In Napa: Ingrid Michaelson, Andy Grammer, Ben Rector headline Live in the Vineyard (Video)
4-day LITV music festival returns with another marquee line-up.
Culture
Explore San Francisco and Bay Area culture through theater reviews, film, contemporary art, and creative events. Featuring original artwork by Loni Stark, film reviews by Jeanne Powell, and insights by ATCA member Clinton Stark.
Dirty Dancing Re-visited: 1987 film adapted for stage (Video)
I go backstage at the Golden Gate Theatre and re-discover some 80's magic.
Mystic Crystal Revelations: Hair
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
Director Tom McCarthy on ‘Spotlight’, “If we increase awareness, we’ve done our job as story-tellers”
Legacy journalism and new media. Oscar-winning film 'Spotlight' is about more than just scandal. Watch as director Tom McCarthy talks about the future of news…
Theatre Rhinoceros adopts an uneven play
Tanya Barfield’s The Call is nominally a play about adoption. As such, the premise (an exploration of a couple’s excitement and doubts about adopting a…
The pitfalls of parenting summed up perfectly in this video
The Talk is “not for young children unless you want an awkward talk with them.” Indeed. The pitfalls of parenting. Sugar-coating be damned. The 8-minute…
Breaking News: An Act of God hits San Francisco
"Then I thought, 'Let me take a brief break from eternity, and devote the greater part of a week creating a universe. And, I dunno,…
Poised between two worlds in ‘She Loves Me’
This Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) 1963 musical looks forward as well. The new energy is palpable, but it’s not all there yet.
Bold and Bizarre: The Unfortunates at ACT
Three a cappella group members walk into the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It’s not the start of a joke; it’s the birth of a musical. Or…
At the Orpheum: The Illusionists (Review)
The Orpheum has a history of big lunacy, undoubtedly bearing psychedelic traces that permanently alter the chemistry of the ceiling ornaments so that 'The Illusionists'…