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Onstage

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

Elaine Elinson - June 12, 2019

ONSTAGE Ten years after Oedipus El Rey premiered at the Magic Theatre, Luis Alfaro’s drama is being staged there as a legacy revival, again directed by...

Onstage

Review: Herd mentality writ large (and snorting) in ‘Rhinoceros’

Elaine Elinson - June 11, 2019

ONSTAGE If you think it unlikely that an absurdist comedy about raging rhinoceroses in a small French town could resonate deeply with the concerns...

Onstage

‘Oedipus’ incarcerated: Esteban Carmona plays imprisoned tragic hero

Emily Wilson - June 6, 2019

ONSTAGE When you watch the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, you know how it’s gong to end. Oedipus, suffering from hubris, will kill his father and...

Onstage

‘The Bald Soprano’: A perfect hour of absurdity returns, fire chief and all

Emily Wilson - June 4, 2019

ONSTAGE Ten years ago, Rob Melrose, who founded the Tenderloin’s Cutting Ball Theatre with his wife Paige Rogers, translated and directed Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist...

Movies

Watching at CROSSROADS 2019: Avant-garde film festival returns

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - June 3, 2019

San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual experimental film festival CROSSROADS is celebrating its 10th year at the SFMOMA, Fri/7-Sun/9. With 62 works of film, video, and...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Going big, from Woodstock to Godzilla

Dennis Harvey - May 27, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Bigger is presumably better this week, with Godzilla: King of the Monsters (the third Hollywood film about the critter who’s starred in...

News + Politics

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

Tiny - May 22, 2019

“Excuse me, how many of you are sleeping under there?” a nasal voice yelled into the cardboard box my mama and me were sleeping...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Open up your world with the SF International Arts Festival

Caitlin Donohue - May 22, 2019

ARTS FORECAST Sure you're broke — so let the artists from Hong Kong, Ireland, and the Czech Republic come to you? Such is the...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ‘War and Peace’ thrills in its gargantuan spectacle

Dennis Harvey - May 22, 2019

The movies suffered an approximately 15 year case of elephantiasis starting in the early 1950s, when television began to seriously impact box-office returns. Hollywood’s...

Onstage

Cal Shakes begins new season fostering fresh voices in theater

Emily Wilson - May 20, 2019

The people working at California Shakespeare Theater go all in when it comes to equity and inclusion. That means along with its program to expand...

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