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Things To Do: Sonia Flew (SJ Rep), Giant Bones (Exit Theatre), Meals on Wheels Gala (San Francisco)

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.13.2010

It’s another busy weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area for theater and live events. It’s somewhat surprising to see so many events crowded into…

Culture

Pink Martini and the San Francisco Symphony to perform at Davies Symphony Hall

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.11.2010

Pink Martini returns to Davies Symphony Hall to perform two special concerts with the San Francisco Symphony led by Assistant Conductor Donato Cabrera at 8:00…

FLIGHT TO NEVERLAND. Photo by Kevin Berne

Culture

Theater Review: ‘Peter Pan’ gets the Avatar treatment in San Francisco

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.10.2010

Everything but the kitchen sink gets tossed into the high-tech version of Peter Pan that opened yesterday at Ferry Park in San Francisco. With a 360-degree jumbo…

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The Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon select 9 students to compete for scholarships

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.10.2010

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, announced today the selection of nine Bay Area finalists for the Steve Silver Foundation and…

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San Francisco Fleet Week 2010 October 7-12, 2010

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.07.2010

UPDATE: The benefit performance by Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show has been updated to June 24. The San Francisco Fleet Week Association announced that San…

Act II set model Set design by Maurizio Balò

Theater and Stage

San Francisco Opera banks on ‘The Girl of the Golden West’

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.06.2010

When audiences hear one of the characters in Puccini’s 1910 opera La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) hailed as a “Wells…

Ruth (René Augesen) can't believe how clueless Tom (Dan Hiatt) is. Photo by Kevin Berne.

Culture

Theater Review: ‘Round and Round the Garden’ over-intellectualizes bawdy

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.06.2010

Norman the librarian is one heck of a swinger, baby. The three woman in his life are disgusted by his philandering ways, at least most…

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Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco celebrates ten years and the start of ZinZanni Camp

BY LONI STARK — 05.06.2010

Teatro ZinZanni, set along the historic San Francisco waterfront, provides an escape from the city into a whimsical world of cabaret, acrobatics, and comedy…all accompanied…

Norman (Manoel Felciano) and Ruth (René Augesen) discuss their marriage. Photo by Kevin Berne.

Culture

British sex farce ‘Round and Round the Garden’ comes to ACT San Francisco

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.04.2010

Only in England, you say? Round and Round the Garden, the third installment of Alan Ayckbourn’s acclaimed trilogy The Norman Conquests, opens tomorrow night at…

Celebrating Artists, Community, Activism and Social Change on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at the Historic San Francisco Chronicle Building

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Intersection for the Arts celebrates 45 years with Anniversary Gala

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.04.2010

Intersection for the Arts proudly announced its 45th anniversary gala. The evening’s highlights include Intersection’s highly anticipated art auction featuring over 70 one-of-a-kind pieces by…