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  • Opera: THE CENTENNIAL SEASON REVEALED (SF Opera)

    By Jim Allen | January 19, 2022
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    The 2022–23 Season FRI, SEP 9, 2022 AT 8PM Don’t miss  Opera Ball: The Centennial Celebration, an evening of music and delight that honors San Francisco Opera’s first 100 years and sets the stage for an exciting second century. Please note the  Opening Night Concert  is sold as part of  Opera Ball and is not in any subscription series….

  • Film: THAT COLD DEAD LOOK IN YOUR EYES (written and directed by Onur Tukel)

    By Jim Allen | November 6, 2021
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    Following the success of  Death Drop Gorgeous, DARK STAR PICTURES have another wildly fun multi-genre hybrid coming up-  THAT COLD DEAD LOOK IN YOUR EYES. The newest film from acclaimed director Onur Tukel (Catfight, Summer of Blood), and featuring Nora Arnezeder (Army of the Dead,  Upcoming series “The Offer”) and Max Casella (The Tender Bar, “The Sopranos”), THAT…

  • Opera Opening: FIDELIO (Live & Virtual, San Francisco Opera)

    By Jim Allen | October 4, 2021
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    TO BREAK FREE, SHE HAD TO BREAK IN San Francisco Opera’s return to live performances in the War Memorial Opera House continues October 14–30 with a bold, new production of Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio. Caroline H. Hume Music Director  Eun Sun Kim conducts this monumental work in which love and courage overcome tyranny. Director  Matthew…

  • Theater Opening: ASCENSION (Echo Theater Company)

    By Jim Allen | September 29, 2021
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    Ascension is an interactive, sci-fi,  futuristic cyber  play Do you know about it? The Second Sun? It’s real. It’s going to take you home. The Echo Theater Company  presents the world premiere of  Ascension   a sci-fi mystery thriller written by  D.G. Watson  and directed by Echo associate artistic director  Ahmed Best. Performances take place  on  Tuesdays,  Wednesdays  and  Thursdays  Oct. 6  through  Nov. 18, 2021 at  Atwater Village Theatre. One preview…

  • Opera: FREE OPERA STREAMS IN AUGUST (San Francisco Opera)

    By Jim Allen | August 6, 2021
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    SAN FRANCISCO OPERA’S FREE OPERA STREAMS IN AUGUST Wagner’s  Die Meistersinger von Ní¼rnberg  August 7–8 Donizetti’s  Roberto Devereux  August 14–15 San Francisco Opera is returning to the War Memorial Opera House stage for the opening of its 99th season, which begins with Puccini’s Tosca on August 21. In anticipation, the Company has added two weekly, free opera streams for…

  • Film: BOTTLE MONSTER (directed by Marjorie DeHey)

    By Jim Allen | July 27, 2021
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    A MONSTER LURKS IN THE BOTTLE … AND THE DARK The psychological thriller/horror movie “Bottle Monster” centers around the anti-heroine Allison Keys, who struggles to raise her young son while trying unsuccessfully to fight her addiction to alcohol. Alison’s world crumbles as she tries to flee her life, only to come face-to-face with a real-life…

  • Music: SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY (Live Concerts, Davies Hall)

    By Jim Allen | May 20, 2021
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    The San Francisco Symphony will be increasing audience capacities for live concerts at Davies Symphony Hall in May and June, 2021, following the City’s approval of the Symphony’s Health & Safety Plan. Audience capacities for performances on May 13–June 25 will be increased to 35% of Davies Symphony Hall’s total capacity. There will be two…

  • Virtual Dance: HELGI TOMASSON’S SWAN LAKE (SF Ballet)

    By Jim Allen | May 18, 2021
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    San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) is presenting Helgi Tomasson’s Swan Lake from May 20 to June 9, 2021, closing SF Ballet’s 2021 Digital Season. The archival capture from 2016 stars Principal Dancers Yuan Yuan Tan as Odette-Odile and Tiit Helimets as Prince Siegfried. Swan Lake  offers standout roles for the corps of 30 swans and Odette-Odile,…

  • Virtual Theatrical Event: COMMUNION (A.C.T. in San Francisco)

    By Jim Allen | May 15, 2021
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    American Conservatory Theater  (A.C.T.) is stretching the theatrical landscape with  the world premiere production of Obie Award–winning Bay Area playwright  Christopher Chen’s virtual play,  Communion.  It’s a thrilling interactive theatrical event on Zoom which is performed live May 28–June 27, 2021 for a limited number of attendees at each performance. It will feature Bay Area favorite Stacy Ross in her…

  • Film: FRAMELINE45 FILM FESTIVAL (Pride Night and more)

    By Jim Allen | May 15, 2021
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    FRAMELINE45 FILM FESTIVAL JUNE 10–27, 2021 NOW WITH VIRTUAL SCREENINGS NATIONWIDE Frameline’”the world’s longest–running and largest showcase of queer cinema’”returns this year with Frameline45: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, running  June 10–27, 2021. Slated to be the most attended and longest festival in Frameline history, this year’s offerings will include a mix of in–person…

  • Cabaret: FEINSTEIN’S AT THE NIKKO (San Francisco’s Premier Nightclub Re-Opens This Week)

    By Jim Allen | May 15, 2021
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    FEINSTEIN’S AT THE NIKKO ANNOUNCES REOPENING WITH LINEUP OF FAN FAVORITES, BROADWAY STARS, AND LOCAL ICONS Following a year of shuttered doors, Feinstein’s at the Nikko  announced today they will reopen later this month with a lineup of fan favorites, Broadway stars, and local icons who will take the stage at San Francisco’s premier nightclub. Tickets…

  • Theater: AN OCTOROON (Fountain Theatre Live)

    By Jim Allen | May 11, 2021
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    Casting is complete and rehearsals have begun for the  Los Angeles premiere of a radical, incendiary and subversively funny Obie award-winning play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Performances of  An Octoroon  will inaugurate the  new outdoor stage  at  The Fountain Theatre  on  June 18 after four public previews. Performances will continue through Sept. 19, 2021. Judith Moreland  directs Jacobs-Jenkins’s outrageous deconstruction of a moustache-twirling melodrama by…

  • Theatre: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: LIVE IN HD (Directed by and starring Brian Bedford)

    By Jim Allen | April 28, 2021
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    L.A. Theatre Works is  bringing back Roundabout’s critically acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by and starring Brian Bedford and filmed live in HD. Previously shown in movie theaters across the country, The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD  is being made available to home viewers for the first…

  • Extras: 5 Movies for Students to Get Into Korean Cinematography

    By Jim Allen | April 16, 2021
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    South Korean cinematography has a long and rich history that goes back to the mid-twentieth century. And while there have always been some devoted movie lovers who never missed a good Korean production, the wider audience only got interested in this Asian country’s films after 2019.   That year was triumphant for Korean cinematography, bringing the…

  • Theater: CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OPENS (Children’s Musical Theater San Jose

    By Jim Allen | April 15, 2021
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    Children’s Musical Theater San Jose (CMT) Announces Grand Opening of New Creative Arts Center CMT, the nationally-acclaimed theater company honored 12 times by the National Endowment for the Arts and the oldest operating performing arts organization in San Jose, announced today the opening of its new Creative Arts Center. Known for providing the highest quality…

  • Theater: A.C.T. OUT LOUD: Alice Childress’s ‘Trouble in Mind’; Shaw’s ‘Arms and the Man’; Wilder’s ‘The Matchmaker’)

    By Jim Allen | March 29, 2021
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    Beginning tonight, A.C.T. begins its Out Loud series, which features a series of enduring play readings by some of the greatest minds of generations past. It begins tonight with Alice Childress’s  Trouble  in  Mind, running through April 4, 2021. The two other productions that will be part of the series are George Bernard Shaw’s  Arms and the Man, (April…

  • Events: THE BEST OF CHICAGO STREAMING FOR FREE (The Harris’s Resident Companies)

    By Jim Allen | March 15, 2021
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    Chicago’s Harris Theater is a home venue for more than 20 not-for-profit arts and culture organizations. Now, you don’t have to go to Chicago to see these thrilling events. This rich collective — all available to stream with a free account — brings engaging and exciting programming to you via their Virtual Stage program. Below…

  • Opera: RING FESTIVAL (San Francisco Opera)

    By Jim Allen | March 4, 2021
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    RING FESTIVAL March 5–30 Wagner’s  Ring  Cycle Streams in March Accompanied by Live  Ring Festival  Virtual Events Featuring Special Guests Daniel Brenna (Siegfried) and Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde) in Wagner’s Siegfried (streaming March 20–21) Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), in Francesca Zambello’s “boldly contemporary” (The New York Times) staging, a co-production with Washington National…

  • Theater: WHAT WILL I BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? (The Marsh)

    By Jim Allen | March 4, 2021
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    THE MARSH PRESENTS GEOFF HOYLE’S WHAT WILL I BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? Written and Performed by Geoff Hoyle Developed and Directed by David Ford 7:00pm, Saturday, March 20, 2021 Geoff Hoyle didn’t get hit by a bus in his 30s, didn’t have a heart attack in his 50s, didn’t get frontotemporal dementia or COVID-19…

  • Dance: MIXED REPERTORY PROGRAM #3 (San Francisco Ballet)

    By Jim Allen | March 4, 2021
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    SAN  FRANCISCO BALLET’S MIXED REPERTORY PROGRAM #3 OPENS TONIGHT The world premiere of Danielle Rowe’s roaring ’20s dance film Wooden Dimes, the return of Yuri Possokhov’s fan-favorite Swimmer and Alexei Ratmansky’s powerful Symphony #9 make up Program 03, which starts tonight, March 4, 2021, and runs through March 24. Sign up to stream for $29   on…

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