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Australian singer Sam Bentley reluctantly admits he still lives at home with his folks in Melbourne, even though his ethereal folk-rock outfit The Paper Kites has released two critically-acc…
"Art must always be dangerous," a theater-loving German POW camp commander tells Harry, a young American prisoner, in Theatre Rhinoceros' new play by John Fisher, "Shakespeare Goes to War." …
Ruth Felt, founder of San Francisco Performances, is about to step down after 36 years. The esteemed arts presenter, responsible for local recital debuts of cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinists Anne…
A woman who gets to go in both directions at a major fork in her life's road is the central theme of the musical "If/Then," written by Tony Award-winners Brian »
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Elizabeth Irwin's "My Mañana Comes" brings to light what goes on behind the scenes at a high-class Manhattan eatery. And it ends with a big, effective jolt that clearly illustrates »…
Ryn Weaver broke out with the 2014 viral hit "OctaHate." It's been a long, serpentine trip for San Diego-bred singer Ryn Weaver, who issued her charming debut "The Fool" this »
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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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Actor Jeff Daniels has won an Emmy for his shrewd performance as news anchor Will McAvoy in HBO's Aaron-Sorkin-scripted "The Newsroom," and throughout his four-decade-long film and Broadway …
Dance 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 »
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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 undergoing six…
In his parallel life as an actor, operatic-timbred vocalist Josh Groban never shies away from zany roles. He played Miss Piggy's love interest on a recent episode of TV's reboot »
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Sometimes musicians need a little outside affirmation to convince them that they have a band. Producer-multi-instrumentalist Mike Del Rio, employed by Alex Da Kid, was sculpting pop songs fo…
With his family band The Jonas Brothers, Joe Jonas had a Disney Channel series and sold over 17 million albums. So he found it frustrating and confusing when his 2011 »
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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. "Wh…
Haven't made Halloween plans yet? Here are a few suggestions: THURSDAY, OCT. 29 Scare on the Square: Holiday activities include a costume parade, cash-prize carved pumpkin contest (bring you…
"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," the …
For Thomas Adès, Chopin is the composer who showed him the secrets and true possibilities of the piano. "He's the No. 1 piano composer for me. Listening to his music, »
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In his only comedy, "Ah, Wilderness!," written in 1932 in the midst of the Depression but set in 1906, the normally dour playwright Eugene O'Neill was imagining a young man's »
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Singer-songwriter Nils Lofgren enjoys keeping up with his old pals. A few years ago, driving through his new hometown in Arizona, his cellular rang. It was his former employer Neil »
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Roches-rustic outfit Girlpool " guitarist-vocalist Cleo Tucker and bassist-vocalist Harmony Tividad " didn't set out to track their debut "Before the World Was Big" as a drum-less duo. They …
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-specific piece …
Mozart'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 concep…
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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In America, British singer Florence Welch has become well-known not just for her elegiac music, but for her chic-designer-empowered fashion sense that has landed her in magazines in both "be…
In 2012, an artistic collaboration was the last thing on Iowa-based folksinger Iris DeMent's mind. She was busily recording, then touring behind, "Sing the Delta," her first album of origina…
