Arts & Entertainment <em>Misfit Cabaret</em> Stars A Talented Nightclub Diva Stuck In A Screwball Variety Show You won’t find a more magnificent and talented nightclub singer belting it out on a San Francisco stage this weekend than Kat Robichaud, whose lounge revue Misfit Cabaret opened last night at
Arts & Entertainment Roundabout Theater Company's <i>Cabaret</i> Is One For Our Times I would never have thought a musical that originated in 1966, became more famous as a movie in 1972, and started as a short novel published in 1939, would feel so completely and
Arts & Entertainment 'Twisted Cabaret' Juggles Audience Discomfort For Maximum Comic Value Thursday night’s opening of Twisted Cabaret at the Great Star Theater contained a circus trick so graphic and repulsive that even Tourettes Without Regrets host Jamie DeWolf ran from his second-row seat
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Lady Bunny On Her Fu****-Up New Show 'Pig In A Wig' One of the most influential (and curvy) figures in the history of modern drag culture, Lady Bunny hops in from New York City this weekend for a three-night run of her new cabaret
Arts & Entertainment Justin Vivian Bond Revives First SF Cabaret Act, 'Dixie McCall's Patterns For Living,' In NYC Trans performer Justin Vivian Bond, née Justin Bond, got v's start in San Francisco and v, by the way, is Mx. Bond's preferred pronoun. Bond's first cabaret endeavor in 1990, intended at the
Arts & Entertainment More Big Broadway Names Headlining Feinstein's This Summer Showing that they have more booking power and a greater taste for musical theater than their predecessors at the Rrazz Room, the folks at new cabaret venue Feinstein's at the Nikko have just
Arts & Entertainment Go Hear This Tonight: Sandra Bernhard Although an LA Times review recently (and somewhat oddly) described Sandra Bernhard as "a walking-talking blogger before blogs were invented," you won't find any cat GIFs or food porn at her one-woman show,
Arts & Entertainment Jazz Hands: Sutton Foster To Inaugurate Michael Feinstein's New S.F. Cabaret Out of the ashes of the Rrazz Room rises a new cabaret, one that will whet the appetites of show queens throughout the land. Helmed by Michael Feinstein (who, by the way, was
Arts & Entertainment The Rrazz Room Turned Four, And Linda Lavin Was There The Rrazz Room (and yes, it has two Rs), the cabaret venue located off the lobby in the Hotel Nikko, celebrated its fourth anniversary Rrazziversary last night with a star-studded cast of favorite
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/2: 'Bill Cunningham, New York' FILM: The delightful documentary, Bill Cunningham, New York, makes a brief stint at the S.F. Film Society, which explores the life of elusive 80-year-old New York Times Style photographer and unlikely man-about-town.
Arts & Entertainment NYE Music Choice: Veronica Klaus You've already read about her. (And if you haven't, you should!) Isn't it time you heard her live? Yes. Yes, it is. We're talking about Veronica Klaus, one of the Bay Area's finest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/22: Shwayze & Cisco Adler, Veronica Klaus, Tango Throwdown & Lesson HIP-HOP: Hip-hop collaborators Shwayze & Cisco Adler will be at the Independent in support of their new album, Island in the Sun, which is a "tribute to the life of deceptive leisure the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/20: Hip Hop DanceFest, Cabaret Showcase Showdown, <em>Dragonslayer</em> DANCE: The 13th Annual SF Hip Hop Dancefest concludes tonight with its Program B performances, featuring local, national, and international acts. (6 p.m., Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street) CABARET:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/22: Katya Back in the USSR, Sheila McClear 'Last of the Live Nude Girls', Mister Heavenly CABARET: Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy is at the Rrazz Room tonight and tomorrow night performing her "voyage into the Beatles song book,"Back in the USSR, which is described as "Abby Road meets the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/27: Thao & Mirah, Jeremy Bailenson: Infinite Reality, Guerrila Cabaret Open Mic MUSIC: RSVP now to attend a free outdoor show featuring an acoustic performance by local, Kill Rock Stars duo, Thao & Mirah, at Americano at Hotel Vitale as part of the Soundcheck 2011
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/14: Smut Capital of America, Litquake's Cabaret Bastille, Lower Polk Art Walk FILM: YBCA kicks off its series, Smut Capital of America, which features Michael Stabile’s in-progress documentary that chronicles San Francisco's reign as the center of porn production in the U.S. during
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Countess Katya Cabaret, Bike From Work Party, and Good Magazine's Good Design SF Competition CABARET: It's opening night of The Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy's Katya Takes You Home, a comedic romp around the world with "San Francisco's favorite Russian countess opera diva turned Macy's cosmetic counter lady," who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CABARET: Tony Award nominee Justin Vivian Bond, who has been described by the New Yorker as "the greatest cabaret artist of his generation.....an artful truth telling illusionist," celebrates the release of his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of classic indie rock performed by a couple of its originators, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Get a double-dose of David Lowery and Frank Funaro. 7:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: French New Wave classic, Breathless, which popularized the jump cut and the hand-held camera, along with the "Belmondo pout and the boho waif", is at the Red Vic through tomorrow night. 7:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CABARET: "Lose yourself in a haze of haute harlots, high-kicking hedonists, and howling humorists" at Hello, Folly! Revue 2, featuring a menagerie of song, dance, whimsy, and comedy. 8 p.m. // Amnesia (853
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: RAW (resident artist workshop) presents choreographer Aura Fischbeck Dance, who will be sharing a new improvisational work entitled “moment studies, too,” which incorporates the expression of the body in the present moment,
