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As composer John Adams calls his 1988 work "Fearful Symmetries" a "seriously aerobic piece," it's easy to understand why it's been used for many ballets, and why Royal Ballet choreographer &…
Long before he released his Billy Joel-evocative debut EP "Headlights" last year, fans, friends and family were dubbing New York City keyboardist Tor Miller an old soul, a musician who »…
Mix a 17th-century Italian folk tale with 21st-century matchmaking technology, shake with a lot of earnest energy and you get "Tinderella," the new musical at the PianoFight-resident FautLin…
Grammy-winning British soul stylist Seal can't help that he's sensitive, and that sadness others might shrug off often hits him hard. His latest effort, "7," is among his most serious »…
Unlike its predecessors, "Kung Fu Panda 3" is a Chinese-American co-production, which co-directors Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh Nelson and co-producer Melissa Cobb " who recently visi…
"Whoa-Man!" is an avant-garde clown show that highlights the fool character to show audiences what's true. That's the aim of Maya Lane, founder of the performance troupe Fou Fou Ha!, »
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Benji Hughes took eight years to release "Songs in the Key of Animals," the followup to his whimsical 25-track debut in 2008, "A Love Extreme." But don't worry about the »
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Jennifer Haley's 2012 award-winner, "The Nether," is deceptively formulaic at first: In a claustrophobic, nondescript gray room, a terse law enforcement officer is aggressively interrogating…
At first, fans might not recognize her from her solo-project sobirquet, the lower-case jennylee, as seen on last year's similarly lower-case "right on!" It's Warpaint bassist Jenny Lee Lindb…
"Jersey Boys" is here to stay. A decade after Broadway smash about the rise of the 1960s pop group The Four Seasons began its national tour at the Curran Theatre, »
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At the beginning of Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout's "Satchmo at the Waldorf," a 2010 one-actor play now at American Conservatory Theater, the great jazz musician Louis Ar…
What do you get when you mix choreographers Helgi Tomasson, Yuri Possokhov and William Forsythe in a program? One of the most diverse and satisfying concerts given by San Francisco »
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San Francisco Ballet opened its 83rd season Thursday with lovely classics and lots of couples in a show not quite as "Provocative" as its one-word title promised. Playing to the »
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A virtuoso pianist, singer, actor and playwright, Canadian-born Hershey Felder has for years been charming audiences with his solo "musical plays" about composers George Gershwin, Beethoven,…
The Bay Area's ultra rich theater community presents old favorites, world premieres, comedies, musicals and more. Gem of the Ocean: Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, the play begins August Wilson's 10…
The Bay Area's dynamic performing arts troupes present music and dance, both classic and contemporary. The Odyssey"from Vietnam to America: The piece by Emmy Award-winning composer Vân-Å
London-bred Haelos vocalist Lotti Benardout can claim several gifted relatives, like an aunt who sings professionally and a grandmother in Arkansas renowned for penning advertising jingles a…
Even though the struggling artist's caveat warns against giving up your day job, Charles Michael Parks Jr. , who anchors neo-psychedelic Nashville quartet All Them Witches, had no choice two…
There's definitely a heartache tonight. Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, who, with Don Henley, became one of rock's most successful songwriting teams with hits such as as "Hotel California" and…
Choreographer Hervé Koubi's dance "What the Day Owes to the Night" is an intensely personal journey. "I had to give life to my orientalist dreams. … I had to do »
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As the mastermind behind eclectic U.K. ensemble The Go! Team, Ian Parton is nearing the level occupied by visionaries the likes of Phil Spector and the late Joe Meek — »
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Two years ago, things were not going too well for folk-rock duo HoneyHoney. After two initially promising record deals fell apart, Benjamin Jaffe and Suzanne Santo were struggling to complet…
Josephine Vander Gucht is not a hypnologist. But with Anthony West, her partner in the British dream-pop duo Oh Wonder, she has compiled enough research on sleep and its rejuvenating »
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There's always an interesting discussion among David Bowie fans when the question "When did you first discover his music?" crops up. The question's significant because Bowie albums, for fans…
San Francisco Opera will offer new productions — including a world premiere tailor-made to draw attendance from the Bay Area's large Chinese-American community, as well as restaged pre…
