An opera based on a Poe short story had its American premiere at the War Memorial Opera House recently. With…
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John Sullivan has been an editor and writer for newspapers, magazines, and websites on both coasts since the 1980s, including the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, and an online start-up for the Wall Street Journal. He resides on his ranch in Northern California.
To the many interpretations of “The Magic Flute,” San Francisco Opera has added one with the distinction of looking like…
In an irony that surely makes the god Momus snicker, San Francisco Opera bestowed its Opera Medal for Artistic Excellence…
“Swimmer,” the latest work by Yuri Possokhov, San Francisco Ballet’s choreographer in residence, looks more like dance theater than true…
When San Francisco Ballet undertook “Shostakovich Trilogy” in 2014, many observers held their breath. Could the company pull off this…
There’s something of a puppeteer at play in “Manifesto,” Myles Thatcher’s impressive new work for San Francisco Ballet. Dancers emerge…
Like Odette/Odile in “Swan Lake,” the title role in “Giselle” requires not only technical mastery but also (and more crucially)…
Sometimes a good documentary merely confirms what is generally feared to be true. But as any government official (or journalist)…
Near the end of Act I of this decidedly comic British production of “Partenope,” in its company premiere at San…
While America frets over a potential Ebola outbreak in Texas, another crisis already plagues the country’s health-care system: bacteria that…
Choreographers past and present were on display in two recent programs from San Francisco Ballet, and their defining styles (or…
Michael Anderson and Krystel Lucas (foreground, left and right) in The Old Globe’s “The Merchant of Venice”Photo by Michael Lamont…
Michael McKean in “Yes, Prime Minister” at the Geffen PlayhousePhoto by Michael Lamont ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ By Antony Jay and…
‘George Gershwin Alone’ Book by Hershey FelderMusic and lyrics by George and Ira GershwinDirected by Joel ZwickBerkeley Repertory TheatreJune 8-July…