Arts & Entertainment SF Theaters Announce Next Season Lineups Including 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'Mean Girls,' 'Six,' and 'The Wizard of Oz' 'Dear Evan Hanson' is returning to the Bay Area next winter, the West End and Broadway hit 'Six' is coming to town next year, and ACT is bringing in a new show by the acrobat troupe that created 'Dear San Francisco.'
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'Hamlet' Lets A Veteran Classical Actor Shine, If Perhaps A Bit Too Late The role of Hamlet is a holy-grail, bucket-list thing for many actors eager to prove they can command a stage for over three hours and convincingly deliver the many famous soliloquies of the
Arts & Entertainment 'Janis Joplin' At ACT Is An Intoxicating Summer Of Love Jukebox Musical There is currently an overflowing, lovin’ spoonful of Summer of Love commemorations in San Francisco, from street fairs to outdoor concerts to retail window displays but none of them really offers a plausible
Arts & Entertainment 'Battlefield' At ACT Offers Some Ancient Wisdom On War, Not A Lot Else I'm willing to accept that, perhaps, I am not the right audience for the work of Peter Brook the acclaimed English theater and film director who once brought the epic Indian myth The
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'John' Is A Weird, Delicious Treat Annie Baker's latest play , currently running at ACT's Strand Theatre, is a story about truth, lies, madness, God, ghosts, and Vienna Fingers, although not necessarily in that order. John is set in a
Arts & Entertainment 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' At ACT Is Powerful If Painful The Afghanistan of A Thousand Splendid Suns is not one of splendor. The play's title is a reference to brighter, long past moments in Kabul's history — when women were once freer than they
Arts & Entertainment Bill Irwin's 'On Beckett' Is A Sweet If Rambling Tribute To An Actor's Favorite Playwright Most actors pay lip service to the all-important role of playwrights and screenwriters, saying something cliché to the effect of "I'm nothing without his/her words." But most actors are also great egotists
Arts & Entertainment 'The Realistic Joneses' Is A Realistic Portrayal Of The Awkwardness Of Illness, And Also Not Just open as of last night at ACT, The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno is a sometimes difficult, awkwardly funny, and starkly modern play that delves into the lives of two couples suffering
Arts & Entertainment 'The Unfortunates' At A.C.T.'s Strand Theater Is A Brash, Messy, Genre-Bending Musical For A New Age In what's arguably the first piece of gutsy, experimental theater to hit the stage at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater the ostensible mission of which is to provide space for more experimental
Arts & Entertainment From Macbeth to Coward: A Bay Area Winter Theater Preview Now that the holidays are behind us, we can focus on the ongoing and upcoming seasons of our best local theater companies. And assuming you like live theater and don't always know what's
Arts & Entertainment Peeking Inside The Historic, Almost-Open Strand Theater, A.C.T.'s New Second Home On Market Street Now after three years of fundraising and construction, SF's American Conservatory Theater is getting set to show the public its brand new performance space on mid-Market, The Strand Theater (1117 Market at 7th)
Arts & Entertainment First Look: A.C.T. Reveals Redesigned Strand Theater Back in February, news that the American Conservatory Theater would be investing in the Strand Theater renewed our hopes for the troubled stretch of mid-Market. Today, courtesy of the Planning Department, we get
Arts & Entertainment All The World's a Stage To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Geary Theater, ACT held a giant open house, with demonstrations, discussions and -- best of all -- the chance to wander around nearly every corner of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview With Lillian Groag, Director of ACT's <em>War Music</em> ACT's latest production, War Music, which has its world premiere tonight (buy tickets here) is a modern retelling of The Illiad adapted from Christopher Logue's new translation of the epic poem. We spoke
misc Interview: Jane Anderson Photo by Kevin Berne We saw “Quality of Life” at ACT the other night and can’t recommend it highly enough. The star-studded cast members each give exceptionally compelling performances. The play’s
Arts & Entertainment Sam Shepard's <em>Curse of the Starving Class</em> at A.C.T. Curse of the Starving Class, directed by Peter DuBois, is about a dysfunctional family who's constantly wishing for a piece of the "American pie." "Effort" seems to be a foreign concept to this
