Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drag <em>Golden Girls</em> It's becoming a holiday (and June) tradition for a quartet of San Francisco's finest drag talents to tackle, on the live stage, word-for-word, a selection of old episodes of The Golden Girls --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker THEATER: Fat Pig, a contemporary play by Neil LaBute, tells of the forbidden love between a handsome young man and a smart, funny, but overweight young woman. Can Tom withstand
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Tiny Kushner</em> at Berkeley Rep The production currently playing on the thrust stage at Berkeley Rep -- while American Idiot finishes out its raucous pre-Broadway run in the Roda Theater -- is Tiny Kushner, a collection of one-act
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker Nara Denning will be celebrating the release of her new DVD Neurotique with a premiere screening. Neurotique is a collection of six silent and tragic love stories set to live musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Comedian and playwright Rick Reynolds presents his hilarious and gut-wrenching personal confessions and childhood remembrances in Love, God, Sex (and and other stuff I don’t have), which is directed by Jason
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DRAG: Trannyshack and Midnight Mass host Halloween: A Party, starring Heklina as "Dracula" and Peaches Christ as "Tran Hesling," with a special performance by guest star Jackie Beat and a whole line-up of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: David Mamet's <em>November</em> at A.C.T. What do you get when a liberal, obviously embittered playwright sets out amidst the second term of the second Bush Administration to write a political satire about a conservative, buffoon-ish, sitting president whose
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the first night of Ghosts of the River at Brava Theater, which runs through November 8. Incorporating actors, shadow puppets, and music with the epic writing of Octavio Solís, the play
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight WALKING TOUR: It's that time of year again! It's the annual Ghost Walk at City Hall. Learn all about the "disinterred remains, assassinations, and other ghostly lore" surrounding city hall. If you can't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: There are two more preview nights for David Mamet's over-the-top comedy, November, which takes a satirical stab at American politics. The play was a Broadway success, and critics describe it as "one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LAUNCH PARTY: Who says print is dead? We Still Like is defying this statement by releasing their very first issue, Manifesto Destiny, a manifesto-themed collection of prose, poetry, reviews, rants, and raves. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: A new production of the Pulitzer and Tony Award Winning play The Heidi Chronicles is back at Custom Made through October 24. Heidi Holland, a successful art historian and essayist, "is driven
Arts & Entertainment Staged Readings of <em>The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later</em> on Monday The recent hate crime legislation coincides with the 11th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death after he was robbed and beaten outside of Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998. On Monday, staged readings of The Laramie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco Zen Center hosts an evening of food, literature, and film with Alix Lambert. Lambert's new book, The Silencing, is a bi-lingual case account of six murdered Russian journalists, paired
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Foul Play presents The Bride of Frankenstein: Live on Stage as part of their Attack of the Killer B-Movie Series. Performed entirely in black and white, the play will feature the original
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>South Pacific</i> at the Golden Gate Theater Theater fans may have heard about the 2008 Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific, which took home a bunch of Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Direction and Best Scenic
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Brief Encounter</i> at A.C.T. Noël Coward may have died thirty-six years ago, but his work remains as adaptable and relevant as ever, as proven in the second Bay Area production of a Coward play this year --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Catch the first preview night of the world premiere of The First Day of School, which opens SF Playhouse's seventh season. The play, which was written by Billy Aronson, creator of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of geographically diverse rock at Cafe Du Nord, featuring Australia's The Drones (dark/bluesy/psychedelic), Los Angeles' Model/Actress (noisy/high-energy indie rock), and SF's The Spyrals (ethereal/shoegaze/
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tonight kicks off the 10th Annual Electronic Music Festival, which runs through Saturday and showcases "a wide array of electronic music pioneers, modern innovators, and emerging artists, ranging in diverse styles and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Noël Coward's "Brief Encounter" at ACT Today's cleanser comes to us via the American Conservatory Theater which has brought to town an acclaimed British production of Noël Coward's "Brief Encounter" directed by Emma Rice, which opened on Friday. We'll
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: ACT has joined forces with England's Kneehigh Theatre in this limited engagement, U.S. premiere of Brief Encounter, which is "ingeniously crafted with whimsical humor, dreamy romance, and stunning multimedia effects." The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SFMOMA is holding a Memorial Service honoring Bay Area sculptor and conceptual artist David Ireland, who passed away in May. Ireland's highly idiosyncratic body of work focused on the creation and function
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: As part of the Fringe Festival, "Sexy Clown" Summer Shapiro and Peter Musante of Blue Man Group present Legs and All, a comically-cringeworthy slapstick performance in which "dinner times turn to drum
Arts & Entertainment SF Fringe Festival Tonight Through September 20 The 18th Annual Fringe Festival, which features a completely unjuried format and gives the artists total creative freedom, starts tonight. Navigating the Fringe Festival's "free form" website is a bit overwhelming, much like
