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.

As I started writing this, folks were heading to the polls for the first time in a long, terrible year. Hyperbole somehow failed us when the White House was (is still being) destroyed. Plus, everyone’s Social Security numbers were stolen, the world’s biggest anti-vaxxer wants to ban Tylenol, and SNAP benefits were frozen for the first time. Yeah, it’s been that kinda year. Pandora’s box has been opened and all the maladies therein have been unleashed.

Then again, the story of Pandora’s box ends on a note of optimism (in most translations): The one thing that didn’t escape the that box was hope. The v

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