San Jose Rep donates to Japan earthquake relief
Founded in 1973, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California has been serving the community for over 35 years.
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Kronos Quartet and Wu Man bring ‘A Chinese Home’ to San Francisco
The program also includes Tan Dun's Ghost Opera. Since its west coast premiere at YBCA in 1995, the work has been performed around the world…
Theater Review: ‘Distracted’ explores over-medication of our children
"The problem is all the symptoms of A.D.D. are symptoms of childhood."
Theater Review: ‘Love in American Times’
Fair warning. The first clue you're possibly in for a big night of drinking, debauchery and partying (and a few gun shots): the instigator will…
Stark Insider TV: This … is … Opera Idol!
“Opera is the greatest art form created by the human mind,” Lotfi Mansouri, a judge and former general director of the San Francisco Opera, tells…
San Francisco Symphony’s centennial season launches September 7-13
The week of celebrations include an opening gala to be filmed by PBS, a centennial exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library and an all-star…
A Novel Idea: Copious Dance Theatre
All attention was focused upon Jeffrey Van Sciver, a mesmerizing black dancer with impossibly long arms and legs. Transitioning from sharply articulated moves to movements…
Hawking: Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,"
Symphony Silicon Valley: Manasse and Nakamatsu impress
Without missing a stroke he exhausts the crowd with Tchaikovsky’s Allego Con Fuoco and then after the second standing ovation of the night presents an…
‘Curtains’ – Second-Tier offering from Kander and Ebb still entertains
Set as a murder mystery in Boston in the late ‘50s, this musical within a musical is an amusing send up and romp through a…