SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Honor Of <i>Showgirls! The Musical!</i>, Drag Star Peaches Christ Gets Ice Cream Named After Her Over at Humphry Slocombe, starting August 1, you'll be able to enjoy a new ice cream flavor named in honor of the great San Francisco drag star Peaches Christ, and her new West
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 Director Talks About <i>Amélie</i> The Musical, Premiering Soon At Berkeley Rep The beloved French film Amélie (2001) has been turned into a musical which will be having its world premiere in September at Berkeley Rep. The book is by acclaimed playwright Craig Lucas (Prelude
Arts & Entertainment Frances McDormand Coming To Berkeley Rep Next Season In <em>Macbeth</em> Oscar winner and all around terrific actress and person Frances McDormand will be starring as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dark and murderous Macbeth, next season at Berkeley Rep. The addition to the 2015-2016
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner Number Added To <i>Beach Blanket Babylon</i> San Francisco's, and the world's, longest running musical revue Beach Blanket Babylon, which always tries to revise the show to reflect, and mock, current events, has just added a new number featuring a
Arts & Entertainment New Theater Company Debuts Story Of Infamous 'Cable Car Nymphomaniac' A new local theater company, the Fogg Theatre, launches this month with a world premiere of an original musical based on an infamous tabloid tale from the 1960s, and it's called The Cable
Arts & Entertainment Join Me As I Live-Tweet From Backstage At 'Chicago' Tuesday Night Playing now at the Orpheum Theater is the newest touring production of Chicago, direct from Broadway. The cast includes J. Peterman himself, John O'Hurley in the role of attorney Billy Flynn, and a
Arts & Entertainment Now Playing: A New Musical About Primordial Yeasts, From The Quirky Creators of 'Urinetown' When Urinetown co-creator Greg Kotis went to see a production of Antigone at a theater festival in Transylvania, it got him thinking about writing something that was about a story even more ancient.
Arts & Entertainment Interactive 'Speakeasy' Play, With Its Own Bar And Casino, Premieres This Week This Friday, a new experience in "immersive" theater is debuting at an undisclosed location in the Tenderloin where you'll need a password to enter (kind of like at Bourbon & Branch, the 8-year-old
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Teams Up With Kink.com For 'Black Watch' 'Black Watch,' which opened last night at the Armory Community Center. Photo: Brenden Mendoza The American Conservatory Theater's latest production, Black Watch, is making use of a new space some of you
Arts & Entertainment 'Book of Mormon' Returns to SF This Fall Good news for theater fans, and South Park fans, and fans of all things funny and awesome. The Book of Mormon is returning to S.F., this time to the Orpheum Theater, for
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep's New Season to Kick Off With 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' Excellent news for Christopher Durang fans: The absurd comic playwright's latest Broadway hit, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, will be the opening play of Berkeley Rep's 2013-14 season, fresh off of
Arts & Entertainment Spring Theater Preview Spring is officially here, after a very spring-like winter, and now it's time to bring you a roundup of theater happenings around the Bay Area as our local theater companies wind down their
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: The Magic Theater's Free Readings at A.C.T.'s Costume Shop In 2011, The American Conservatory Theater (ACT) opened up a new, small performance space in the building they own near 7th and Market that also houses their costume shop, which they've dubbed The
Arts & Entertainment 'Tinsel Tarts In A Hot Coma,' The Latest Cockettes Revival, Opens April 4 Fans of local theater and the fabulous, nostalgic, psychedelic-influenced performance art of The Cockettes will be thrilled to hear that another of the long-defunct group's seminal works is getting a revival this spring.
Arts & Entertainment Next Up in Retro TV Drag Queen Parodies: 'Roseanne' Heklina has been hard at work this summer expanding her repertoire of drag-queen re-enactments of old TV sitcom scripts, and expanding her repertory company of drag performers to help re-enact them. For years
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep Announces Return of Britain's Kneehigh Troupe, Hints at Upcoming Partnership Britain's Kneehigh Theatre Company, which has brought a couple of notable and pretty fantastic shows to the Bay Area in the last three years, will be bringing back their hit The Wild Bride
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. to Host Benefit Reading of Dustin Lance Black's Prop 8 Play '8' This fall, A.C.T. will be hosting the Bay Area premiere of Dustin Lance Black's play based on the 2010 Prop 8 trial in federal district court in San Francisco. The event
Arts & Entertainment Theater Preview: 'Humor Abuse' Returns for Second Run at A.C.T. Back by popular demand, the one-man show Humor Abuse by writer/performer Lorenzo Pisoni is re-opening next week at A.C.T. for another two-week run. The show got a rave from Hurwitt
Arts & Entertainment 'One-Man Star Wars' Guy Returns to San Jose With 'One-Man Lord of the Rings' Canadian performer Charles Ross, who delighted the geeks of geekdome down in Silicon Valley last year with his One-Man Star Wars, returns to San Jose Rep to do his other show, a one-man
Arts & Entertainment Theater Preview: 'Salomania' at the Aurora Theater Closing out the 20th annual season at Berkeley's Aurora Theater is a new play by Mark Jackson, and it's the theater's first new play commission under artistic director Tom Ross. It's called Salomania,
Arts & Entertainment 'Elektra,' 'Streetcar,' and 'Arcadia' All Part of A.C.T.'s Upcoming Season The American Conservatory Theater announced their 2012-13 season today, and it includes a new translation of Elektra which will feature Olympia Dukakis and be directed by artistic director Carey Perloff, and a new
Arts & Entertainment ODC/Dance Kicks Off Season With Piece About 'Mad Men'-Era Women One of the pieces that are part of the inaugural program of ODC/Dance's 41st season is called "Breathing Underwater," and the piece grew out of an earlier work by choreographer/ODC founder
Arts & Entertainment 'Book Of Mormon' Coming To S.F. In November Great news for musical-theater and South Park fans who haven't made it to New York to see the Tony Award-winning hit Book of Mormon: The touring company is coming to San Francisco, for
