September 23, 2016
Smuin’s Dance Series 01
Song to the body beautiful
Providing a sweetly diverse program of short works, Smuin presented their Dance Series 01 at the Lesher Center for the Arts this past weekend....
Jaime Robles
September 21, 2016
ACT presents Bartlett’s “King Charles III”
An ironical love letter to monarchy
...
September 18, 2016
San Francisco Opera’s dream of a “Dream”
Dream of the Red Chamber
Any moment in our lives is a distillation. Of our personal pasts, our societal setting, the slow evolution of the natural world. Theater, and arts in general, make...
September 14, 2016
San Francisco Opera presents “Andrea Chenier”
There is no revolution without words
It seems poets are at the center of San Francisco Opera’s opening productions in the 2016 season. While Dream of Red Chamber is laced with the elegant poetry...
August 19, 2016
The Lamplighters’ revision of “The Mikado”
“If you want to know who we are …”
When he is introduced into the plot of The Mikado, Ko-Ko, the tailor turned Lord High Executioner through an odd bit of topsy-turvy logic, reassures those surrounding him that he is not lacking for people he could execute. He elaborates his “little list / Of society offenders who might well be underground,/ And who never would be missed.” This is an opportunity that the Lamplighters seldom fail to take advantage of: to...
August 13, 2016
West Edge Opera presents a daring “Powder Her Face”
“She is a highly sexed woman ...”
West Edge Opera is getting a reputation. Last year it was Lulu, this year it’s...