This time-bending musical, with its terrific cast of two, perfectly chronicles the rise and fall (and fall and rise) of a star-crossed marriage.
Suzanne WeissTheaterSan Francisco,
At the moment Jamie meets Cathy, she already has lost him. That’s the time-bending conceit of Jason Robert Brown’s terrific little musical, “The Last Five Years,” newly opened at A.C.T. in San Francisco. Brown tells the tale, mostly in ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
Almost three years from the date of its closing, the greatly enlarged and revitalized SFMOMA is reopening to almost universal oohs and aahs, with of course, a few negatives among a small handful of naysayers. But don’t count ...
Michael McDonaghMusicSan Francisco,
Solo piano recitals aren't that frequent even in a fairly sophisticated town like San Francisco. Sure, we have them at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and high profile international pianists presented by SF Performances. But the only real venue ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
John Cranko’s “Onegin,” closed a banner San Francisco Ballet season, with feature roles danced by a cast both new and old— or as a Girl Scout might put it, “One is silver and the other’s gold.”
Cranko’s corps ...
Michael McDonaghArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
Appearances are deceiving or are they? When we see something for the first time do we really see it and if so can we see it again as if for the first time? Can beauty be pinned down like ...
Suzanne WeissMusicSan Francisco,
Most operas begin with an overture. Peter Maxwell Davies’ “The Lighthouse” opens with an interrogation, a police investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse-keepers stuck for months on a lonely rock in the middle of a stormy ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Alonzo King’s “Sand” premiered in this program. It’s redundant to speak of breakthroughs when it comes to King’s choreography. With each new season and collaboration, there’s an epiphany and the refinements that make it sing its name. It usually originates ...
Celebrating Principal Dancers Joan Boada, Pascal Molat, and Gennadi Nedvigin
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
They call themselves “The Three Musketeers” because they have traveled a long road together at San Francisco Ballet, and before SFB, with Jeunes Ballets de France. The first one picked up the second to arrive at San ...
Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
Coney Island’s Cyclone was the scariest ride in Kings County (the jurisdiction more popularly known as Brooklyn), until 1960, when New York City fathers built something scarier: the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (the BQE). In the 1953 film “The Little Fugitive, we ...
House HunterHouse PornSan Francisco,
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Behind the white picket fence is a home steeped in San Francisco history. The sellers state that at one time the house was owned by the grandparents of Beach Blanket Babylon creator Steve Silver. These current ...
