New works by Liz Duffy Adams and Jocelyn Bioh, and a new play about Agatha Christie, highlight exciting new season in Bay Area theater.
These are tough times for live theater. Drained by the pandemic and countless other financial challenges, many theater companies here and across the country are shutting down, while others such as TheatreWorks Silicon Valley are launching emergency fundraising campaigns to avoid doing the same.
The Bay Area theater community is one of the most diverse and innovative in the nation, generating bold new work and bringing the best the country has to offer to local stages. Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh has been making a splash with her hit comedy “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play” and the musical “Goddess” that premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre last year. Now SF Playhouse brings us Bioh’s romantic comedy set in the burgeoning Nigerian film industry of the 1990s, featuring an up-and-coming ingenue, a hotshot director, an established diva and a talk show host dubbed “the Nigerian Oprah.
Last seen at Berkeley Rep opposite Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in “No Man’s Land,” Billy Crudup returns in a comedic thriller about a Midwestern barista who worms his way into New York high society posing as a posh and charismatic gent from London. Crudup plays 19 different characters in this tour-de-force solo performance focused on two very different people who happen to be the same guy.
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