Tag: San Francisco

In Photos: ‘The Normal Heart’ at A.C.T. San Francisco

Larry Kramer’s landmark 1985 drama unfolds like a real-life political thriller as a tight-knit group of friends refuse to let doctors, politicians, and the media bury the truth about an epidemic ravaging the gay community.

Pity the Poor 1%: ‘For the Greater Good, or The Last Election’ (review)

However critical of San Francisco Mime Troupe politics you might be, the bottom line is that they remain stellar performing artists. With impeccable timing, costuming, acting, and blocking, these guys just can’t be faulted.

Review: Lamplighters Music Theatre opens 60th year with ‘The Mikado’

How could irony possibly exist in the land of Titipu, peopled as it is with characters named Yum Yum, Pish-Tush, Pooh Bah, Nanki-Poo, and other appellations that don’t qualify as pseudo-Japanese – and probably didn’t even back in 1885 when it first opened?

Top 10 Dishes from SF Chefs

SF Chefs, along with Pebble Beach Food & Wine, Montalvo Food & Wine, and Flavor! Napa Valley has become a marquee event. Here's the top 10 dishes.

Clowning around with Lorenzo Pisoni at the A.C.T.

What does it feel like to be five years old and locked in a trunk with a dummy that looks exactly like you?

Review: ‘War Horse’ at the SHN Curran commands breathless attention

While the show is smart enough to throw in bits of comedy, be it an insouciant toss of a tail, or fat, self-important geese waddling into stage center, you hope against hope for the unlikely happy ending, weighing the grimness of World War I, against the need for resolution.

San Francisco Pick: SF Chefs (Video)

A complete guide, including photos, videos and schedule to this weekend's SF Chefs at Union Square in San Francisco.

San Francisco try-out of new musical ‘Diner’ postponed

Instead Diner the musical, which was scheduled to run this fall at the SHN Curran Theatre, will "retool" for a Broadway run in a more "intimate venue."

‘Triads’ a memorable, out-of-the-box experience

Saturday night’s performance at the Herbst Theatre did not disappoint the enthusiastic crowd

‘Sweeney Todd’ – The Devil’s in the Details

Ray of Light Theatre’s magnificent current treatment eschews any fancy staging or overblown production values and adroitly places the emphasis upon strong acting and skilled vocalizations.