Crowded Fire tells a futuristic <i>Tale of Autumn</i>
Christopher Chen, Crowded Fire Theater, Lawrence Radecker, local theater, Mina Morita, Nora el Samahy, plays, theater review, World premiere Christopher Chen, Crowded Fire Theater, Lawrence Radecker, local theater, Mina Morita, Nora el Samahy, plays, theater review, World premiere

Crowded Fire tells a futuristic Tale of Autumn

Who are the good guys/bad guys? What truth lies behind smokescreens and lies? And when good guys resort to bad behavior, doesn't that make them bad guys, thus leaving no good guys and obscured truth?

San Francisco playwright Christoper Chen's world-premiere A Tale of Autumn, a commission from Crowded Fire Theater, is all about good gone bad and bad gone worse. Imagine Google, Oprah and the U.S. Government wrestling with notions of altruism and greed and you get some idea of what Chen is up to here.

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Cathleen Riddley, Gendell Hernández, Giulio Cesare Perrone, Joan McMillen, Lawrence Radecker, local theater, Lynne Soffer, Michael Torres, plays, San Francisco Chronicle, Sharmon J- Hilfinger, theater review, Tracy Ward, World premiere, Z Space Cathleen Riddley, Gendell Hernández, Giulio Cesare Perrone, Joan McMillen, Lawrence Radecker, local theater, Lynne Soffer, Michael Torres, plays, San Francisco Chronicle, Sharmon J- Hilfinger, theater review, Tracy Ward, World premiere, Z Space

Arctic Requiem celebrates work, spirit of local hero

A very personal play, BootStrap Theater Foundation's Arctic Requiem: The Story of Luke Cole and Kivalina is both educational and emotional. You'll learn more about Native Alaskan Inupiat people than you ever knew, and you'll come to care about and feel the tragic loss of Luke Cole the San Francisco environmental lawyer whose good work in the world was ended by a tragic auto accident in Uganda in 2009.

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