Lily Janiak
Theatre Critic at San Francisco Chronicle
Theater Critic @SFChronicle @sfc_datebook. 🚲. Copy editor stan account. 👋: [email protected] she/her.
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Carolina Czechowska and Claire Fisher-Mendez in “Wheel,” a Margaret Jenkins Dance Company production at Z Space in San Francisco. Kegan MarlingSan Francisco’s three big arts agencies — Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Film Commission —will be under one roof starting in January.
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“Co-Founders” playwrights Beau Lewis, Adesha Adefela and Ryan Nicole Austin sit for a portrait during a technical rehearsal for the production at American Conservatory Theater’s Strand Theater in San Francisco on Thursday, May 22, 2025. Jessica Christian/S.F. ChronicleNine years ago, Beau Lewis created an unusual weekly therapy group for struggling tech founders. Instead of sitting in a circle of folding chairs, participants freestyled — as in hip-hop.
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sfchronicle.com | Lily Janiak
The night after winning “Celebrity Jeopardy!” comedian W. Kamau Bell answers a question during a press conference at Castlemont High School in Oakland on April 24, 2025. Yalonda M. James/S.F. ChronicleTheater and dance fans concerned about the widespread terminations of National Endowment for the Arts grants can now help affected Bay Area organizations by attending a performance by Oakland’s own W. Kamau Bell.
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sfchronicle.com | Lily Janiak
U.S. President Donald Trump looks at a theater in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ REACH extension on March 17, 2025, in Washington, D.C. After shunning the annual Kennedy Center Honors during his first term in the White House, Trump staged a takeover of the storied music, theater and dance institution by purging the bipartisan board of Biden appointees, firing the center’s president and making himself the new chairman in February.
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sfchronicle.com | Lily Janiak
Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks about the state of San Francisco’s economy at the Chamber of Commerce’s annual CityBeat breakfast in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. Gabrielle Lurie/The ChronicleIn the old days, a politician was judged by his charisma in front of a bandstand, the power of his radio-ready voice or how he looked on TV. Today, if San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is any yardstick, it’s all about getting constituents to smash that like button on your Instagram reels.
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Love when the ones who've made it give back: https://t.co/20z8ic32Vb
Sadness. Just sadness. The kind that hits you in waves. The initial shock. The multiplying implications. The looking through old show photos to tally one fabulous production after another. On @AuroraTheatreCo's decision to suspend its season in 2025-26: https://t.co/7NpoyCQSWJ
Come for the retro vibes; stay for the trans liberation. On “Compton’s Cafeteria Riot”: https://t.co/hgQyb8VUe4