Thursday, November 5, 2015
There are hundreds of choruses in the Bay Area, but only one professional group singing a cappella music from all periods of the choral repertoire. That’s the niche Cappella SF »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:05AMDance Theatre of San Francisco’s Dexandro “D” Montalvo is nothing short of ecstatic in his new gig as artistic director of the young contemporary ballet troupe. “It’s a dream of &#…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
As advertised, Megan Timpane’s one-woman show “Having Cancer is Hilarious” isn’t a downer. Telling her story of being diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 22, then unde…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 11:05PMThursday, October 29, 2015
The thing vocalist Lisa Fischer is enjoying most about her upcoming world-premiere collaboration with San Francisco-based choreographer Alonzo King is the freedom permeating the project. “…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:26PMWednesday, October 28, 2015
“Arctic Requiem,” an intimate world premiere based on true events, is educational, evocative, and, perhaps most important, entertaining. Subtitled “The Story of Luke Cole and Kivalina,…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 11:23PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
Despite the lofty title, there aren’t many huge revelations about the nature of space in Joe Goode Performance Group’s newest production “Poetics of Space.” Granted, the site-specifi…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 09:00PMMozart’s “The Magic Flute” is filled with allegorical elements that deftly disguised taboo subjects of his era, such as reigning monarchs, the shadowy order of the Freemasons, and the …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 08:54PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
It’s really hard to determine exactly which part of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” tour, which hit San Jose’s SAP Center on Monday night, was the best. Was it when she emerged »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 02:47PMThursday, October 15, 2015
Three dynamic performers comprise “Heromonster,” a one-of-kind production, both earthly and other-worldly, in the chapel at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. The piece is the latest c…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:15AMFriday, October 9, 2015
After San Francisco Opera opened its 2015-16 season with “Luisa Miller,” in which a meddlesome man interferes with the happiness of his relative, and proceeded to the musical thriller �…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 01:04PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Choreographer Rosy Simas admits that “We Wait in the Darkness,” a solo piece based on her grandmother’s struggles as a Native American, isn’t happy. Yet the process of telling its &#…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMMonday, September 28, 2015
A love story with unorthodox, yet real, characters is a rare thing – and “Dogfight” is one of them. San Francisco Playhouse began its 13th season (“It’s our bar mitzvah,” »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:55PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Stars and show tunes sparkled in Davies Symphony Hall on opening night of the San Francisco Symphony’s 104th season. While festivities typically are high and programs are light at the …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01PMThursday, September 24, 2015
Now entering its second decade in a new format, Tuesday Night Live! Comedy is an extraordinary hybrid. “We don’t have a drink minimum and the audience faces the stage,” says »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:01AMudging by the new short plays comprising the first segment of its 2015 ReOrient Festival, Bay Area theater troupe Golden Thread Productions is clearly fulfilling its mission to offer compell…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:01AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
Smuin Ballet has begun its 22nd season with a joyful, contemporary yet classic program including ready-to-watch again world premieres. Among them is choreographer-in-residence Amy Seiwert’…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
San Francisco city officials and veterans gathered on Wednesday to celebrate and rededicate the War Memorial Veterans Building, the Civic Center’s historic 1932 Beaux Arts structure newly …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 08:37PMMonday, September 14, 2015
On Saturday, a thoroughly bloody affair supplanted Friday’s tragic affair at San Francisco Opera’s first production of “Sweeney Todd.” Unlike the relatively pale staging of the previ…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 02:15PMThursday, September 3, 2015
The title of lesbian comic Karen Ripley’s solo show “Oh No There’s Men On The Land” comes from her remembrances of attending the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival decades ago. It …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 02:30PMBay area stages will be filled with performing artists of local, national and international acclaim — dance, sing and play on! Chick Corea: SFJAZZ opens its season with the piano »…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 02:22PMThe Bay Area’s ultra rich theater community presents old favorites, Broadway hits, world premieres, comedies, musicals and more. Amélie: Samantha Banks (of “Les Miserables” fame) star…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 02:09PMSunday, August 23, 2015
Guitar great George Cole’s upcoming gig at Yoshi’s centering on the music of Nat King Cole stems from a suggestion made by mandolin master David Grisman. “My day job is »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Edgy arts presenter CounterPulse is on a big journey, moving from its scrappy home at Mission and Ninth streets to a spiffy renovated site in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Earlier this »…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:15AMThursday, June 4, 2015
by Leslie Katz
High anxiety appealingly fuels every page of San Francisco’s writer Vendela Vida’s new novel “The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty.”
The journey of a 30-somethi…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:00AM 
