voice," as Kiah Raymond operates the "crankie." (Darren Port)
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New Jewish folktale gets ‘crankie’ with old-timey storytelling device

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 7, 2025May 8, 2025
Talia Suskauer and Max Chernin in Parade (Joan Marcus)
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The lynching of Leo Frank coming to Northern California in ‘Parade’ revival

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 29, 2025May 2, 2025
Dancers in rehearsal for Marika Brussel's "Slant of the Earth." (Courtesy)
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New ballet on Peninsula reinvents Genesis as a love quadrangle

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 8, 2025April 14, 2025
The Flying Karamazov Brothers, a Santa Cruz-based circus troupe that attained unusually wide pop culture recognition, is performing its 50th anniversary show at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto on April 26, 2025. (Courtesy)
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50 years later, Flying Karamazov Brothers return to Bay Area, where it all started

by Dan Pine March 31, 2025April 3, 2025
An SS officer shakes a dog’s paw. (Courtesy U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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Candid photos of off-hours Nazis at Auschwitz inspired play at Berkeley Rep

by Sue Fishkoff March 12, 2025March 20, 2025
Jamie Marx, "The Spiel Guy" (left) has written Purimspiels used by hundreds of synagogues — including Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos, seen here enjoying his "Encanto"-themed spiel.
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450 synagogues have turned to ‘The Spiel Guy’ for their Purimspiel scripts

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 11, 2025March 11, 2025

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