SF Fringe Festival announces shows for 2012
Shows include 25 from the Bay Area and feature companies from – besides San Francisco - Oakland, Berkeley, Pacifica, San Anselmo, Lafayette, Auburn, Fresno, Walnut…
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American Dream deconstructed Casey Anthony style in ‘Buried Child’
By the time slacker Bradley is crawling, semi-chasing Vince through the house in an attempt to recover his prosthetic leg, the family is in full…
Review: ‘A Doctor in Spite of Himself’ a mishy-mashy mash-up
There's a neat trick involving puppets at the beginning of the show, which repeats at the end under a striking moon lit evening sky. Once…
Theater Review: ‘Green Whales’ – Sympathy for the Devil?
Gloria McDonald and Sara Luna lead a superb cast of four that capture the just the right tone of comic desperation without ever lapsing into…
Bay Area Stage: Buried Child, Doctor in Spite of Himself, Scorched, Mamma Mia!, Tontlawald
We have shows in today's edition from San Francisco (A.C.T., SHN, Cutting Ball), down to San Jose (San Jose Stage), and back up the other…
Philip Kaufman to receive award at Cinequest writers celebration
Based in San Francisco, Kaufman's work - including Raiders of the Lost Ark - is outspoken and confident, fiercely independent and liberally seasoned with wide-eyed…
“Right now” the perfect time to make an independent film (interview)
With low-cost, high quality gear now readily available, such as the amazing RED system which Nguyen used to shoot his first feature, the emphasis is…
Revisiting Gatsby with Ensemble Parallele
Exquisite costumes, imaginative lighting, and video artistry evidence the incredible work poured into this production. Particularly compelling were the set designs, which were dominated by…
Review: Ives Quartet Iluminates
This reference begins a musical joke throughout the entire piece starting with 3 notes repeated fives times by five different notes in the first 13…
Outtakes from AT&T Park (video)
Over 1,000 people turned out for the Heroes & Hearts annual luncheon. In case you missed the announcement, Winter in San Francisco has been cancelled.…