New Broadway musical WANTED has announced their full cast arriving this fall to the James Earl Jones Theatre. See who will be joining Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine as sisters Mary and Martha Clarke in the soulful new m…
JOHNNY MORENO, JEFF KIM & especially MICHELLE TALGAROW are excellent in Bill English's beautifully directed San Francisco Playhouse production running through June 29th.
Have no Valentine’s Day plans? Check out a show, concert, party or reading on Thursday: András Schiff: The pianist and conductor appears with the San Francisco Symphony and guests s…
In chronological order, these were the year's most notable moments in the arts, from this editor's highly personal perspective. "Vietgone" at American Conservatory Theater (March) The wild 1…
In "Kaleidoscope," the new Circus Bella show under a big tent on Treasure Island, clown Sara Moore balances a broom on her hand and has an amusing bit chasing the » The post Circus Bell…
San Francisco Opera's revised production of Jake Heggie's opera "It's a Wonderful Life" in its West Coast premiere is a feel-good holiday-themed piece, even as it could add some "fixins" …
After years, sometimes decades, of steady leadership, major Bay Area arts organizations are undergoing big changes. San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, 73, is steppi…
Fresh mixed-media effects and a strong cast set the stage for San Francisco Opera's engaging revival of Francesca Zambello's 2011 production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle at Tuesday's first perfo…
Opera fans from around the world, especially Richard Wagner aficionados, will flock to the War Memorial Opera House June 12-July 1 as San Francisco Opera presents three cycles of the » …
Since 2003, the San Francisco International Arts Festival has presented artists from across the world with innovative projects dedicated to increasing human awareness and understanding ̵…
It's time for the 2018 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and that means free outdoor entertainment in The City from spring through fall. The festival's 18th season begins at 1 p.m. » The po…
Bay Area doctors told touching stories about love on Tuesday at Brava theater in The City in a live version of The Nocturnists, a San Francisco-based podcast dedicated to bringing » The…
On opening night of the Drag Kings' wacky and wonderful parody of "Turnabout Intruder" " the final episode of the original "Star Trek" TV series from 1969 " the audience » The post 'Sta…
Someone in the audience at Thursday night's San Francisco Symphony performance of "Candide" could probably tell you how many times it changed moods, styles, tempo and locale. I admit I »…
San Francisco Opera will present a chronological, comprehensive selection of nine operas " from Handel's rarely performed Baroque classic "Orlando" to Jake Heggie's contemporary "It's a Wond…
San Francisco Opera brought back Massenet's opera “Manon” after a 19-year absence Saturday evening in Vincent Boussard's new production, which raised questions over its setting, …
Maestro Michael Wirgler's fondest memories of making music in Golden Gate Park for decades have been of families listening to the concerts together and children dancing in the front row. …
Although San Francisco Opera didn't break new ground Saturday night opening its sixth revival of John Copley's production of Verdi's "La Traviata," strong company debuts from soprano Aurelia…
Paris in February can be a city as chilly as it is costly, as it is in Puccini's "La Bohème." But San Francisco Opera's strong cast of bohemians breathed warmth » The post Artistry and…
Mozart's masterpiece "Don Giovanni" makes it quite clear it's a man's world. And two powerhouse bass-baritones, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (in the title role) and Erwin Schrott (as his servant) …
San Francisco Opera's announcement that bass-baritone Erwin Schrott would replace the ailing Marco Vinco as Leporello in "Don Giovanni" is a win-win: The opera lands a renowned Mozart interp…
Early on in "Rigoletto," a curse befalls the title character that will dog him throughout the tale. But San Francisco Opera's re-staging of the Verdi favorite, which opened Wednesday, is …
San Francisco composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer are embarking on what seems like an impossible mission: writing a two-act opera based on Julien Green's 1947 Faustian fantasy, "…
The Foo Fighters, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Maroon 5 were announced Tuesday as the headlining acts for the fifth-annual BottleRock Napa Valley festival taking place in Napa in &…
Director Francesca Zambello's new San Francisco Opera production of "Aida" — boasting bold, contemporary designs by Los Angeles street artist RETNA — meets the challenges of moun…
There are many parts of Al Letson's one-man show that are truly moving. One is when he, a black man, offers to shake the hand of a white cop who » The post Poet Al Letson has a moving '…
It's time to gather up the kiddies for the newest skating spectacular: Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure!" is about to hit the Bay Area. This time around, Mickey » The post '…
German soprano Nadja Michael, singing the lead role of San Francisco Opera's revival of Olivier Tambosi's riveting production of LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek’s "The Makropulos Case," is excep…
There's no fool like an old fool, and few old fools endure comic flimflammery quite like the aging title character in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," which has been revived after 32 » The p…
The attempt to adapt a 2,400-page-plus classic novel of Chinese literature into an English-language opera might seem destined to please neither Asian literary scholars nor Western opera puri…
In Giordano's pinnacle verismo work "Andrea Chénier," which takes place during the French Revolution, it's only a matter of time before heads start to roll. Fortunately, heads are more like…
San Francisco Opera faces a seemingly daunting challenge with its world premiere of composer Bright Sheng and co-librettist David Henry Hwang's "Dream of the Red Chamber," which is based on …
The 146th edition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus doesn't have any elephants, and, guess what? They weren't missed on Thursday's opening night at Oracle Arena in »…
On Sunday, siren Star Amerasu heard the news about the mass shooting victims in Orlando and wrote a new song to perform at this week's Fresh Meat Festival. "I felt » The post Fresh Meat…
"I saw a muzzled dog vomit on the bus." That first line promises much, and monologist Ady Lady follows through, in her wildly funny show onstage at The Marsh in » The post Ady Lady pond…
Organizers of San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival announced Tuesday that this year’s event in October will be its last on the island. Along with the announcement of th…
San Francisco International Arts Festival Where: Fort Mason, Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, S.F. When: May 19 through June 5 Ticket: $12 to $35 Contact: (415) 399-9554, www.sfiaf.org …
Among the more than 100 offerings from 13 countries in the 2016 San Francisco International Arts Festival is the home-grown piece "Uncle Gunjiro's Girlfriend" by Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark &#…
After a four-year drought relieved by a season of El Niño rain, what could be more appropriate than a new ballet by a California native, with a score composed by » The post Smuin Bal…
If the new SF Opera Lab were looking for a suitable candidate for the intimate Taube Atrium Theater, it could find few better matches than "Svadba"Wedding," a delightful and moving » Th…
Sometimes a pop-charting single becomes part of the cultural zeitgeist. It's the case with Rachel Platten's anthemic "Fight Song," which she penned with Dave Bassett. Although the New York-b…
God has landed in San Francisco, and he's got issues. In "An Act of God," a weary, exasperated, and, yes, wrathful Supreme Being comes down from heaven to rewrite the » The post Divine …
FRIDAY, APRIL 1 Still Life Dances: The program, a series of movement studies based on still life paintings from the de Young Museum, was created by Bay Area choreographers Lauren » The …
Nature and nurture are in conflict in "The How and the Why" — and not just the central conflict about female evolutionary biology at the heart of this cerebral two-character » The…
Former Supergrass bandleader Gaz Coombes is delighted that his tour " promoting his second solo album "Matador" (nominated for a Mercury Prize in his native England) is wending through the &…
It's too bad that not all storytelling theater pieces can have a soundtrack as eloquent as the one in "Second Time Around." Compositions by Jean Jeanrenaud of Kronos Quartet fame » The …
Steve Hackett's tour, "From Acolyte to Wolflight, plus Genesis classics (1970-1977)," which comes to the Warfield this week, is a marquee mouthful. But that's no surprise. The guitarist has …
The nature of shame, the power that perhaps can be found in not being "normal," and gay culture assimilating into the mainstream are among themes Z Space playwright-in-residence Peter Sinn &…
For nine years, Welsh power trio The Joy Formidable — led by commanding guitarist-vocalist Ritzy Bryan — seemed like an irresistible force, sweeping aside obstacles in its path a…
The New York-based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall this week with three programs for its annual residency — and what a glorious homecoming i…
The main character in Chicago writer Andrew Hinderaker's latest play, "Colossal" — a theater-dance drama in a West Coast premiere at San Francisco Playhouse — is a sort of Billy …
