Tag: San Francisco

Kerri Brackin, Nicky, Rod, Brent Michael DiRoma in Avenue Q

Theater Review: ‘Avenue Q’ Broadway musical at the Orpheum San Francisco

With a dynamic cast, a great score, a funny script, and a harsh kind of honesty, this show has so much going for it - including that rarity of rarities, a second act that is just as strong as the first. Avenue Q signifies some kind of high water mark that keeps bringing us back to the theatre again and again.
Blue Man Group

Blue Man Group coming to San Francisco

Although it is impossible to describe, people of all ages agree that seeing "Blue" is intensely exciting and wildly outrageous.
Titus

Review: For Christopher Titus, revolution starts at the DMV

We've become the "United States of American Idol." First there was 9/11. Then the kids took over, and parents lost control. Meanwhile drug companies kept medicating the nation. Haiti. The oil spill... etc. Plus, "music is dead because Lady Gaga lives."
Phil Van Hest (L.A.) performed his Phil the Void at last year’s San Francisco Fringe Festival.

San Francisco Fringe Festival picks productions for theatre fest

The San Francisco Fringe Festival is an open-access, non-juried, uncensored theatre festival where performers are selected through a lottery. The SF Fringe returns 100% of box office earnings to the performing company.
Christopher Titus Interview - Neverlution

Interview: Christopher Titus ‘Neverlution’

Titus sat down with Stark Insider recently to discuss the show, his infamous upbringing, and even that out-of-control, undisciplined kid we've all seen at the local DMV.
1010 House Front

Support the Arts: $2.8 Million San Francisco dream house raffle at YBCA (photos)

Featuring spectacular 270 degree panoramic views of downtown San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands and the San Francisco Bay, this Twin Peaks-area, 4100 square-foot elegant Spanish-style home is a rare find and valued at $2.8 million.
PBO

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra: Louis Spohr, keyed trumpets and a young Mendelssohn

Cassone’s stunning tremulos, lightning trills and soaring melodies would have been well nigh impossible on the natural trumpet.
Die Walküre

San Francisco Bay Area Ring Festival to feature symposia, exhibits, films, performances

San Francisco Opera will present Richard Wagner’s epic four-opera cycle, May 29–July 3, 2011 at the War Memorial Opera House.
artMRKT

artMRKT to launch modern, contemporary art fair

“In many ways we are trying to push the boundaries of what it means to create a temporary marketplace for fine art."
A special performance by Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon

Heroes & Hearts San Francisco

Since its founding in 1994, the Foundation has raised over $50 million, helping to directly impact nearly 100,000 patients each year.