GO-GO SEE THIS SHOW Head Over Heels is an exhilarating and seemingly improbable musical mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century work The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:36PMA PRINCIPLED PRODUCTION Director Hal Brooks delivers a remarkably authentic and poignant tale with A.C.T.’s production of Heisenberg, a short play based on a rather unremarkable human rela…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:02PMWHOOSH! “All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare memorably said. “And all the men and women merely players.” In a world premiere at the Old Globe, Anna Ziegler’s new play The Last …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:28PMLES MIZ DIRECTOR JOHN CAIRD BRINGS LA BOHÈME TO SFO San Francisco Opera’s crowd-pleasing rendition of La Bohème, which opened on Friday night, offers vocal enchantment unhampered by a b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:48AMPATOIS, DIALECTS AND DELIVERY LEAVE US IN THE WOODS Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, currently making a West coast premiere at San Francisco Playhouse, presents a darkly comic tale from the fr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:04PMA BRIGHT NEW PRODUCTION Salvation can’t come soon enough when you’re a long-term, low-wage slave worker at the local Hobby Lobby. Samuel D. Hunter’s tragicomic look at life within the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:59AMSTROP THE PRESSES! A NEW RAZOR-SHARP BARBER COMES TO TOWN Gioachino Rossini’s frolicsome 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville is superbly realized with ebullience and verve in San …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:18PMNO PROBLEM WITH THIS “PROBLEM PLAY” In Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s performance of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, director Bill Rauch manages to brew a potion of familiar Shakespearean th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:26PMLEAR AND HUNGRY TIMES With only a small caramel as dinner, I was concerned about the three-hour running time of director Bill Rauch’s contemporary adaptation of King Lear at Oregon Shakesp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:17PMTHE ISHTAR OF OPERA What if the real historical Jesus was someone quite different from what we’ve been told? What if he was born a bastard, kept a lover and then married her? What if Mar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:30PMTHEATER TO THE MAX What’s to love about the 1970s? As SF Playhouse’s presentation of Mike Leigh’s acclaimed Abigail’s Room shows, quite a bit. Director Amy Glazer offers a cornuc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:31PMRAY OF LIGHT FINDS THE HUMANITY WITHIN FRACTURED FAIRY TALES Into the Woods has been produced many times since its 1987 Broadway premiere, but it is unlikely to have benefited from as ebulli…
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