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Theater Review: A PICTURE OF TWO BOYS (New Conservatory Theatre Center)
San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theater is known for encouraging and developing new artists, actors and directors. This month the new Director in Residence Richard A. Mosqueda is debuting the World Premiere of A Picture of Two Boys by Nick Malakhow. Set in a small town in rural Pennsylvania it’s about the unlikely friendship between two…
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Theater Review: AUNT JACK (New Conservatory Theatre Center)
AUNTIE JACK MAME PANSEXUAL: relating to having, or open to sexual activity of many kinds. POLYAMOROUS: the practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships with more than one partner with the consent of all partners involved. FLUIDITY: the quality of not being solid and able to flow. Joseph Alvarado, Nick Trengove, and Jennifer McGeorge Joseph…
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Free Opera Streaming: STREAMING THE FIRST CENTURY (San Francisco Opera)
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA RELEASES SECOND INSTALLMENT OF STREAMING THE FIRST CENTURY FOCUSING ON FRENCH REPERTOIRE Streaming the First Century, SFO’s free online hub for historic recordings and interviews, has released Session 2: Parlez-vous français? (schedule below). This new installment, the second of four releases scheduled for fall 2022, features performances of French repertory from the Company’s…
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Recommended Classical Concert: Conductor JURAJ VALÄŒUHA & Pianist BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV (SF Symphony at Davies Hall)
COME HEAR ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT PIANISTS Conductor Juraj ValÄuha returns to lead the San Francisco Symphony in music by Hannah Kendall, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Sergei Prokofiev, November 3, 4 & 6, 2022 at Davies Symphony Hall. Opening the program is the SF Symphony premiere of Hannah Kendall’s The Spark Catchers, commissioned and premiered…
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Highly Recommended Jazz Album Review: HUBUB! (Ted Kooshian)
I’LL TELL YOU WHAT THE HUBUB! IS ALL ABOUT: FUN I just returned from the 2022 Monerey Jazz Festival, and as you can guess the players were magnificent. Not so the compositions, though. Highly experimental is great; after all, that’s what makes jazz, well, jazz. But much of the weekend was fusion, ya know jazz…
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Music Review: 65TH MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL
EVEN WITH CHANGES DUE TO COVID, THE MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL SOARS One of the joys of the Monterey Jazz Festival is discovery. Sure, you’ll get to hear some great professional talent, but a lot of up and coming high school and college talent. The 65th gathering may still not be up to snuff after that…
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Theater Review: ALWAYS, PATSY CLINE (Center Rep at Lesher Center in Walnut Creek)
A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY Patsy Cline couldn’t be more fondly or accurately recalled than by Cayman Ilika in Karen Lund’s sweet production of Always:Patsy Cline, the oft-produced 1990 paean to the once and future crossover country icon who made audiences “fall to pieces.” Written and originally directed by Ted Swindley, this tribute — equal…
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Theater Review: KINKY BOOTS (Ray of Light Theatre)
THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR FUN Kinky Boots: The Musical is back in San Francisco, again at the Victoria Theater for a month-long run. Based on the same-titled 2005 film written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth, the hit Broadway musical with songs by Cyndi Lauper and book by Harvey Fierstein tells the story of…
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Theater Review: GODDESS (World Premiere Musical at Berkeley Rep)
ONE TOUCH OF GODDESS Goddess, the exciting new musical at Berkeley Rep with its sights set for Broadway, re-imagines the African myth of Marimba: the goddess of music. In order to experience real love, the goddess has come down from the heavens as Nadira (Amber Iman, who raises the roof with every note) to live…
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Music Reviews: PINK MARTINI / BERNADETTE PETERS (San Francisco Symphony)
SUMMER AT THE SYMPHONY 2 In their 25+ years as a fourteen member full “little orchestra,” Pink Martini has established a reputation for clever, daring, sophisticated and delightful music. The San Francisco Symphony provided an excellent opportunity for Pink Martini to perk up a news-weary public with some much needed color and sunshine. Did they…
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Concert Reviews: GET HAPPY: A JUDY GARLAND CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION / FOURTH WITH FIREWORKS (SF Symphony)
SF Symphony, Summer 2022 The San Francisco Symphony is no doubt ecstatic to welcome people back to live performances this summer in all of their venues. Davies Symphony Hall, Stern Grove and The Shoreline Amphitheatre all have full schedules of terrific performers to treat everyone this summer. There is definitely something for every age and…
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Theater Review: THE EMPIRE STRIPS BACK (Great Star Theater)
MAY THE TORSO BE WITH YOU Forget about Broadway or the latest Marvel Comic movie. The fun, hip and cool burlesque Star Wars parody — which isn’t just for fans of the franchise — is the show to see this summer live onstage in San Francisco. No stranger to SF, Burlesque started in the nineteenth…
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Theater Review: FOLLIES (SF Playhouse)
FANTASTIC FOLLIES AT SF PLAYHOUSE After over 2 years of all of us being confined at home watching endless hours of shows on Netflix sitting in our sweatpants, we’re all chomping at the bit to get dressed up and see live theater. Yet because of COVID, San Francisco’s first onstage adaptation of the musical Follies had a…
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Music Recommendation: 32nd SAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST
An Electrifying Artist Lineup For One of the Summer’s Major SF Bay Area Music Festivals Friday, August 12 – Sunday, August 14, 2022 Plaza de César Chavez Park, Downtown San Jose, Calif. Tickets On Sale Now (Tickets: $30 – $170/Day; $75 – $495/3-Day Passes; $10/Children 5-12) Silicon Valley’s premier annual music event,  San Jose Jazz Summer…
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Theater Opening: NAN AND THE LOWER BODY (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Lucie Stern Theatre)
THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF Nan and the Lower Body Janis Dardaris and Elissa Beth Stebbins in the staged reading of NAN AND THE LOWER BODY in the 2019 TheatreWorks New Works Festival TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present the World Premiere of Jessica Dickey’s Nan and the Lower Body, an audience favorite at TheatreWorks’…
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Film Festival Review: FRAMELINE46: THE COAST IS QUEER (Castro Theatre et al. in San Francisco)
After being “virtual” online for the past two years, The Frameline Film Festival is finally back in theaters here in San Francisco. The Castro Theater was glad to welcome both the festival and people into the 100-year-old historical landmark. The Roxie and Kabuki Theaters as well as SFMOMA were also used as venues for the…
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Music: EUN SUN KIM CONDUCTS VERDI (San Francisco Opera, in-person and livestream)
Program Features Scenes from Giuseppe Verdi Masterpieces Luisa Miller, Il Trovatore and Don Carlo Eun Sun Kim (Photo: Kim Tae-hwan) Nicole Car (Photo: Yan Bleney) Arturo Chacón-Cruz (Photo: Tim Chin) Etienne Dupuis (Photo: Dario Acosta); Soloman Howard (Photo: Jon Adjahoe) San Francisco Opera presents Eun Sun Kim Conducts Verdi, a one-night-only concert honoring the work of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi on Thursday,…
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Theater Review: DANA H. (Berkeley Repertory)
ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE NEW PLAYS OF THE DECADE I’ve been singing the praises of Lucas Hnath‘s Dana H. ever since I first saw it three years ago in Los Angeles. Time has not altered my feelings. If anything, as the Berkeley Rep production proves, its power has not diminished in the least, and…
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Theater Review: OCTET (Berkeley Rep in Berkeley)
WILL WE COME THROUGH THIS TOGETHER? Dave Malloy, the genius (and I don’t use that word loosely) who wrote the music, lyrics, book and vocal arrangements for his chamber musical Octet, which is now enjoying what is hopefully a healthy run at Berkeley Rep, asks more questions than any reasonable person could find answers to,…
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Bay Area Theater: AURORA THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES 2022/2023 SEASON
Berkeley’s acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company (Artistic Director Josh Costello) announced today the plays that will comprise the theatre’s 31st season. All shows will be presented live and in-person in Aurora’s theatre in Berkeley. Aurora’s regular 2022/2023 season will run November 2022 through July 2023. In chronological order, show lineup – across seasons – is as…
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