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Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

Dennis Harvey - March 5, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...

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Review: ‘Fiorello!’ sets the LaGuardia legend to rousing music

Elaine Elinson - March 4, 2019

ONSTAGE For those unfamiliar with Fiorello LaGuardia, the friend-of-the-working class Republican who fought Tammany Hall to become the 99th Mayor of New York City, the...

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Review: The gleaming, steaming ‘Hamilton’ machine

Marke B. - March 4, 2019

ONSTAGE OK, Thomas Jefferson as Slick Rick got me. Dazzlingly embodied by actor Simon Longnight in the latest touring production of Hamilton to hit SF (through...

Arts + Culture

Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’

Emily Wilson - February 27, 2019

ONSTAGE Here’s something you may not know: There’s a 60-year-old musical about Fiorello La Guardia, who went from being a lawyer to a congressman to...

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Detailing the splashy brilliance of Berkeley Rep’s ‘Metamorphoses’

Emily Wilson - February 12, 2019

ONSTAGE When actor Benjamin Ismail was in high school, he loved Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. "They're so primal and ancient...

Arts + Culture

Review: In ‘Seascape,’ a day at the beach—with giant lizards

Elaine Elinson - February 6, 2019

ONSTAGE Sparkling white sands spilling over the stage. Tufts of spindly sea grass. The sound of waves breaking gently in the distance, accompanied by...

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Review: A marvelous Chinatown ride in ‘King of the Yees’

Elaine Elinson - February 3, 2019

ONSTAGE In one intriguing scene in King of the Yees (at SF Playhouse through March 2), the Sichuan Face Changer (Jomar Tagatac) poses a...

Arts + Culture

Playwright Lauren Yee’s tribute to China Town community comes home to SF

Emily Wilson - January 18, 2019

Lauren Yee’s play, King of the Yees, has been produced all over – Baltimore, Toronto, Seattle, and Chicago. But she’s particularly excited for it...

Arts + Culture

Among the flourishes of ‘Volver’, a lesson of flamenco’s past and present

Emily Wilson - January 17, 2019

Kerensa DeMars first saw flamenco dance in 1995. The next year, she went to Spain with “high school- level Spanish,” intending to stay for...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Black excellence, year round

Caitlin Donohue - January 15, 2019

ARTS FORECAST Of course, you have heard from the trumpeting of various arts institutions that Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches. In accordance, the City...

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Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

Review: ‘Fiorello!’ sets the LaGuardia legend to rousing music

Review: The gleaming, steaming ‘Hamilton’ machine

Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’

Detailing the splashy brilliance of Berkeley Rep’s ‘Metamorphoses’

Review: In ‘Seascape,’ a day at the beach—with giant lizards

Review: A marvelous Chinatown ride in ‘King of the Yees’

Playwright Lauren Yee’s tribute to China Town community comes home to SF

Among the flourishes of ‘Volver’, a lesson of flamenco’s past and present

Arts Forecast: Black excellence, year round

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