Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Between Riverside and Crazy</i> at A.C.T. The season opener at ACT's Geary Theater is an angry play, and an urban play, and it's also an entirely sophisticated, provoking, and redemptive profile of one angry, aging, urban black man. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Visit, The Perfect Guy, Wolf Totem The Visit - Everywhere The good news is, M. Night Shyamalan has made his best movie in years. The bad news is, it's another damned found footage horror movie. The divorced mother (Kathryn
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Phantom Of The Opera</i> At The Orpheum Since its premier in 1986, Andrew Lloyd Weber's The Phantom of the Opera has broken records as the longest-running Broadway musical of all time, and has played San Francisco more than once. It
Arts & Entertainment Women Of A Certain Age Rule 'Grandma' And 'Learning To Drive' Unless you're Meryl Streep or Diane Keaton, good, complex leading roles for Actresses of a Certain Age can be hard to come by. Which is why it's refreshing that we have two movies
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Matilda, The Musical' At The Orpheum Theater Local fans of Roald Dahl's 1988 children's novel Matilda have likely been eager to see the Royal Shakespeare Company's five-year-old musical based on it, which is a dark and boisterous adaptation by director
Arts & Entertainment The Day Cynicism Took A Holiday: Batkid Begins I had barely dried the tears from my face after seeing Inside Out when I had to go to a screening of the documentary Batkid Begins. Just as I feared, I was overcome
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Love and Information' at A.C.T. The inaugural production at A.C.T.'s brand new Strand Theater on Market Street promised to be edgy, challenging, and envelope-pushing in ways that the theater company can't always be given the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: ‘Club Inferno’ at The Hypnodrome Club Inferno, a glam-rock musical based on Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ and playing at The Hypnodrome through August 8, had me at “glam-rock musical based on Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’”. A revival of
Arts & Entertainment An Extraordinary Thing: Inside Out It's basically a given that if the movie comes from Pixar, I'm going to be crying at some point. Maybe within the first 10 minutes (Up); or closer to the end (Toy Story
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Sufjan Stevens at the Fox There are moments during shows at the Fox Theater when the majesty of the space lends its cathedral-like weight to the performer on stage, elevating their music to the eternal plane of hymns.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'A Little Night Music' At A.C.T. I'll admit up front that A Little Night Music may be my favorite Sondheim score. It may not have the pop-music bounce of Company or the sweeping sentimentality of Into the Woods, but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: One Man, Two Guvnors at Berkeley Rep As the local theater season winds to a close at two of our major companies, Berkeley Rep and A.C.T., there are two fun and splashy productions closing out their mainstage schedules.
Arts & Entertainment Porn Stars And Fans Glam It Up At 'Marriage 2.0' Premiere At The Victoria Most pornographic films do not have glamorous red carpet theatrical premiere events. That's because most pornographic films have names like “Anal MILF Bunnies 38” and are shot on video in a span of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Tartuffe' at Berkeley Rep You don't need to be a scholar of theater to have heard of Tartuffe, or its acclaimed playwright Molière. Molière, like Shakespeare before him, was both an actor and playwright and has come
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Middlemarch In Spring' At Z Space Feminism viewed through the prism of Victorian literature seems so quaint today. Composer Allan Shearer and librettist Claudia Stevens picked up one of the story lines from George Eliot's 1872 classic Middlemarch, appended
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Breaking the Code: The Alan Turing Story' at the Eureka Theater Another helping of Alan Turing homage is being served at the Eureka Theater these next few weeks with Theatre Rhinoceros’ “Breaking the Code”, which premiered Saturday night and runs through March 21. Following
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Week in Classical Music This week's lineup of classical music events for you to consider: I was sad to miss Sasha Cooke with the Berkeley Symphony last week in a premiere by Jake Heggie. I liked her
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Cathedrals At Noise Pop by George McIntire San Francisco electronic-rock outfit Cathedrals have witnessed their buzz skyrocket in the past year. With two EPs and a handful of shows to their name, they managed to fill The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play' at A.C.T. I'll just start by explaining that Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play is not a play about The Simpsons. It may rely heavily on The Simpsons, specifically the 1993 episode of the show titled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'X's and O's' at Berkeley Rep The latest production at Berkeley Rep, the second commission this season to come out of their new incubator program The Ground Floor, is subtitled "A football love story." But the play, X's and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Indian Ink</i> at A.C.T. It is a mark of a great playwright when even his lesser works are filled with delight and intelligence of the highest order, and such is the case with Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Blithe Spirit' Starring Angela Lansbury A new production of Noel Coward's classic occult farce, Blithe Spirit, opened in San Francisco last night by way of London, where star Angela Lansbury earned nightly standing ovations at the Gielgud Theater
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Cable Car Nymphomaniac' from The FOGG Theatre We don't often get to see world-premiere musicals in San Francisco, let alone ones set in San Francisco A.C.T.'s Tales of the City in 2011 being one major exception. So
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'S**t & Champagne' At Oasis Heklina’s new nightclub Oasis opened its theatrical side last night with Shit & Champagne, D’Arcy Drollinger’s fantastic drag farce that originally ran last year at the space formerly known as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Kinky Boots</i> at the Orpheum The Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2013, Kinky Boots, is currently in a four-week run at the Orpheum Theater, and it's a show that's guaranteed to attract the adoration of drag fans everywhere.
