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The Wedding Ring - San Francisco Film Festival

Independent Film

Wedding Ring, Long Excuse: On location at the San Francisco International Film Festival

BY JEANNE POWELL — 04.13.2017

Jeanne Powell is on the ground at the annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Here’s her quick look at the influential fest. The San Francisco…

Culture

Broadway musicals ‘Something Rotten’, ‘An American in Paris’ highlight upcoming SHN season

BY MONICA TURNER — 04.12.2017

SHN has revealed its upcoming 2017/18 season and it looks like another strong line-up of Broadway musicals. See below for the full schedule and details.…

Guy Fieri at Pebble Beach Food & Wine with Loni Stark

Culture

West Coast Wanderlust: Pebble Beach Food & Wine, 100 celebrity chefs, 300 wines… this could be good

BY MONICA TURNER — 04.12.2017

10th anniversary edition of famed culinary event returns to Pebble Beach.

Theater Review: Needles and Opium at A.C.T. San Francisco

News

Lepage makes high-tech magic at the ACT

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 04.06.2017

The production’s deft use of technology gives 'Needles and Opium' a major “wow” factor.

New Girl in Town - 42nd Street Moon Review

Theater and Stage

‘New Girl in Town’ a catchy classic

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 04.03.2017

If you asked me to name playwrights whose works were suitable for adaptation into musicals, Eugene O’Neill would be one of the last to come…

Theater and Stage

‘Eva Trilogy’ World Premiere leads Magic Theatre’s 2017-18 season

BY MONICA TURNER — 03.31.2017

Theater news of interest for those in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. Magic Theatre today took the wraps off its 2017-18 season, and…

Independent Film

Spotlight on True/False Film Festival

BY JANICE NIEDER — 03.29.2017

I had heard about Columbia’s True/False Film Festival for years, but since it wasn’t anywhere near my neck of the woods I never got around…

Theater Review: Frankenstein at City Lights Theater Company, San Jose

Theater and Stage

Review: Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ re-imagined for stage in dynamic, high-tech adaptation

BY CLINTON STARK — 03.26.2017

The perfect marriage of art and technology for an empathy-deprived world.

News

‘Hamilton’ on tour lives up to the hype

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 03.24.2017

Never have I seen an audience this excited.

The Strand Theater - Hardhat tour with Carey Perloff

Culture

End of a Magical Era: Carey Perloff to depart American Conservatory Theater

BY CLINTON STARK — 03.23.2017

Big news today in the world of theater. American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) has announced that after 25 years at the helm as artistic director Carey…