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Romantic comedy ‘Maggie’s Plan’ a surprise highlight at SFIFF (Review)

BY JEANNE POWELL — 05.24.2016

A surprise highlight of the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival, Maggie’s Plan provides an intriguing take on romantic comedies. Single and hearing her biological…

Culture

San Francisco: Summer with the Symphony line-up revealed

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.23.2016

Star Trek, Pink Martini, Ratatouille with live orchestra, music from the Final Fantasy video game series. San Francisco Symphony's Summer Series is stocked to the…

Culture

‘Last Five Years’ a sleeper hit at A.C.T. San Francisco (Review)

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 05.21.2016

The imaginative geometries created by Roberts Wierzel’s lighting design are so striking that whole dissertations could be directed at explicating how their crisp precision advances…

Culture

SFIFF Standout Cinema: ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’ and ‘Les Cowboys’

BY JEANNE POWELL — 05.16.2016

The 59th edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival wrapped earlier this month, and, once again, did not disappoint, bringing to the big screen international,…

Theater and Stage

Cinderella‘s magic survives a rewrite

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 05.05.2016

Watching a made-for-television Cinderella by Rogers and Hammerstein is an important part of growing up in a musical theater-loving family. I’ve wasted evenings debating the…

Theater and Stage

A mostly happy Most Happy Fella at 42nd Street Moon

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 05.02.2016

Mention Frank Loesser to a musical theater fan, and you’re sure to hear about Guys and Dolls. The Most Happy Fella is unlikely to be…

Theater and Stage

‘The Lion’, a roaringly good new musical

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 04.21.2016

“What makes a lion a lion?” Alone onstage with seven guitars, Benjamin Scheuer sings, “My father has an old guitar, and he plays me folk…

SF Opera Lab - Triplets of Belleville Review

Theater and Stage

A swinging Belleville rendezvous at San Francisco Opera Lab

BY ILANA WALDER-BIESANZ — 04.18.2016

In 2004, Finding Nemo won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. It beat out a very different finalist: the bizarre French-Québécois film The Triplets…

SFGMC Tales of Our City Spring Concert Review

Culture

Opening the Pearly Gates: SF Gay Men’s Chorus at Davies

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 04.18.2016

The audience was on their feet before raconteur, writer and de facto social historian Armistead Maupin regaled the audience without resorting to the old saw,…

Culture

Theater Picks: Cyrano, Tales of Our City, Triplets of Belleville, Colette Uncensored, Boeing Boeing, The Lion

BY MONICA TURNER — 04.15.2016

“I think there is no world without theatre.” – Edward Bond Looking for a show to see? Stark Insider is here to help. This edition…