Saturday, May 4, 2024

Tagged with: High School

Ethnic Dance Fest transcends borders 41 years in

Patrick Makuakāne, the founder and director of the Hawaiian dance company Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu, wants to keep traditions of the dance form intact....

Tobacco industry freaks out about vaping ban in SF

Juul and its supporters reacted instantly to the Board of Supes vote today banning the sale of vaping products, with a flurry of press...

Matteo Lane gets Clusterfested

ONSTAGE Out New York-based comedian Matteo Lane didn’t dream of a career in comedy, growing up. In fact, the “Moving On” (2015), “Crashing” (2018), and...

In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

ONSTAGE Waiting after school for his mother to pick him up after a high school French club meeting, Rotimi Agbabiaka—whose new show Manifesto plays at...

What the vaping ballot initiative is really about

You can’t walk around San Francisco these days without running into somebody gathering signatures to “raise the legal age for vaping products” or to,...

‘Oedipus’ incarcerated: Esteban Carmona plays imprisoned tragic hero

ONSTAGE When you watch the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, you know how it’s gong to end. Oedipus, suffering from hubris, will kill his father and...

Review: Superman is Black and invincible in ‘Supremacy’

Two modes of storytelling collide with meaningful results in Jason Mendez’s play Supremacy (at Exit Theatre through Sat/18). The playwright repurposes Superman’s origin story...

Dimensions Dance comes ‘Armed with Joy’ and ‘Sanctuary’

DANCE Choreographer Erik Lee has always seen dance as a form of worship. Now he thinks that idea has growing acceptance, and he’s glad to be...

Screen Grabs: Jeff Adachi, Romanian scandal, magnificent cake…

SCREEN GRABS In a week that brings the literally elephantine spectacle of a (mostly) live-action Dumbo remake by Tim Burton, you might well run in...

In ‘La Ronde,’ a merry-go-round of trysts—with a twist

ONSTAGE La Ronde, a turn of the century play by Arthur Schnitzler, has 10 scenes for 10 actors. In the Cutting Ball Theater’s upcoming production...