Lily Janiak

San Francisco Chronicle

Former S.F. arts leader lashes out at Lurie administration and calls former employees ‘Karens'

By: Lily Janiak

Former San Francisco Arts Commission leader Ralph Remington says Lurie aides pushed him out and defends his remote work before retiring

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. artists were supposed to get grants in weeks. Months later, many are still waiting

By: Lily Janiak

Theater Critic San Francisco Arts Commission grantee Susannah Smith served as creative director, with the SF Urban Film Fest, of the multimedia

MSN

SF artists were supposed to get grants in weeks. Months later, many are still waiting

By: Lily Janiak

The San Francisco Arts Commission supposedly listened to artists.

San Francisco Chronicle

This S.F. musical is a gift to a beloved teacher. For the rest of us, not so much

By: Lily Janiak

SFBATCO’s “Every Saturday Night” comes off as timid, like it’s afraid of surprise or of anything that might complicate its main characters’ virtue.

San Francisco Chronicle

Can art help bring downtown San Francisco back? Mid-Market festival makes its case

By: Lily Janiak

San Francisco’s inaugural Market Street Arts & Theater Festival filled downtown with dance, drag, circus acts and theater in a push to revive the area.

San Francisco Chronicle

Word for Word’s ‘Assimilation’ turns two immigration stories into unexpected theater

By: Lily Janiak

In short stories by E.L. Doctorow and Tatyana Tolstaya, foreigners’ arrivals become springboards for the imagination in Word for Word’s latest production.

San Francisco Chronicle

A Bay Area theater is risking it all to buy this historic building

By: Lily Janiak

Oakland Theater Project has moved into — and seeks to buy — the former New Parish in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood.

San Francisco Chronicle

There’s a Britney Spears musical. Is it any good?

By: Lily Janiak

“Once Upon a One More Time,” now in a Ray of Light Theatre production, is not a great work of art, but it provides acolytes a new altar at which to worship.

San Francisco Chronicle

This revelatory play is the Bay Area’s best small theater this year

By: Lily Janiak

Director Will Detlefsen and his wonderful actors bring delicacy and empathy to Samuel D. Hunter’s extraordinary play about male friendship, theater critic Lily Janiak writes.

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This revelatory play is the Bay Area's best small theater this year

By: Lily Janiak

The office desks and chairs are sterile. A copy machine hums in the background.