This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask.

The Book of Mormon is easily one of the funniest musicals out there, and it's no secret why. Written by the co-creators of South Park, the offensively hilarious cartoon that's aired since 1997, the ...

“The Book of Mormon,” the 2011 Broadway blockbuster and winner of virtually every theater award, is back in San Francisco.

I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard in a theater. "The Book of Mormon" is certainly irreverent and wickedly satiric -- it suggests taking religion with a great deal of salt -- and funny ...

It's unfortunate to sit in the Orpheum Theatre and feel the musical's comic attack blunted by its commandeering of Ugandan ...