Review: ‘Les Misérables’ opens at the Orpheum (plus photos!)
Almost everyone I know, regardless of age, places themselves behind the barricades with the students. However, something more obvious is happening...
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‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ digital reissue hits big screen
The theatrical screening will be the "best version yet" of the 1975 comedy directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones and features a clearer, sharper…
Custom-made Shakespeare: ‘Merchant of Venice’
While strutting their cells phones, investments and irony, the cast seemed so at home in this language that they brought the text to a whole…
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts announces new programming for 2012-2013
The Big Ideas are: ENCOUNTER: Engaging the social context; SOAR: The search for meaning; REFLECT: Considering the personal; and DARE: Innovations in art, action, audience.
SF Playhouse moves to larger space
SF Playhouse will open its tenth season at 450 Post Street in the heart of the city's Theatre District.
Stark Pick of the Week: Festival del Sole in Napa
Actors scheduled to attend Fest del Sole include Chris Noth, Michael Keaton, Hugh Dancy, Minnie Driver, and Dennis Haysbert. All will participate Satuday night ("24…
Bay Area Stage: ‘Sweeney Todd’ in San Francisco
Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller Sweeney Todd opens in San Francisco this weekend, on Friday the 13th.
First Fruit of the Summer: Merolini
This operatic program may be less well known than Harvard, but it's roughly twice as competitive.
The Livermore Shakespeare Festival ups the ante
"It is not the easiest task to try and make a living on what most artists are paid in this country."
‘Chicago’ in San Jose
A film version, starring Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and directed by Rob Reiner, was released in 2002 and won six Academy Awards.