This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask. I talk venue safety and dramatic substance, or the lack thereof.

I wound up missing an indie theatre show this past Saturday. It’s a company that I like to support, but I knew two hours before curtain that I wouldn’t make it to the East Bay in time. Partly due to growing public transit woes in SF; partly due to some detours caused by the No Kings protest.

I didn’t attend the protest. I’d gone to the Hands Off! rally in April, but it pissed me off to the point that I refused to attend anything else by the same organizers. Don’t get me wrong: Trump and his ilk are as evil as they are narcissistic. So, knowing they’re having meltdowns over millions of their constitue

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