Tag: San Francisco

A Post-Halloween Sweetener at 42nd Street Moon: ‘The Boy Friend’ (Review)

Rarely do we have such a reliable witness who wears the fact she's been around the block a time or two with such discrete flair.

Inaugural, peer-based Theatre Bay Area Awards to honor stage excellence

New TBA awards to recognize excellence in theater across the San Francisco Bay Area. Inaugural celebration scheduled for November 10, 2014 at the American Conservatory Theater.

It’s a Wrap! Mill Valley Film Festival sets attendance record (Video highlights)

Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) sets record with 61,000 attendance. Watch highlights: Elle Fanning, Hilary Swank, Kristin Davis.

Die Mommie Die!

Joan Crawford: your play is ready. Divas unite.

London’s Calling: ‘Sweeney Todd’ (Review)

Ayn Rand might find Studwell's transitions to the iconoclastic demon barber of Fleet Street so effective that she’d just have to get over the central conceit likening cannibalism to capitalism.

Only The Best: The Nights of Madrid

Leave it to a group focused upon historically informed Baroque music – the same stuff that could be voted most likely to be museum pieces – to develop a concert format for the 21st century.

The Waltz, the Waltz… Do you Hear a Waltz?

This comparison of European and American attitudes toward marital fidelity suggests that while Americans aren’t as sophisticated as we like to think, we were far more sophisticated in the early ‘60s than we tend to remember.

Elle Fanning gives Stark Insider the ‘Low Down’ (MVFF Video)

"I think this is the first time I've played a real, live person!" Watch as effervescent actor Elle Fanning arrives in style at the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF).

Windows 10 it is – Microsoft jumps ahead, morphs past and future

Windows 10 revealed in San Francisco. The Start Menu returns. The Start Screen gets a makeover. And user interface adjustments should make Windows more touch friendly.