Monday, May 6, 2024

Tagged with: Stage

In ‘Mother of the Maid,’ Joan of Arc’s maternal support takes center stage

Jane Anderson wrote her play Mother of the Maid about Joan of Arc’s mother, Isabelle Arc, as a tribute to her own mother. When...

From Lagos with love—and the god of fire

Bisi is more than a stage name for the 29-year-old Nigerian singer-songwriter who’s called San Francisco home for the last decade. It’s also a...

Screen Grabs: Escape your family at the movies

Apparently obeying the logic that audiences will be sufficiently occupied with such recent popular entries as Frozen 2 or Ford v Ferrari—if they aren’t simply...

Arts Forecast: Hip-Hop (Dance Fest) hurray! + more

I'm old enough to remember rappers on Fillmore corners and TURF dancers in Oakland intersections. The homeboys gathered on my stoop throughout the day...

Kumail’s ‘Yasmin’ tunes into a celestial radio show

Art is based on the inability to predict how it will be received. Sometimes as a DJ you get tired of breaking fools' ankles. Kumail Hamid did....

With women at its center, ‘Amaluna’ sparkles and charms

I can’t even count how many times I held my breath or clutched on to my seat.  Or put my palms over my eyes,...

Arts Forecast: And here’s the real kicker…

ARTS FORECAST The Stomp tour stomped into town for a very brief visit at ACT last weekend (why, when it could stay so much longer?)—and the...

Screen Grabs: Three of the year’s best dramas and more

Many new films of interest opening this Friday—so many, in fact, that we had to write separately about the week’s revival highlights (see here)...

The lo-fi psych-pop joys of Still Woozy

Still Woozy (playing Wed/13 through Friday/15 at The New Parish) was hanging out backstage at Lollapalooza at Chicago’s Grant Park, last summer. He had...

At Dirtybird Campout, chasing summer’s waggling tail-feather

I never heard so much disco at a music festival as I did at Dirtybird West Coast Campout 2019 earlier this month. One of my...