“A Strange Loop” is a creative, disquieting, raunchy, and astonishing novel musical play. It’s no wonder it won the Pulitzer…
Following World War II, high-ranking Nazi Germany leaders were brought before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg to answer for…
I love La Traviata. It may not be the most sophisticated opera passion, but Verdi’s score and his heroine Violeta,…
“Philadelphia, Here I Come!” is the third play in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s Brian Friel season and, happily, it lives…
Bertolt Brecht’s “The Good Person of Setzuan” is a monster of a play to stage for contemporary audiences, it’s long,…
In the ongoing conversations about choreography that I shared with Fernando Alonso, architect of the Cuban ballet training system, he…
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum is lucky to house one of the most significant museum collections of Japanese prints…
True confessions of a theater critic: I saw neither the original production, nor have I seen the movie, Funny Girl….
Ensemble Studio Theatre’s newest production, “Las Borinqueñas,” is a fascinating look at the origin of the birth control pill. While…
American Ballet Theatre’s farm team, the Studio Company, is made up of 13 dancers age 17-21. These aren’t just any…
The de Young’s exciting retrospective of 20th-century photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009) highlights the broad breadth of this creative artist. Although…
Although I was unable to attend South by Southwest in person this year, I’ll hop aboard the hot 2024 publicist-thanking…
“The Far Country” opens a window on the widespread but under-the-radar practice of Chinese immigrants buying and selling their identities…
You don’t have to be an alarmist to feel that things in 2024 are dangerously out of whack. And if…