Tag: San Francisco

Magic Theatre, San Francisco’s home for new plays, announced its 2010-2011 season. The four plays featured include the west coast premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, an unforgettable tale of brotherhood directed by Octavio Solis; the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against, a subversive...

Intersection for the Arts and Campo Santo have announced the Open Process Program premiere peformances of La Semilla Caminante/The Traveling Seed, A Multimedia Performance Work created by groundbreaking artist activists: Cherríe Moraga, Celia Herrera Rodriguez and Alleluia Panis. La Semilla Caminante/ The Traveling Seed is a journey where indigenous myth...

Normally I prefer to receive facial punishment at the end of the night - either that or on ice during a hockey game; you know, when I really deserve it. Saturday night in San Francisco, however, was a most unusual exception. Not only would I receive a slap to...

A.C.T.'s favorite theatrical couple return in Vigil, a heartfelt fable about life, aging and companionship. Academy award winner (Moonstruck) Olympia Dukakis and Marco Barricelli positively light up the stage with scintillating chemistry and natural emotion that's never overwrought. Dukakis plays Grace, a woman of few words, who's enjoying butterscotch pudding and...

Shakespeare under the stars. It doesn't get much better than that. Marin Shakespeare Company (MSC) has announced their summer 2010 play lineup which includes three shows, all outdoors. Two plays continue stories from MSC’s 2009 season. The third play is a swashbuckling adaptation of a favorite Shakespearean comedy. The MSC summer...

Intersection for the Arts has announced extended gallery dates for The Bodies Are Back, a new show from Margaret Harrison. The show will be on view through April 16, 2010. In this exhibition, Harrison, one of Britain's best known women artists and a pioneer of feminist art, revisits the...

Rough and Tumble announced they will present the world premiere of A History of Human Stupidity, an intellectual vaudeville in three acts and a roast. You lock your keys in the car. Stupid. You forget to close the refrigerator. Stupid. This kind of stupidity is everywhere. It’s probably what we...

Sandy Hackett, the son of late, legendary comedian Buddy Hackett, celebrates a half century since the original Rat Pack’s legendary Las Vegas performances at the Sands Hotel, with his new touring show. Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show takes audiences on a journey back to the days of highballs, hi-jinks...

Carey Perloff, artistic director at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco, today took the wraps off the 2010-2011 season. The cornerstone of the six-show season is the world premiere musical adaptation of Tales of the City, an irrepressible celebration of the spirit that still defines our City by...

Intersection for the Arts announced a second and final extension of Mirrors In Every Corner. A world premiere, the genre breaking and strikingly original theatre work chronicles an Oakland-based African American family alternately in the present and in 1988 after the mother gives birth to a White baby. Examining how...