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Theater: TALK TO YOUR PEOPLE (Dan Hoyle, The Marsh)
TALK TO ME One of our greatest solo performers, Dan Hoyle returns to The Marsh for an intimate night of online theater, comedy, and community with an experimental workshop, Talk to Your People, available to stream via MarshStream. Provoked by a director friend last summer who said to “talk to your people,” Hoyle began to create new characters…
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Theater: TRANSNATIONAL CABARET (NCTC in San Francisco)
Transcultural. Transformative. Transcendent. This May, San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) is presenting TransNational Cabaret, an exuberant performance dedicated to the power of being Trans while highlighting the vibrant kaleidoscope of the Trans experience. This digital event features an array of innovative Trans performers from the Bay Area and across the country as they…
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Theater: CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OPENS (Children’s Musical Theater San Jose
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…
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Theater/Film: ANIMAL WISDOM (PBS)
Woolly Mammoth and A.C.T. have finished work on an original film of The Bushwick Starr’s acclaimed production of Animal Wisdom, created by and starring Heather Christian. Filmed at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C., PBS is now streaming Animal Wisdom here. Do you believe in ghosts? Take a virtual front row seat for this original film of the…
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Theater Review: FEEL THE SPIRIT (Shotgun Players in Berkeley)
THE SPIRIT OF THIS PIECE RESIDES IN PERFORMER VERO MAYNEZ What I left with from Feel the Spirit, which opened last night virtual-but-live from Shotgun Players, is the central performance of Vero Maynez (below) as Gabriella, a gay pastor at a Christian Church whose parishioners believe themselves to be tolerant but soon shy from liberalism…
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Theater: A.C.T. OUT LOUD: Alice Childress’s ‘Trouble in Mind’; Shaw’s ‘Arms and the Man’; Wilder’s ‘The Matchmaker’)
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…
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Theater Review: [HIEROGLYPH] (San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre)
AS WITH A HIEROGLYPH, THIS PLAY IS DIFFICULT TO READ Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s [hieroglyph], now streaming from San Francisco Playhouse and and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, belongs to a genre known as Theatre of Identity, aka Social Issues Theatre. The idea is to call attention to a particular cultural identity or crisis – in this case, the…
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Opera: FREE OPERA STREAMS (San Francisco Opera)
SCHEDULE OF FREE OPERA STREAMS FOR APRIL FROM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA San Francisco Opera’s weekly, free opera streams continue in April with Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (April 3–4), The Fall of the House of Usher double bill featuring one-act operas by Gordon Getty and Claude Debussy (April 10–11) and Verdi’s Don Carlo (April 17–18). Part of the Company’s Opera is ON initiative, free opera streams…
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Museum: THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS AND WORLD WAR II (The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco)
The Walt Disney Family Museum opens its new special exhibition, The Walt Disney Studios and World War II, on Thursday, March 18 for museum members and to the general public the following day, Friday, March 19, 2021. Disney Studio Artist, historically accurate color rendition by Kent Ramsey; 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron, Fresno, CA, Dumbo insignia, 1942….
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Music: MITSUKO UCHIDA (Recital with Cal Performance)
YOU NEED UCHIDA Cal Performances presents pianist Mitsuko Uchida — a revered interpreter of Schubert — in a virtual recital, streamed online in a digital watch party accompanied by a participatory live chat on Thursday, March 18 at 7pm (PDT). In this recital, recorded for Cal Performances at Home at London’s Wigmore Hall, she performs a…
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Opera: RING FESTIVAL (San Francisco Opera)
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…
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Theater: WHAT WILL I BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? (The Marsh)
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…
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Dance: MIXED REPERTORY PROGRAM #3 (San Francisco Ballet)
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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Music: SFSYMPHONY+ (San Francisco Symphony)
A NEW WAY TO EXPERIENCE YOUR SYMPHONY Upping the virtual music concert spectrum, The San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen are presenting a new on-demand streaming service, SFSymphony+ (SFSymphony Plus). This membership-based service is now on sale at the cost of one ticket to a live concert! Priced at $120 for the entire…
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Theater: LIZZIE (Ray of Light Theatre in San Francisco; January 21 only; Hosted by James Monroe Iglehart)
LEAPIN’ LIZZIE! I kept saying to folks, see it, see it. Then it became “You shoulda seen it.” Fortunately, the ephemerality of theater changes for one night only, as San Francisco’s Ray of Light Theatre brings back their 2015 production of Lizzie, featuring the original cast with Broadway’s Taylor Iman Jones, with special fresh performances…
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Theater Review: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD (SF Playhouse)
A WORLD APART FROM TYPICAL VIRTUAL FARE Like a breath of fresh air, Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World far exceeded my expectations of both virtual theater and Brown’s uneven song cycle. This is an early work from the Tony-winner for Parade and Bridges of Madison County. “It’s about one moment,” Brown said. “It’s about hitting the…
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Theater Review: THE JEWELRY BOX (San Francisco Playhouse)
A JEWEL OF A PLAY Forgive me dear reader for the terse review, but I discovered something yesterday that turned out to be the holiday present you never expected but later realized it was something you needed quite badly. In this case, it’s a one-man show offered by The San Francisco Playhouse through December 25, 2020….
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Theater Preview: HOLIDAY SAUCE… PANDEMIC! (Taylor Mac)
TWAS THE MAC BEFORE CHRISTMAS Taylor Mac is back this holiday season with a full serving of virtual vaudeville. Celebrating the holiday season in all of its dysfunction, Taylor Mac’s HOLIDAY SAUCE… PANDEMIC! will make its live SF premiere from the Curran Theatre on December 12, 2020 at 7pm PST, followed by a strictly limited…
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Concert Preview: (AT) HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (SFGMC)
HUNDREDS OF MEN COMING TO YOUR HOME CHRISTMAS EVE Since 1990, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC) has made its annual event Home for the Holidays a tradition usually held at San Francisco’s iconic Castro Theatre. It was among many other things that I was so sad to miss this year. But nothing keeps these…
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Review: THE FLATS (Radio Drama from Aurora in Berkeley, CA)
INTRUIGING BEGINNING GOES FLAT As theater companies experiment with ways to continue producing entertainment during COVID, a number of platforms are being experimented with. Live, recorded, Zoom, staged — you name it. But very few have turned to radio, which is surprising. It’s been said that radio is the invisible medium that has the greatest…
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