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San Francisco: Humanities West 2012-13 season explores history and culture

BY MONICA TURNER — 06.20.2012

2012-13 season programming includes 'Paris: 'American Expatriate Genius', 'Charles II: Phoenix of Restoration London' , and Bernini’s Rome: Art & Architecture of the Baroque'.

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Les Misérables coming to San Francisco

BY MONICA TURNER — 06.19.2012

Opening in Broadway in 1987, the original run closed sixteen years later after 6,680 performances.

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The bloody life and times of a Rock ‘n Roll President

BY CLINTON STARK — 06.18.2012

Following in the footsteps of American Idiot and, before that, Rock of Ages and Spring Awakening, here the rock musical meets History Channel.

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Marin Shakespeare Company opens summer festival with ‘King John’

BY MONICA TURNER — 06.18.2012

Against a backdrop of shifting fortunes, politics and family dynamics, Shakespeare reveals human complexity and fallibility in this compression of history.

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Quintessentially American: ‘Nixon in China’ at San Francisco Opera

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 06.18.2012

Soprano Hye June Lee’s coloratura aria "I am the Wife of Chairman Mao," left the audience breathless with its ferocity. For all the vocal pyrotechnics…

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A New Kind of Tension: ‘American Idiot’ at the Orpheum

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 06.15.2012

American Idiot is by far the most compelling performance I’ve ever seen at the Orpheum here in San Francisco.

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Greek Austerity and Dionysus Festival

BY STARK INSIDER — 06.13.2012

The modern Western technocrat of today is hardly a political visionary and the economic solutions provided are highly instable, even flammable.

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Buddy Holly tribute concert coming to California Theatre

BY MONICA TURNER — 06.12.2012

"If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him ‘pop.’ Don’t tell him ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ or they won’t even let you…

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Getting off the road at TheatreWorks with GrooveLily

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 06.12.2012

Putting your life to music doesn’t necessarily make your life art, especially when it turns on the clichéd ticking of a biological clock.

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Tony Award for best new play goes to ‘Clybourne Park’

BY MONICA TURNER — 06.10.2012

"There are a few choice words used in the second act of Clybourne Park that you rarely hear used anywhere, let alone on the majestic…