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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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"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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 …
