What’s Happening: New Cirque show ‘Volta’ coming to San Francisco & San Jose
Extreme sports under the Big Top.
What’s Happening: ‘Rent’ 25th anniversary farewell tour coming to the Orpheum
Saying so long with a "Farewell Season of Love."
In San Francisco: Cirque du Soleil raises iconic Big Top for ‘Kooza’
It's back -- for the first time since 2019.
If you noticed something different about the San Francisco skyline this week it might just be because of something called the Big Top.
The massive outdoor tent that can sit over 2,500 people will host the new Cirque du Soleil production Kooza.
Running...
The British Are Coming to A.C.T. with Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter
Kneehigh Theatre's groundbreaking production melds film, theater, and Noël Coward songs. This unique theater event commemorates the legacy of A.C.T.'s historic home as a movie theater during its 100th-anniversary celebratory season.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, July 22, 2009—American Conservatory Theater(A.C.T.) launches its exciting 2009–10 season with the U.S. premiere of the...
‘Welcome to the NeighborHOOD Project’ at Sargent Johnson Gallery in San Francisco
After a tour of the exhibit, I entered the theater for some fairy godmother magic with the production of 'Cinderella'.
Theater Review: ‘John Gabriel Borkman’ at Aurora Theatre, Berkeley
Indeed James Carpenter does make for the perfect lone wolf. Howling at the moon, so to speak, and trying to convince anyone that will listen to his delusional rants, he truly believes he was—and is—a savior in Aurora Theatre's John Gabriel Borkman. He's equally brooding and charismatic. And, as always...
Theater Review: Glee does Berkeley at ‘Speech & Debate’
The high school outcasts in Aurora Theatre's Speech & Debate may not know how to comfortably fit into mainstream society, but they sure do know a funky dance move or two. Beneath the George Michael-inspired good times, however, are several serious issues facing today's teens, all especially relevant in...
Theatre Review: ‘Chicago’
Fosse, Fosse, Fosse… Will we ever get over him? And why would we possibly want to? How did one name become so synonymous with a quality of movement? Having grown up where learning to do the turned-in knees and perfectly articulated elbows was almost a rite of passage, I...
Broadway veteran Eugene Brancoveanu on Dracula, seduction, scaring his daughter (interview)
He's definitely someone your parents don't want you to be with.