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‘The Bald Soprano’: A perfect hour of absurdity returns, fire chief and all

ONSTAGE Ten years ago, Rob Melrose, who founded the Tenderloin’s Cutting Ball Theatre with his wife Paige Rogers, translated and directed Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist...

Call the ‘Please Force’: Wavy Gravy revisits Woodstock in new doc

Plagued by site issues, limited construction time, a surplus of attendees, heavy traffic delays, inclement weather conditions, a scarcity of food and medical supplies,...

Cal Shakes begins new season fostering fresh voices in theater

The people working at California Shakespeare Theater go all in when it comes to equity and inclusion. That means along with its program to expand...

Spin Doctors’ Chris Barron on break ups, break downs, and the group’s new music

Spin Doctors’ frontman Chris Barron can easily flash back to his first time playing San Francisco. It was 1991 and his neo-hippie jam band was...

Screen Grabs: All weekend long, the Roxie celebrates French noir

SCREEN GRABS If you’re not busy this week with CAAM (see our preview here), there’s a competing mini-festival of sorts which overlaps with it just...

‘We Have Iré’ celebrates the Afro-Cuban immigrant experience—and challenge

ONSTAGE Paul Flores grew up in Chula Vista, California, near the Mexican border. His single mom worked a lot, and his grandmother was a central...

Dancing to a different Russian in ‘Shostakovich Trilogy’

ONSTAGE Dmitri Shostakovich’s music isn’t typical for a ballet. That’s because of shifts in the tone and tempo, says Sasha De Sola, a principle dancer...

Life is a ‘Vanity Fair,’ old chum

ONSTAGE If you disregard the period setting, squint at the pastel backdrops and blur out the sumptuous jewel-toned dresses, Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Vanity...

A live cinema event to ‘Remember Los Siete’ in the Mission

On May 1,1969, a pair of cops stopped a group of Latino activists on the Mission District's Alvarado Street. In the ensuring altercation, one...

Please Do Not Fight reunion collects a scattered scene

ALL EARS Pursuing music often begins with a simple realization: that it could be you up on that stage. And before he started the Redwood...