Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Mills College Will Sell Rare Shakespeare's Folio And Original Mozart Score Mills College has struggled over the past several years to make up for a multi-million dollar deficit. Now, the college is selling their treasured copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio and an authentic, handwritten musical score by Mozart as a means to financially catch up.
Arts & Entertainment 'MacBitch' At The Exit Theatre Is A Hilarious Tina Fey-ification Of The Shakespeare Classic SFist’s stance on deplorable teens is well-documented, so we were naturally intrigued to see a new Macbeth send-up that uses inadequately monitored teenagers as symbols of bloodthirsty ambition. MacBitch, playing through August
Arts & Entertainment 16 Best Litquake Events To Book On Your Calendar The annual literary phenomenon known as Litquake is now held in 13 cities around the world, but just like with Major League Baseball teams — the best one is in San Francisco. Litquake was
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Shakespeare In A Bar Tonight at the Cafe Royale in Russian Hill, the San Francisco Theater Pub Company will end their summer season with a production of Bill Shakespeare's Measure for Measure while you get pleasantly drunk.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Kevin Spacey in 'Richard III' at the Curran Theater Kevin Spacey makes a great villain. We were remembering this recently when some basic cable channel was playing Se7en, and he of course won his first Oscar for playing Keyser Söze in The
SF News New Kabuki Theater to Save Planet Earth, Or Something Like That Japantown's new Sundance Cinemas Kabuki will offer the more discerning moviegoer (i.e.. people who self-consciously laugh out loud during Shakespeare comedies) something, well, more. Curbed SF has the full rundown on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Completely Hollywood (abridged): The Reduced Shakespeare Company's latest stage play skewers "Tinseltown's most lauded stars and starlets" ranging from the silent era to today's most beloved and pretentious independent films. The curtain
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marke B judges a damp jockstrap contest come midnight at ‘70s/‘80s retro dance club “The Rod.” Damn perverts. All of them. Goes from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Always mean to get out to Orinda to see the summer Shakespeare? This year, it's Richard III, and tonight's preview is the first performance. $32 for tonight, and prices will go
misc SFist Contest: David Gordon's Pick Up Performance- Dancing Henry Five Anyways, enter away if you want to go-- we'll announce winners on Thursday. Good luck!
Arts & Entertainment And the Winner Is.... Anyhoo, the winner for best picture is Little Children and no, it's not the prequel to "Little Woman." It's a movie that was out for a bout a week, starring Kate Winslet about
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Monologue at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Never underestimate the power of silly. Besides, not all theater has to be Theater. Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford mix Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett's existential
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Review and Preview at Berekley Repertory Theatre The best theater experiences happen when you go in not knowing what to expect, and then the show blows you away. If you agree, then stop reading right now
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Horror and Blood at The Hypnodrome It appears the rumors of The Hypnodrome's demise were greatly exaggerated--or, the Thrillpeddlers got a stay of execution (aka "the landlord is selling the building"). That's good news for us,
SF News The SFist NFL Preview: We Break the Season Down a Day Late And a Dollar Short There's usually two ways we go about doing this. One of them is to compare something in sports to something in pop culture. Like "What Member of the 2006 Yankees is Like a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog Goes to Ashland on the Elizabethan Stage A sort of poor man's As You Like It, Two Gents covers the same terrain as many of the Bard's comedies. A couple of young men travel from Verona
SF News Thou Dost Protest Too Much The bill actually came up for a vote but Sandoval pushed it aside to a committee, claming that he can't really support the bill because even he's having trouble speaking English, Shakespeare style.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Live on the Edge at Intersection for the Arts Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch is one of the most exciting younger artists San Francisco has to offer, and has blown our mind with her past two shows. This
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Selected Shakespeare San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Free Shakespeare in the Park returns with starring the magnificent Julian Lopez-Morrilas as Prospero. (If you haven't seen this man in action, you're missing out.) Local director Kenneth Kelleher
Arts & Entertainment Bar of Contemporary Art Opens with New Works from Nathalia Edenmont The atmosphere inside was pleasant enough albeit a bit stark, but what won us over was the stunning large-format photography of Nathalia Edenmont. Strikingly brilliant in color and equally unsettling in imagery, Edenmont’
Arts & Entertainment The Hastily Assembled Adventures of the Superfisters We also enjoyed the genre-experimentation of "Doc Frankenstein," a series of books set in a universe in which Frankenstein's monster survived and evolved into a mercenary, a liberal activist, and an enemy of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Allen Salkin For the uninitiated, Festivus was the holiday Frank Costanza cooked up in lieu of Christmas and features a Festivus Pole instead of a Christmas Tree. Families get together, stage the "Airing of Grievances"
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Portia, From Grateful Dogs A wonderful companion dog! Portia is a 50 lbs. bearded collie/terrier mix who was displaced recently when her elderly owner passed away. She is adjusting and would love to connect with another
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: New and Reinvented This week we bring you a crucifixion, ghetto Shakespeare and mean people in love. Because why get vanilla ice cream when you can get, say, caramel ice cream with fudge chunks and cookie
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Smorgasbord This week we take you from Orinda to Fort Mason to the Artaud Building for Shakespeare, an Irish story and a reimagined Greek myth. at Bruns Amphitheater It's your last chance to catch
