There's no way to escape the show's two zanies as they mime their way through a madcap hour of mayhem.
Suzanne WeissTheaterSan Francisco,
Bring your grandma, bring your kids! The occasional touch of blue or potty humor either will delight them or go right over their heads. So will performers Slater Penney and Jaron Hollander as they fly, climb or crawl through the ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
The fresh and exciting new exhibit at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (the CJM), displays 14 large pieces that combine art and technology by nine talented artists. Commissioned specifically for this exhibit, the work consists of fascinating and ...
A hit-and-miss new production is redeemed by terrific singing.
Suzanne WeissMusicSan Francisco,
Sometimes you gotta take the good with the bad, and San Francisco Opera’s new production of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” has plenty of both.
First the good news: the singing is pretty terrific and that’s what opera is ...
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
“Golden in time, cities under the sand. Power, ideas, and beauty fading in everyone’s hand…” Joni Mitchell
A stream of sand falls from heaven like smoke descending to earth. It continuously cascades in ...
St. Petersburg's renowned company stars in Alexei Ratmansky's updated production, played by an orchestra worthy of Prokofiev's score.
Suzanne WeissDanceSan Francisco,
You know the drill. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl loses slipper, boy finds girl and she gets, not only a husband, but a complete pair of shoes.
Everybody’s favorite fairy tale came to graceful and exuberant life ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
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Under the direction of Laura Elaine Ellis and Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, the Black Choreographers Festival has been mentoring, training and presenting black choreographers since 2005. This most ...
Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from Berthouville
Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
Two new exhibits at the impressive Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco displaying luxury goods are worthy of note. One is a retrospective of the work of the innovative watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet and his successors displaying more ...
A competent, if grim, presentation of Shakespeare's great tragedy features Anthony Heald in the title role.
Suzanne WeissTheaterSan Francisco,
Someone with nothing better to do once counted how many times the word “nothing” appears in Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” Having better things to do I have forgotten the total but it was a lot. All stemming from the protagonist’s early ...
An oddly bland staging of Verdi's tragedy opens the San Francisco Opera's fall season.
MusicSan Francisco,
In an irony that surely makes the god Momus snicker, San Francisco Opera bestowed its Opera Medal for Artistic Excellence upon director/designer Francesca Zambello in the same week that her production of "Luisa Miller" limped in as the opener of ...
This production makes the case for Sondheim's macabre masterwork as grand opera.
Suzanne WeissMusicSan Francisco,
I must confess I have always preferred my horror on an intimate scale. That means a television set rather than a multiplex and, most particularly, Stephen Sondheim’s macabre masterwork, “Sweeney Todd,” as a chamber opera, rather than a Broadway musical. ...
