Cavalia Odysseo tour arrives in San Jose (Video)
It’s the “largest touring production on earth.” And it opens in just a few weeks in San Jose. Look for the White Big Top (Highway…
Theater and Stage
Reviews and coverage of theater and performing arts in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Berkeley, and beyond. Written by ATCA critic Clinton Stark.
A Grand Finale for the Merolini
San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program is one of the most prestigious training programs in the world for young singers. Its participants can already boast of…
Star Trek meets Mozart at Festival Opera
Comic operas are rarely hilarious. A good Fledermaus or Barber of Seville might get you chuckling on occasion, but it won’t have you holding your…
An Evening in Paris with Madeleine Peyroux and the San Francisco Symphony (Review)
Earlier this year a concert by Madeleine Peyroux in the countryside of England was said to fill a church hall with spiritual humanism. Her subsequent…
San Francisco Jazz: Kim Nalley radiant, at top of her game (Review)
Kim describes this new album as a journey of African Americans in the new world – sacred, profane, good times and bad times.
‘Phantom’ kicks off Broadway San Jose season
Great news Bay Area! Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eternal classic The Phantom of the Opera will kick off Broadway San Jose’s 2016-17 season. Look for the…
28,000 attend San Francisco Opera ‘Carmen’ performance at AT&T Park
28,000 people. In a beautiful ball park overlooking the Bay. Enjoying the classic Carmen. By all accounts the annual “Free Opera at the Ballpark” was a…
BTS: ‘Carmen’ at San Francisco Opera (Video)
Love. Lust. Murder.
Heartthrobs: ‘Biggest Boy Band Ever’
A pleasant evening at the Nourse, with San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.
Race relations and raw emotion at Aurora Theater Company
Go see this play.