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Tagged with: Festival

Onstage

A timely, unrelenting family drama unfolds at Magic Theatre

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE When Annie (Martha Brigham) opens the front door of her family home at the beginning of Magic Theatre's "The Resting Place" (through November 4),...
Party Radar

Hey, Boo! 17 Halloween parties to keep you up at night

Marke B. -
PARTY RADAR For the love of all that's unholy, I am lighting 666 witchy candles that no one steps out on Halloween dressed as a...
Dance

Post-human radical inclusivity, center-stage in ‘Beyond Gravity’

Emily Wilson -
DANCE Choreographer Jess Curtis grew up in Chico and studied dance and English at Cal State there. Then he came to San Francisco, which changed...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The War at Home, Wings of Desire, What They Had …

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS There are no less than four solid, serious dramas opening at local theaters this week, signaling that the silly season (which these days...
Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: SF Shorts, Beautiful Boy, Filipino Cine Festival…

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS While the SF Greek and Arab Film Festivals continue for their second, final weekends (see last week’s column for more details), it’s otherwise...
Onstage

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

Emily Wilson -
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

Arts Forecast: Behold, the mighty Litquake!

Marke B. -
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...
Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: Free Solo, Arab Film Fest, Studio 54…

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Two of the major releases are major disappointments from hitherto reliable directors. Scenarist Drew Goddard’s first directorial feature since ingenious horror deconstruction...
Onstage

ACT’s ‘Sweat’ asks: When does class solidarity end and racism begin?

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE  The tavern setting is a familiar trope for American theater and television—think Langston Hughes’ Simple series, Casablanca, The Iceman Cometh, or Friends. It offers both an intimate...
Puff

Need a little lift? Meet the local queen of microdosing

Dan Karkoska -
PUFF As effervescent and bubbly as some of the products she promotes, Marcia Gagliardi is a glittery swirl of personality and microdosing information via...
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