Silk Stockings – Successful return of a forgotten musical
It’s been twenty years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and despite its undeniable shortcomings, capitalism as an economic model has been widely embraced…
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Sneak Peek: Napa Valley Film Festival
Running eighty seconds long the bit features some very – very – enlightened grape crushing techniques. And you were worried about brett and TCA!
ARRRRRG… A Most Notorious Woman
One could not help but be impressed with how effectively Augello uses the space around her, dipping behind a downstage sail to converse with another…
Review: ‘Drowsy Chaperone’ energizes audience
If an overweight, overwrought, middle-aged, whiny nebbish can be an oracle, Lopez has it down as he expounds at length on the action on the…
San Francisco: A.C.T. announces 2011-12 season
Includes Bay Area premiere of David Mamet’s Broadway hit Race.
Stark Insider TV passes 250,000 views
To put it in perspective, we're still about 129,000,000 (yes that's millions) views short of the "success" that Rebecca Black has achieved with her Friday…
San Francisco: Midsummer Mozart Festival announces 37th anniversary season
Bay Area favorite sets 2011 Season, July 14-24. Soloists include Jon Nakamatsu, Mark Brandenburg.
Berkeley: Impact Theatre announces 2011-12 season
The season features a piquant slate of two Bay Area premieres, an action-packed classic, and a world premiere play by Bay Area rising star Lauren…
St. Benedict’s Rule touches Silicon Valley and beyond
With the church plunged into darkness save for the lit candles on the altar, seemingly disembodied voices waft down from the choir loft for a…
Opera San Jose Backstage: La bohème (Trailer Park Boys edition)
It might be just a bit of a leap from 19th century Paris to the misadventures of the boys up in Nova Scotia, but darn…