Arts & Entertainment CGI <em>Peter Pan</em> Theatrical Production Coming to Ferry Plaza While it will star neither Mary Martin nor Cathy Rigby, J M Barrie’s Peter Pan, which will be performed at "the world’s first 360-degree CGI theatre," will make its U.S.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Poncho Sanchez, conga player and leader of the most popular Latin jazz group in the world today, spins "vivacious tales that pay homage to the glories of a half-century tradition that was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Concerning Strange Devices From the Distant West</em> Seeing shows at Berkeley Rep is an exciting and revivifying experience, with new works like Green Day's American Idiot and 2008's Passing Strange that essentially do their Broadway tryouts there, and talents like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Bay Area Women in Film and Media and Intersection for the Arts present "Clips and Conversation" featuring a sneak peak at two new soon-to-be released documentary films, The Heretics and Women Art
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: fabric8 celebrates the revamping of their wood stain gallery with a new group collection of 6 in. x 12 in. originals focusing on the theme My Favorite Things. 7 to 10 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Caucasian Chalk Circle</em> at A.C.T. What do you think of when you think of Bertolt Brecht? Dreary, austere, Marxist, unemotional theater built around fable-like premises. Maybe you've heard some of the Threepenny Opera with the score by Kurt
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: RayKo’s Third Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show celebrates low-tech photography with an exhibit of imperfect yet beautiful photos shot with cheap film cameras, invoking a nostalgia for the latent image. 6
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Join established and emerging Bay Area artists for the monthly Sketch Tuesday, and score some original artwork for $5 to $30. And if there's room at the table, feel free to create
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Seminal goth/deathrock band Christian Death (fronted by Valor Kand, of course) are still at it, promoting their latest album, American Inquisition at the Red Devil tonight. 7 p.m. // The Red
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tick Tick Boom from Theatre Rhinoceros The nation's oldest queer theater organization, SF's Theatre Rhinoceros, is celebrating its 32nd season this year without a permanent space to call home, having left their space on 16th Street due to lease
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In celebration of Chinese New Year, Creativity Explored will showcase works by artists of Chinese descent in Tiger Leaping Gold Mountain. 7 to 9 p.m. // Creativity Explored (3245 16th St) // free
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: At BarBot 2010: "Get a drink from an actual robot. Chat up a snarky electronic bartender. Listen to some graceful tunes being played by robotic music makers. And, after downing your sixth
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Fantastic Fest programmer and Twitch Film critic Rodney Perkins has compiled a collection of gems from the back catalogs of now-defunct public access stations from the Bay Area and beyond in Access
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Using hand-and-rod puppets, masks, and original music created and performed by New York City’s Wakka Wakka Productions, Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz tells the story of a Polish Jew who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC:Gillian Welch and members of Old Crow Medicine Show will accompany bluegrass guitarist and harmony singer Dave Rawlings as part of the Dave Rawlings Machine at the Fillmore tonight. Rawlings will also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSICAL: The Marsh presents the Marsh Youth Theater’s (MYT’s) Teen Troupe in the premiere of The Wave, a musical by Ron Jones, based on his real-life classroom experiment on fascism that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HISTORY: Check out the Authors' Forum at the Old Mint tonight and learn about Jewish immigrant, Isaias Hellman, "creator" of California; the Chinatown police department from the Gold Rush to present day; Juana
Arts & Entertainment Donna McKechnie In 'Nice Work If You Can Get It! An Ira Gershwin Salon' Holy smokes, folks! Donna McKechnie is coming to town. Primarily known as the best dancer ever to grace the Broadway stage, McKechnie (A Chorus Line, Company, Promises, Promises) will appear in Nice Work
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Phèdre</em> at A.C.T. Classical theater is tough on many levels. It's tough on actors, who have to allude and emote using words that are often much more heady and complicated than they're used to; and it's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker DANCE: Returning for six encore performances after a sold out run in April 2009, The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories. Presented by Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton, the show features
SF News Cagney & Lacey Reunite In SF While we enjoy poking fun at the Chron, make no mistake that our love for Leah Garchik runs deep. Very deep. Take, for example, this story she broke on what could possibly be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker BOOKS: San Francisco author Jason Myers discusses his second book, The Mission. It's the story of a young man who moves to San Francisco after his brother is killed in
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Succeeds in Raising $30 Million in a Down Economy San Francisco's resident, big-budget, repertory theater, The American Conservatory Theater, announced today that they have successfully completed their $30 million endowment campaign dubbed "The Next Generation Campaign." With the help of repertory company
Arts & Entertainment Spoof of Hitchcock's <em>The 39 Steps</em> Opens at Curran Theater A theater piece spoofing Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps, which played on Broadway earlier this year and was nominated for several Tony Awards, opens at the Curran Theater this week. The
Arts & Entertainment SF Mime Troupe Celebrate 50th Anniversary This Thursday by Rachel Brodsky The San Francisco Mime Troupe aren't your every day mimes, as many of you know. They're a posse of political satirists that mimic while pointing out life's more absurd qualities.
