Tag: San Francisco

  San Francisco Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi’s masterwork Otello, opening November 8 with six subsequent performances through December 2 at the War Memorial Opera House. Starring in the title role is South African tenor Johan Botha alongside Bulgarian soprano Zvetelina Vassileva as Desdemona and Italian baritone Marco Vratogna as Iago....

Check out this dramatic photo posted to Twitter today by a very anxious and concerned bridge crosser. That is a cable and steel fragments, fallen from a cantilever section of the famous Bay Bridge which links San Francisco to Oakland; the bridge that commuters universally loathe. I can only imagine...

Quick update for all you fans of great theater and musicals! The hits keep coming. Four shows open this week in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, we have November, a political satire by David Mamet. Apparently it would make "even a Glengarry...

No sense in kicking an industry when it's down, but you may find it hard not to rubber neck a little at the sight that is traditional media, dying roadside. And it's Frankenstein ugly—too bad, it only wanted some readers and love. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, all...

Check out the Porsche: I think he just robbed a bank!!

"I am satisfied!" says The Creature as his journey nears an end in Trevor Allen's adaptation of the famous Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein. And so was I. Very. This production is a through-and-through masterpiece. If it was a bumper car ride at the fair, I'd circle back into line to...

The Bay Area Premiere of "Goldfish" is a gritty and heart wrenching study by playwright John Kolvenbach into the bonds that unite us as fathers, mothers, sons and daughters and what happens when change threatens them. Leo (Rod Gnapp) is the father to a loving teenage son, Albert (Andrew Pastides)....