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Music Preview: CELLIST DAVID FINCKEL AND PIANIST WU HAN (Beethoven/The Five Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Cal Performances)
A GIFT TO YOURSELF Get ready for cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han’s marathon program of the complete Beethoven sonatas for cello and piano — monumental works in the repertoire but also significant artistic touchstones for these amazingly gifted interpreters, a husband-and-wife duo who have been playing them together for more than 25 years….
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Theater Review: ART (San Francisco Playhouse)
YES, BUT IS IT ART? Yasmina Reza’s oft-produced Art (English translation by Christopher Hampton) may be singularly responsible for the current plethora of new plays today with one set, a small cast, and billed as “Ninety Minutes No Intermission.” Art is a cash cow, and it’s no wonder that so many playwrights seem to be…
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Theater Preview: BERKELEY REP’s 2020-21 SEASON
BERKELEY REP’S IN SEASON As with most theater companies, Berkeley Rep’s season goes virtual. Titled Rep On-Air, it will include collaborations with Raúl Esparza, New Yorker cartoon artist Tom Toro, Pulitzer Finalist Eisa Davis, and Hershey Felder. The three projects listed below follow It Can’t Happen Here, the terrific radio play adapted from the novel by Sinclair Lewis…
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Theater Preview: THE HUMAN OUNCE (Central Works 30th Anniversary Season)
MORE FROM CENTRAL WORKS The Human Ounce by Nicole Parizeau opened Central Works’ 30th season and was the first offering from the Central Works Script Club. A CW world-premiere about art and scandal, the show played to packed houses and had just announced a 1-week extension before the theater was forced to close its doors….
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Theater Preview: MOONBEAMS (42nd Street Moon’s Virtual Series)
CARRY MOONBEAMS HOME IN A JAR Here comes 42nd Street Moon’s announcement for its fall season, with plenty of showtunes to keep you going until COVID-19 takes a big fat hike. The season, MoonBeams, will consist of five streaming shows, debuting from September 28 to November 26, 2020. All streams will be pre-recorded with professional…
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Film Preview: SHIT & CHAMPAGNE (Frameline 44)
SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO POP We have the new trailer for D’Arcy Drollinger‘s new comedy, Shit & Champagne. Kicking off Frameline44 — the world’s largest virtual Queer film festival — this world premiere hits the West Wind Solano Drive-In Theater in Concord, CA, on Thursday, September 17, 2020. About Shit & Champagne San Francisco’s own drag queen extraordinaire D’Arcy…
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Film Preview: MORONI FOR PRESIDENT (directed by Saila Huusko and Jasper Rischen)
PRESIDENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR The documentary Moroni for President offers an eye-opening and humorous look at a political race that runs surprisingly parallel to the current political landscape of the U.S. It will be released in Virtual Cinemas beginning Friday, August 21, 2020,at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater, and then expanding to other arthouse theaters through September…
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Theater Preview: LIVE STREAMING EVENTS (SF Playhouse)
SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES AUGUST LIVE STREAMING EVENTS San Francisco Playhouse is offering five new episodes of its live streaming calendar, including three Zoomlet Live Play Readings and two Fireside Chats. The events will be streamed free of charge on the Company’s website. Announcements of additional episodes and programming will be made over the coming weeks….
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Theater Feature: MARSHSTREAM INTERNATIONAL SOLO FEST (The Marsh online)
MARSH’S ONLINE SOLO FEST LOOKS FOR PERFORMERS From Ann Randolph’s Loveland in 2010 to Dan Hoyle’s Border People last year, The Marsh has presented some of the greatest solo shows I have ever seen — with some of the freshest perspectives on stage. San Francisco Bay Area’s “breeding ground for new performance,” which operated theaters…
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Attraction Preview: DISNEYLAND’S 65TH (Walt Disney Family Museum)
DISNEYLAND CELEBRATION COMES TO YOU Celebrate Disneyland’s 65th trip around the sun this Friday, July 17. San Francisco’s Walt Disney Family Museum hosts a day filled with special Disneyland-centric virtual programming, Disneyland trivia, and a few surprises along the way. Expect some of your favorite Disneyland memories coming to life’”virtually! Start the day with well-known…
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Theater Feature: QUIZ ME, KATE (42nd Street Moon)
THE CHANCE TO PLAY BROADWAY TRIVIA IS A NO-BRAINER! WINNING..? WELL… San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon has been offering a program that I know our readers would delight in. Mavens and newbies alike are welcome to play “Quiz Me, Kate: Musical Theatre Trivia”, which happens on Sundays at 8 p.m. PST. Enter as a household…
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Cabaret Feature: FULL MOON FRIDAYS (Live Cabaret Series from 42nd Street Moon in San Francisco)
COME TO THIS CABARET Let’s face it folks. Not every Broadway musical is a winner. Yet even the biggest flops have songs that are revelations to those who never heard them. Discover some of these jewels this Friday with San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon as they continue their “Full Moon Fridays: Live Cabaret” series on…
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Opera Preview: CELEBRATING THE SUMMER SEASON (San Francisco Opera)
CELEBRATING THE SUMMER SEASON San Francisco Opera will present its first virtual event, Celebrating the Summer Season, on Friday, July 10 at sfopera.com. The three-part, 90-minute program will honor the artists and operas’”Verdi’s Ernani, Handel’s Partenope and Mason Bates and Mark Campbell’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’”from the Company’s 2020 Summer Season which was canceled due to the pandemic. Celebrating the…
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Theater Preview: BEETHOVEN — LIVE FROM FLORENCE (Hershey Felder)
BEETHOVEN TO APPEAR LIVE IN YOUR HOME Dramatizing Dr. Gerhard von Breuning’s factual memoir, Aus dem Schwarzspanierhaus (Out of the House of Black-Robed Spaniards, Beethoven’s last residence), Hershey Felder brought Ludwig van Beethoven to life on stage through the eyes of the Viennese Doctor Breuning who spent his boyhood by the Maestro’s side. Featuring some of…
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Event Preview: SF PRIDE’S FIFTIETH WILL BE CELEBRATED ONLINE (San Francisco Pride)
SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE’S FIFTIETH WILL BE CELEBRATED ONLINE Well, you can’t keep a great party down. On Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28, 2020, the 50-year milestone anniversary of SF Pride will actually be televised. Grammy Award-winning singer and Motown legend Thelma Houston will be the Sunday headliner for the official Pride 50 online celebration. As a…
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Theater Preview: MARSHSTREAM (The Marsh San Francisco)
STREAMING IN THE MARSH As the Bay Area’s shelter-in-place continues, The Marsh San Francisco offers a variety of programming at 7:30pm nightly on MarshStream, its popular broadcast platform. MarshStream programming varies daily. Offerings include: Monday Night MarshStream (short performances by a variety of artists): Wild Card Tuesdays (everything from book/writer discussions, sing-a-longs, Tell It On…
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Theater Review: GLORIA (A.C.T.’s Strand Theater)
GLORY GLORY GLORIA I don’t know if Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has ever worked in a Manhattan publishing house but he sure knows his way about the workplace. In Gloria, he paints an extraordinary portrait of the workings of an office whose conflicts revolve around some writers with their own agendas, a sense of emotional intensity on…
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Music Review: ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND JULIA BULLOCK (San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall)
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND JULIA BULLOCK The opening notes of Steven Stucky’s transcription of Henry Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, memorably mournful, set the elegiac tone for last weekend’s San Francisco Symphony concert at Davies Hall. In ten short minutes, a quietly solemn mood was eloquently created, under the sympathetic conducting of Essa-Pekka…
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Theater Review: BORN IN EAST BERLIN (SF Playhouse)
REBIRTH Which walls are worse? Those that keep people out or those that keep people in? Playwright Rogelio Martinez seemed to have this question in mind when he wrote Born in East Berlin, which is being given its world premiere at the Creativity Theater thanks to San Francisco Playhouse’s Sandbox Series, and it is this…
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Music Review: THIBAUDET & SAINT-SAí‹NS (Fabien Gabel conducting SF Symphony at Davies Hall)
THIBAUDET & SAINT-SAí‹NS As befits a Valentine’s Day weekend, the San Francisco Symphony whipped up an evening of lush romanticism that was designed to leave its audience swooning. Under the elegant and intensely felt direction of the distinguished French conductor, Fabian Gabel, making a spectacular debut with the SFS, the first half of the evening…
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