Tag: San Francisco

Acrobats. Horses. Aerialists. State-of-the-art video screens. And a three-story mountain with... a real lake. Odysseo. That's the name of the new, $30 million mega-show made by the creators of the fantastical show Cavalia we saw here a few years back. It's scheduled to come to San Francisco in November and run...

The Sausalito Art Festival, one of the oldest and most prestigious art events in the country, once again gets ready to mount another edition of the celebrated festival. Mark your calendars for Saturday through Monday, September 5 – 7, 2015. Fine art, great music, gourmet food, and premium wines will be...

Mill Valley Film Festival returns this fall for its 38th year. The increasingly influential indie film festival (non-competitive) is set to descend just North of San Francisco from October 8 through 18. MVFF draws thousands of attendees every fall to Marin County for 11 days of films, panel discussions, and...

Fresh off Broadway, Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth will open Custom Made Theatre's 2015-16 season in San Francisco. Organizers today revealed the entire line-up, and said plays will be performed at Custom's new theater space. Artistic Director Brian Katz says, "we are thrilled about our 17th season, especially since it...

A "fierce global journey." That's how Magic Theatre describes its upcoming season. Featuring plays by Barfield, Hagedorn, Skinner, and Udofia, the 2015-16 season opens this September with the American premiere of Fred's Diner, a black comedy about the reaches of class and sovereignty. Tanya Barfield's love-story, Bright Half Life, is next up. That's followed...

He’s critically attuned to how this steady diet of digital distraction diminishes our ability to form real connections and real community.

"It is a full, physical workout, this show." It takes actor Bryce Ryness only about 15 minutes to transform -- warts and all -- into that most likable of an evil headmistress, Miss Trunchbull. But, removing all that makeup, glue, and effect pieces, well... that takes considerably longer. Perhaps most impressive...

Company remains so vital you have to pay attention to this microscope on everyone’s marriage, complete with ironies, compromises, and connections for which we all keep looking

Watch as Jade performs at Union Square in San Francisco. "I feel like a goddess or princess. That feeling of a super power!" she says when little kids react to her famous tricks and illusions.

No microphones. It's all about the Bel Canto in Voice Australia's 'Call Me Miss Birds Eye'.