ACT presents an excerpt from Peter Brook's nine-hour "Mahabharata"
Emily S. MendelTheaterSan Francisco,
“Battlefield,” prodigious director Peter Brook’s unusual new offering, presents a small portion of the “Mahabharata," the ancient Sanskrit epic poem about the disastrous war between two branches of a large ruling family.
In 1987, Brook famously ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Christopher Wheeldon’s co-production with Dutch National Ballet of “Cinderella” is dance theater, conceived of in that genre’s finest tradition, but by no means limited by it. A marvelous scenic design team headed by costume and set designer Julian Crouch, ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
Dancers often collaborate with musicians as composers, accompanists and performers. We have seen many dances accompanied by pianists onstage, and sometimes small chamber groups. But Jaroslow/Mezzacappa’s “Touch Bass” brings three bass instruments together with three ...
Renata PoltArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
Don't feel embarrassed if you suddenly burst out laughing while viewing the Contemporary Jewish Museum's exhaustive--but not exhausting--show of Roz Chast's work. There will be plenty of other viewers doing the same thing.
Chast, for the ...
Joanna G. HarrisDanceSan Francisco,
“Everything is new and used..”
The above is a phrase Gordon uses to describe his fifty year adventure to remember, refresh, recall and present his efforts, ‘to mystify the relationship between an artist’s life and work.” “Live Archiveography” ...
Helgi Tomasson “Trio”
Myles Thatcher “Ghost in the Machine”
Christopher Wheeldon “In the Golden Hour”
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Helgi Tomasson created “Trio” in 2011. It proceeds from a sixth sense of what Tchaikovsky’s piece “Souvenir” proposed about the shape of a dance work. Tomasson abandoned the notion of a continuous motif in favor of three different ones. ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterSan Francisco,
Robert Lepage’s 1991 creative drama of transatlantic love, loss and foreign complications intersperses tales of American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1981) (outstanding Wellesley Robertson III) and French writer, playwright and filmmaker, Jean Cocteau (1889 –1963) (marvelous Olivier Normand) with a ...
San Francisco Ballet's full cargo of earth, wind and fire.
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
“It’s complicated,” Prince Siegfried (Joseph Walsh) might be inclined to confess, if asked to sum up his erotic inclinations. He celebrates his birthday while sharing a carousing bromance with his tutor, Wolfgang (Val Caniparoli), and appeasing his meddling Queen Mother ...
Janos GerebenFilmSan Francisco,
Sixty years doesn't seem a great length of time, but as the San Francisco International Film Festival is turning 60, it's holding a unique distinction of being the oldest such event in the Americas. (The world record ...
David E. MorenoDanceSan Francisco,
Choreographer Kate Weare’s “Giant” kicked off program one of a two-week run at YBCA called “Dance Downtown.” Her smart staging and choreography was handsomely matched by the lighting and scenic design of Matthew Antaky and by ...
