October 30, 2015
42nd Street Moon’s “Sail Away”
Sailing in on waves of light and laughter
The bubbly musical Sail Away, written by the incomparably witty Noel Coward, opened at 42nd Street...
Jaime Robles
October 27, 2015
ACT presents O’Neill’s “Ah, Wilderness!”
Ah, the wilderness of sentiment
For the most part, ACT puts on terrific plays, well acted and directed, with sophisticated productions. You can hardly miss going to a performance. Its current production of...
October 25, 2015
Liss Fain Dance at ODC Theater
Liss Fain Dance describes its production Your Story Was This as “an immersive performance installation.” That doesn’t give us a sense of how central dance is to the work, but it does reveal the importance of the audience and the...
October 16, 2015
Twyla Tharp celebrates new work with Cal Performances
Two Fanfares to celebrate 50 years of dance
About her recent...
October 11, 2015
SF Performances and YBCA present Sankai Juku
A study in fundamental beauty
When the lights came up again on the stark stage of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, the audience sighed.
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October 8, 2015
San Francisco Opera presents “Lucia di Lammermoor”
A friend once told me that he stopped going to opera because he got tired of watching women die. The only difference in the ending of most operas, especially the 19th-century operas, which are so often performed because of their melodic seductiveness, is how rather...