Sunday, May 5, 2024

Tagged with: Onstage

Party Radar: All together now

PARTY RADAR Besides the Bay Area's storied legacy of house, techno, soul, and garage rock parties stands a younger, yet just as vibrant, one of...

Sgt. Pepper, UnderCover

1967 was a banner year for music – a year when Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and Aretha Franklin topped the charts. But perched...

Party Radar: She’s back!

PARTY RADAR OK, so I'm back after a few months, and I hope you'll still let me guide you through the wild, woozy K-hole...

Pretty boy and pretty girls

The excited crowd sweltered in its leathers as Ted Ottaviano and Susan Ottaviano (no relation), two members of revered 1980s-early '90s act Book of...

A powerhouse tribute to essential ‘Miseducation’

ONSTAGE For six years, UnderCover Presents has shaped the fortunes of local musicians by staging epic one-night music festivals that are equal parts tribute and...

Of singing lambs and serial killers

ON STAGE Broadway and Hollywood used to be frenemies. It was an accepted wisdom that film versions killed off the audience for a stage...

‘I want to be humble, but I want to be fierce’

ONSTAGE "I certainly don't mean to talk your ear off," Bill T. Jones, one of the legends of contemporary dance and queer culture, says...

Will the Thrillpeddlers meet their doom?

ONSTAGE From beloved annual Halloween tradition "Shocktoberfest" to hugely successful revivals of early Cockettes musicals like "Pearls Over Shanghai" (with stops in saucy Paris...

Coming in FRESH

ONSTAGE The piece Bay Area dancer and educator Amara Tabor-Smith will perform this weekend at the 2017 FRESH Festival explores how capitalism seeks control of black...

Do toy drones dream of an Arab future?

This week at CounterPulse (Thu/15-Sat/17), multidisciplinary artists Keith Hennessy and Jassem Hindi  come together for future friend/ships, "an idiot’s perspective on violence and despair,...