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When the curtain goes down on 42nd Street Moon's new production of "The Boys from Syracuse," it will not only signal the end of the show, but the end of »
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Michael Joseph Nelson, who brings his current project Banners to The City next week, first took the stage as a child, wearing a furry brown costume with horns. "I was »
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The design of one of two plaques San Francisco plans to install to commemorate the boyhood homes of The City's native son Jerry Garcia, the lead guitarist for the Grateful »
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The title of Terrence McNally's "Mothers and Sons" (now at New Conservatory Theatre Center in a regional premiere) is a bit of a misnomer. It's actually about one very particular »
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Playwright Will Eno has a brilliant way of manipulating language to probe the heart of the human experience, at least as seen in the current production of his four-hander, "The »
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Caroline Polachek of the alterna-pop duo Chairlift has been busy for the past few years. She released a solo album (under the name Ramona Lisa), composed runway scores for fashion »
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The best part of Justin Bieber's concert Thursday at the SAP Arena in San Jose was when he invited a young woman onstage to tie his floppy blond hair back »
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If the recent death of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee engenders a nostalgic hunger to revisit her seminal work, the production of "To Kill a Mockingbird" at Hillbarn Theatre will &…
Thousands of Chinese helped build the American West, but their personal stories are barely known outside their own families. "Golden Gate," a multimedia theater work that celebrates its worl…
When Canadian harpist, accordionist and keyboardist Loreena McKennitt released three albums on her own Quinlan Road imprint and was signing to Warner Bros. for her fourth, "The Visit," in th…
Philadelphia-bred Aaron Livingston says it's occasionally confusing when fans greet him as Son Little, the neo-soul alter ego he created three years ago after signing to ANTI-Records. But wi…
About 30 minutes into his nearly 3 ½ hour concert at the Oracle Arena in Oakland on Sunday, Bruce Springsteen surfed the crowd during a great sing-along version of "Hungry »
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Everybody has a back story, but few are quite as interesting as the Wicked Witch of the West's. The sorceress finally gets her due in "Wicked," the wonderful musical at »
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With plenty of tulle, glitter and living dolls, San Francisco Ballet's happy production of "Coppélia" hides a dark core. Léo Delibes' lively score, choreography by George Balanchine and Al…
Being onstage before a crowd of strangers hasn't been an issue for comic Emily Heller, an Alameda native headlining three nights at the Punch Line during Women in Comedy month. »
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Peter Frampton has fans like Matt Groening and Seth MacFarlane, who have included animated versions of the British rock star on "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy." But he has a »
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A decade ago, it was rare to see female performers at the Punch Line and Cobb's Comedy Club, The City's flagship comedy venues. But things are slowly starting to change. »
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It might seem like things are happening at lightning speed for 24-year-old British folk-rocker Jack Garratt. He released his debut album "Phase," won a Critics Choice BRIT Award and BBC …
San Francisco Opera's new venture, called SF Opera Lab, is admittedly small. "One of the keys is the intimacy. Historically, San Francisco Opera produced grand-scale opera, and we have a …
Personal and political issues come to the fore in funny, fascinating and provocative ways in "The Call," a thoroughly engaging play by Tanya Barfield exploring the intricate relationships an…
Tony Award-nominee Emily Skinner is becoming a very welcome presence on The City's performing arts scene. She led a revival of Stephen Sondheim's seldom performed "Do I Hear a Waltz?" »…
Natalie Merchant wants to clarify that she's not repeating herself. The former 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman had great artistic reasons to release last year's "Paradise Is There: The New Tigerli…
San Francisco Performances' administrator Christine Lim admits that the first of the group's new, four-concert PIVOT series will be weird. "It's going to be crazy … and crazy fun," says &#…
New Jersey-born composer Charlie Puth has been through a headspinning two months. He had the hit "Marvin Gaye" with Meghan Trainor and sat next to Robert De Niro at the »
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Do go to see Word for Word's text-verbatim staging of two short stories by Irish-born writers Emma Donoghue and Colm TóibÃn, but don't expect anything like the Oscar-nominated films ba…
