Culture

Performing Arts
Clinton Stark
05.22.2013

That I had goose bumps yet again after a Janelle Monáe performance probably tells me everything I need to know.

The Arts
05.21.2013

In a strange twist of vodka and make-up, the tables are turned and the interviewer becomes Joan Crawford while the woman behind the icon asks the really hard questions as she struggles to understand the truth behind her career and life.

Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm (William Giammona) and Countess Charlotte Malcolm (Alicia Teeter) in Hillbarn's presentation of 'A Little Night Music'.
No clowns
BY | 05.13.13

This injection of contradictory elements is unmistakably Sondheim; it leaves the audience feeling that they’re watching something particularly smart.

Patrick Stewart
What's Happening
BY | 05.07.13

Full cast announced for limited, pre-Broadway run of Harold Pinter’s play this August

Janelle-Monae-San-Francisco
Performing Arts
BY | 05.06.13

Janelle Monáe’s duet with the band Fun (“We Are Young”) was a smash hit last year reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Original Broadway Cast of 'The Book of Mormon' (Photo: Joan Marcus)
San Francisco Stage
BY | 05.02.13

SHN season line-up includes Book of Mormon, Beautiful, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Once, and a sixth show to be revealed.

Opera Parallele - Trouble in Tahiti
More than just peacock feathers
BY | 05.01.13

The edgy intensity that Brancoveanu brought to Orphée two years ago has grown exponentially with the passage of time, bursting forth to bring an explosive Sam, priapically strutting the stage.

San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
The Arts
BY | 04.23.13

The fifth Broadway San Jose season will start in October of 2013 with the Bay Area exclusive engagement of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, followed by a new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic Evita.

Martina-McBride-Mondavi-Concert
Bay Area Stage
BY | 04.22.13

Martina McBride, Lifehouse and Huey Lewis among acts that will headline the 44th annual summer concert series.

Stuck Elevator
San Francisco Culture
BY | 04.20.13

On a mild spring evening yesterday, with tourists overflowing Union Square, I took in a performance at the Geary Theater. What I discovered was an inventive, humorous, and heartfelt production.