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Pucks to plays: Former hockey pro brings drama to Magic Theatre

ONSTAGE Ashlin Halfnight sees a lot of parallels between his former career as a professional hockey player and his current one as a playwright.  “It seems...

Arts Forecast: Behold, the mighty Litquake!

ARTS FORECAST It's Litquake time again (October 11-20), when the enormous literary festival takes over the city's venues—and, for Litcrawl on October 20, basically any...

Chekhov, with some curveballs, in Cutting Ball’s ‘Uncle Vanya’

ONSTAGE George Saulnier plays the title role in Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which opens the Cutting Ball Theater’s 20th anniversary season (through October 21). Saulnier...

Power, corruption, and lust: A timely ‘Tosca’ at SF Opera

Shawna Lucey has strong feeling about Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, which she directs for the San Francisco Opera October 3-30.  “It’s the perfect opera,” she said. “It’s...

Art Haus brings playa magic to Symphony’s ‘Rite of Spring’

With its driving, swooning rhythms and primal energies, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring remains one of the "bad boy" pieces of the symphonic...

Unraveling Rene Magritte’s late riddles

ART LOOKS The work of 20th century surrealist Belgian painter Rene Magritte’s,with its iconic green apples and men in bowler hats, invites the viewers question reality....

Fall Arts aflame! The 50+ best things to do this season

FALL ARTS PREVIEW The light is deepening, the food is getting heartier, harvest is bringing much good grape and green, and fall arts season is...

Ficks’ Picks at TIFF: Gorgeous Chinese films + early Oscar buzz

Our critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Toronto International Film Festival. Read more of his coverage here.  TIFF This year's Toronto International Film Festival (which just...

Making noise and empowering girls: 15 years of Women’s Audio Mission

ALL EARS For 15 years, the sound engineers at SoMa neighborhood-based Women’s Audio Mission have been applying their skills to one of the field’s trickiest...

Arts Forecast: Green Thursday, Autumn Moon Fest, Comedy Day

ARTS FORECAST One of the great things about the tsunami of environmentalism hitting San Francisco this week is Green Thursday (Thu/13), during which a number of...