Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Program 03’s curator has posed several challenges as well as questions for the reviewer. Three contemporary story ballets overload one program. It takes at least two viewings to appreciate them in a filmed format. Two of the three, "Symphony ...
Filmed play streaming on-demand through April 3rd, 2021
Emily S. MendelEtcSan Francisco,
The streaming production of “[hieroglyph]” is the story of a bright, artistic, but traumatized 13-year-old girl, Davis (outstandingly impressive work by Jamella Cross), who had to leave New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. While her mother remained in a FEMA ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
San Francisco’s newly re-opened de Young Museum is hosting the first American showing of a major exhibition, “Calder-Picasso.” It’s an exciting view of more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs investigating the surprising affinities between Alexander Calder (American, ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
It’s rare to see a Balanchine-choreographed story ballet, let alone one featuring a plotline as serpentine as Shakespeare’s impishly comic “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In this interpretation, Shakespeare and Balanchine conspire to lampoon all manner of hierarchy, tasking the prankster ...
Paula FarmerFilmSan Francisco,
Film festivals in the time of Corona Virus are varied and limited. Some festivals chose to cancel altogether for this year, while a few, like the New York Film Festival, went completely virtual. The Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
After six endlessly long months of closure, four San Francisco Museums, the de Young Museum (opening September 25, 2020), the Asian Art Museum (October 3, 2020), SFMOMA (October 4, 2020), and The Contemporary Jewish Museum (October 17, 2020) are ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterSan Francisco,
Talented playwright Madhuri Shekar won the “2013-14 Kendeda Graduate Playwrighting Contest” for the engaging rom-com “In Love and Warcraft,” and it has been successfully produced around the United States ever since. The tender two-act play (2 hours, including one ...
Renata PoltArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
Aw shoot! I forgot to wear my new tight-fitting black Levi’s to the Levi’s show! But then, I was so surrounded by Levi’s history, paraphernalia, photographs, pants, and all things Levi’s that it didn’t really matter. ...
Maya Beiser, Wendy Whelan, Lucinda Childs, David Lang
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
“I remember the day…” On the surface, “THE DAY” is a multilayered performance with iconoclastic cellist Maya Beiser and retired ballerina turned dance experimentalist, Wendy Whelan. This collaborative project, done in two parts, is the inspiration ...
David E. MorenoTheaterSan Francisco,
When an artist has reached superstardom, it is difficult to take a new direction without being compared to who they were and what they once achieved. But their fame and name recognition will draw fans to their most recent ...
![The cast of [hieroglyph] (L-R): Safiya Fredericks, Khary L. Moye, Jamella Cross, and Anna Marie Sharpe. Presented by San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre,](http://culturevulture.net/wp-content/plugins/mindshare-api-master/lib/mthumb.php?src=https://culturevulture.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hieroglyph_Jessica-Palopoli16-scaled-1.jpg&w=200&h=200&q=90&a=c&zc=1&f=&s=0&cc=&ct=1 "The cast of [hieroglyph] (L-R): Safiya Fredericks, Khary L. Moye, Jamella Cross, and Anna Marie Sharpe. Presented by San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre,")
