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Onstage

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

Emily Wilson - October 3, 2018

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...

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

Joanna Ladd - September 13, 2018

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

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

Marke B. - September 9, 2018

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...

Opera singer Russell Thomas on diversity, drive, and ‘Roberto Devereux’

Emily Wilson - September 8, 2018

ALL EARS When opera singer Joy Davidson heard tenor Russell Thomas sing in his high school choir in Miami, she asked him if he’d ever considered...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Soundwave’s diverse, reverberating visions

Marke B. - September 5, 2018

ARTS FORECAST The biennial Soundwave festival (Sat/8-October 26) is one of those incredible Bay Area experiences that really connects music and performance with the feeling...

Onstage

Review: ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ has powerhouse vocals, timely resonance

Elaine Elinson - July 26, 2018

ONSTAGE When Quasimodo (Alex Rodriguez) and Esmeralda (Alysia Noelle Beltran) sit perched on a railing in the bell tower of Notre Dame looking down...

Dance

Keith Hennessy’s fiercely political, achingly intimate ‘Crotch’ and ‘Sink’

Marke B. - May 28, 2018

DANCE/PERFORMANCE A pagan drag queen Green Man, sporting a maypole-ribbon corset and tiny Speedo, hopping about madly on stilts? A ferocious clown satire of the...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The SF International Film Fest is here

Dennis Harvey - April 1, 2018

SCREEN GRABS The Big Kahuna of Bay Area film events is back, a little earlier than usual this year: The San Francisco International Film Festival...

Party Radar

Party Radar: The way, way, Wayback Machine

Marke B. - March 21, 2018

PARTY RADAR I've got a horn and I'm gonna toot it! I've loved covering SF nightlife, starting way back as an imaginary, omnipresent, somewhat...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Autumn Lights, Space Visitors, Clarion Alley Block Party …

Marke B. - October 16, 2017

ARTS FORECAST Next week we release the results of our 42nd Best of the Bay poll (sign up for our newsletter to hear about results...

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