Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tagged with: Stage

Silent Film Fest ranges afar—but don’t worry, there’s still Buster

It's been edging in this direction for a while, and it’s probably not a strategy that can or should be repeated ad finitum. But...

What is Bay Area drag? Oaklash Festival has some wild ideas

"Television is not nor has it ever been the ultimate form of drag," Oaklash Drag Festival co-founder and performer and East Bay-based drag queen...

Arts Forecast: Bye, bye, Babylon…

ARTS FORECAST San Francisco, your Golden Gates are closing, it sometimes feels like—especially with the announcement that, after 45 years of high spirits and higher...

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...

Arts Forecast: Easter with the Sisters returns to Dolores Park, more

ARTS FORECAST Everybody loves a Hunky Jesus, a Foxy Mary, a too-cute Easter egg hunt, and of course the most elaborate bonnet competition this side...

Screen Grabs: Cannabis nuns, Sapphic poets, Riot Grrrl blues….

SCREEN GRABS The SFFILM Festival, whose second half continues through Tues/23 at various SF and East Bay venues, has like many such organizations made a significant...

‘The Wait Room’ expresses the physical effects of a loved one’s incarceration

“When my husband was first sentenced, people would cross the street to avoid me,” remembers choreographer Jo Kreiter, writing to 48 Hills before her...

Reviews: News of the real world in ‘The Jungle’ and ‘N—aroo’

ONSTAGE  "Theater brings news," an old saw goes. That can be interpreted any number of ways, but The Jungle (through May 19 at the Curran) brings...

The Ukraine elections, Putin, and Trump

Ukrainians can chose a crook or a clown as their new president. So far the clown is winning. Volodymyr Zelensky, a prominent comedian without political...

Pete Buttigieg makes a splash in SF — but what does he really stand for?

For the second time in as many months, presidential hopeful and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg made an appearance in San Francisco. But unlike...