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Also an actor, Tayna Berezin was artistic director of the Circle Repertory Company, a storied off-Broadway incubator of talent that she had helped found in 1969.

At the Circle Repertory Company, where she said her goal was to “confuse people,” she nurtured a new generation of writers and actors in the 1980s and ’90s.

How a new generation of East Bay bars cultivates fresh space for the queer community

The former Virgil's Sea Room is going from vaguely seafaring-themed to space-travel themed, and the new name for the place will be Mothership.

Three veteran Mission District bartenders will open Mothership, which is “not an alien...

Virgils Sea Room permanently closes, the latest loss among S.F.s endangered queer bars FacebookTwitterEmail Lila Thirkield, owner of Virgil’s Sea Room, outside her previous bar, the Lexington Club.Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle 2015 The San Francisco queer bar Virgil’s Sea Room has permanently closed after eight years in business, the latest in a string of queer-bar closures in the city. The reason for the closure was simple, said owner Lila Thirkield. At the beginning of the pandemic, sh...

El Rios new mural, Virgils at far right. | Photo: Joe Kukura/Hoodline By Jay Barmann - Published on February 23, 2021. Two bars, two different fates. Over in Bernal Heights/La Lengua, next-door bars El Rio and Virgils Sea Room, which almost share a backyard were it not for a fence, have arrived at diverging moments in this COVID year. 11 months after closing down in the initial wave of business lockdowns, El Rio has reemerged with a fresh mural on its face, serving to-go cocktails and food item...

Beloved SF Mission queer bar Virgils Sea Room to permanently close FacebookTwitterEmail Virgils Sea Room, a queer bar at 3152 Mission St. in San Francisco, is permanently closing.Michelle D. via Yelp Virgils Sea Room, a nautical-themed queer bar at Mission and Precita in San Francisco, has permanently closed. "It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce our closure," read the Instagram announcement from owner Lila Thirkield on Monday. "We are another victim of the times. After a...