Lily Janiak

News, reviews, and event information for 13th Floor Dance Theater’s ‘The Lost Inn’ at The Old Mint on Jan 23, 2025, on Datebook from the The San Francisco Chronicle.

News, reviews, and event information for Poltergeist Theatre Project, Potatoes Mashed Comedy and Oasis Arts’ ‘Dragcula’ at Oasis on Jan 16, 2025, on Datebook from the The San Francisco Chronicle.

There's the mercurial Prelude in C-Sharp Minor — clanging like a thunderstorm, smoldering like a fireplace. There's Piano Concerto No. 2, indelibly associated with 'Brief Encounter' — roiling, aching, tender,…

You start to wish Daphne’s story could take life as its own new musical instead of being shoehorned into preexisting intellectual property.

Teeth sharpen. Skin drains of color. Wolves howl outside, and inside everyone shivers. It's creepy. It's sexy. It's Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' and it's prime for queer reappropriation. All those sublimated…

One scene is a moss-covered tavern. Another is a carnival midway complete with old-school tossing games and a fortune-telling stand. Still others take place inside sepulchral underground vaults with disconcertingly…

News, reviews, and event information for PlayGround’s ‘The Shakespeare Sequels’ at David Brower Center on Jan 15, 2025, on Datebook from the The San Francisco Chronicle.

In the oeuvre of Mo Willems, a three-time Caldecott Honoree, characters frequently break what in theater would be the fourth wall. 'I think someone is looking at us,' Elephant suspiciously…

News, reviews, and event information for Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s ‘The Thing About Jellyfish’ at Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre on Jan 31, 2025, on Datebook from the The San Francisco Chronicle.

News, reviews, and event information for Stanford Live’s ‘Food’ at Stanford University Memorial Auditorium on Feb 05, 2025, on Datebook from the The San Francisco Chronicle.