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The evening was beautifully fruitful, bringing forth the voices of incarcerated people and speaking their words into existence.

Alongside what was scripted, DeLa and Jinkx pulled tricks out of their sleeves left and right when it came to getting the audience involved.

“FEMLINS!” comes as the latest entry in the string of parodies staged by Christ at The Castro Theatre.

Describing her onstage persona as “terminally delightful,” BenDeLaCreme built her character around the notion of “blind optimism perpetually trying to look for the silver lining.”

Detox hasn’t performed in a theatrical production like Christ’s since 2011 and welcomes her involvement in “Femlins” as a fun challenge.

In a way, the evening — shredded shorts, brown folders and all — was an extended metaphor in perspectival performativity

As part of an Amazon Studios promotional screening, Jones sat down with Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, a clinical assistant professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday night to discuss the new TV show, the evolution of the column and his take on love.

The conversation, held in front of a full house as it were, began cheerfully and only grew more energetic as the hour drew on. Coates’ finely honed writerly craft of combining enormous, nuanced and historically problematized subjects with masterful narration is seamlessly evident in his speech.

The enthusiasm of the audience on the evening of the prescreening was palpable, and it was delightful to see the diversity of the Arab world and its talent presented in each film.

One of Rodas' goals had been to write about autism as it appeared in “a text, in words, in language ... as a thing, as an abstract, not in body, not in person.”