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…
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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…
Exploring Napa – Downtown Art Scene with Gordon Huether
How did I ever end up saying that I wanted to be covered in Sushi to one of Napa's most famous and well-known artists?
Berkeley Rep announces three new shows for 2011-12
Barsyhnikov, Kneehigh, and Orlandersmith added to line-up for the coming season.
American Idiot coming back to San Francisco Bay Area
Based on the Green Day album, the musical premiered in Berkeley in 2009 where it received world-wide attention and played to packed houses at the…