Monica Turner

Comedian, actor, and all-round guy-with-the-smile Seth MacFarlane is set to headline the San Francisco Symphony annual holiday concert season. We have those details and more below, including the full schedule. Mark your calendars, once again SF Symphony has pulled out all the stops. Grammy Award-nominated Seth MacFarlane will join the...

You've seen Cirque before. But you haven't seen it on ice yet... Until Crystal arrives that is. Cirque du Soleil's first ice show -- dubbed "a breakthrough ice experience" -- begins to tour the U.S. and Canada this October with stops in Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec and Arizona...

Stark Insider presents a backstage look at Cirque Du Soleil's newest artistic creation, Luzia. LUZIA is now in Atlanta. Cirque's "waking dream of Mexico" features everything we've come to expect from the spectacle: beautiful costumes, astonishing acrobatics, dancing, singing, audience engagement, and, overall, fine entertainment. But LUZIA has a unique...

Stark Insider goes backstage at 'Luzia' by Cirque du Soleil. Learn more about secrets of the show, and see what it takes to become -- or attempt to become -- a Cirque performer. Cirque du Soleil's new touring production Luzia is all about light and rain. And, as you might...

"Summer with the Symphony" runs July 4-29. Highlights include Pixar in Concert, Ben Folds with the SFS, A Night at the Moulin Rouge with Storm Large, and an all-American program with music of Bernstein and Gershwin with Rhiannon Giddens.

Sonoma County Philharmonic to perform the original orchestral score, composed by Chaplin himself, in an outdoor evening screening.

Cirque du Soleil's newest creation, Luzia -- A Waking Dream of Mexico, is now playing Denver (Pepsi Center). In this special episode, Stark Insider goes backstage to explore the show that's all about light ("luz") and rain ("lluvia"). As you'd expect from Cirque, the visuals and acrobatics are, once again,...

Light. And rain. That's the idea behind Luzia, a stunning new touring production by Cirque du Soleil. After stops in San Francisco and Seattle, the show along with the White Big Top hits the road once again. Look for Luzia next in Denver, Colorado where it will run for about a...

Magic Theatre has a storied history of staging productions with legendary actors. Sean Penn. Peter Coyote. Ed Harris. Danny Glover. Woody Harrelson. Nick Nolte. Just to name a few who have taken to the famed San Francisco stage. Now Magic has announced that Carl Lumbly (ABC’s Alias, CBS’ Cagney &...

Jay Leno, The B-52s, Gregory Porter lead strong summer concert line-up at historic outdoor Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre.