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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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A rush of that ol’ razzle dazzle in ‘Crazy For You’

ONSTAGE Remember “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “I Got Rhythm,” “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” and “Embraceable You”? Can you hear these Gershwin tunes...

Arts Forecast: Hip-Hop Dance Fest, The Orb, Great Dickens Christmas Fair…

ARTS FORECAST Everyone's pretty much been forced indoors by the smoke, so it's a good time to see a show—and I'll be keeping an eye...

‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ as a holiday opera, bumbling angel and all

ONSTAGE Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer have not shied away from big topics,  San Francisco Opera dramaturg Kip Cranna, pointed out. Heggie worked...

Screen Grabs: The French Had a Name For It …

SCREEN GRABS Importation of foreign language films has reportedly been on the decline for many years because US audiences are growing more resistant to reading...

No men, no boats, no problem: ACT’s ‘Men on Boats’ is wild ride

ONSTAGE The first thing you notice about Men on Boats at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater (through December 16) is that there are no men and there are...

Screen Grabs: Festival mania fills local cinemas!

SCREEN GRABS There is surely nowhere in the world with more film festivals per capita than San Francisco. While the bigger annual events are...

Arts Forecast: Absolutely Fabulous Live, Punk-Metal Flea Market, Crime 1978

ARTS FORECAST Hey, hey! Maybe you have heard that we released a little thing called Best of the Bay last week, with a whole section...

Arts Forecast: Dia de los Muertos, Diwali, Blackalicious …

ARTS FORECAST "In San Francisco, Day of the Dead has been celebrated in the Mission district sincethe early 70’s. The Marigold Project was created in...

Rami Malek, the man who would be Queen, on ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

When Rami Malek was originally cast to play Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," (opening Friday), he knew little about the lead singer...

Reconstituting Orson Welles, in ‘Wind’ and in ‘Love’

When Orson Welles died in 1985 at age 70—hardly “prematurely,” since given his prodigious appetites (esp. culinary) it was already a miracle he’d survived...