"For instance, I didn't expect to be writing this very piece just days after PG&E shit the bed (again) and sent most of our fair city into a days-long blackout. I didn't expect said blackout a mere two weeks after a PG&E gasline caused another residential explosion in the East Bay. And I certainly didn't expect to write that the aforementioned blackout made notoriously-homocidal robo-taxis cause the very sort of gridlock everyone was expecting to happen from closing The Great Highway."
"I can buy the idea of a Black girl from Kansas bursting into song as she and her anthropomorphic friends Ease on Down a yellow-bricked road; I can accept the story of the Chinese Monkey King being trapped under stone for thousands of years without needing sustenance; I can even accept the idea of an eccentric abuela using her camera collection to go on Narnia-style adventures."
Bay Area theatre faces unexpected venue changes, public-safety crises, and questions about dramatic plausibility. The San Francisco Giants purchased the Curran Theatre, creating uncertainty for the Shorenstein Hays venue. A PG&E failure caused a days-long citywide blackout just two weeks after a separate PG&E gasline explosion in the East Bay. The blackout triggered notoriously homicidal robo-taxis to produce severe gridlock akin to that feared from closing The Great Highway. Critical standards accept fantastical, internally consistent premises—singing children, mythic figures, Narnia-like cameras—while rejecting scripts that weaponize real-world political corruption or nihilistic destruction. Ongoing rumors surround local theatre figures and productions.
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