Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of high-energy indie. So, get up there and shake your skinny butts, hipsters. Passion Pit, Harlem Shakes, and Cale Parks will not let you down. 7 p.m. // Bimbo's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: The Eighth Annual Cabaret to Fight AIDS features the Company members of the San Francisco production of Wicked, including Kendra Kassebaum, Natalie Daradich, and Angel Reda. The cast will perform favorites from
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: Tix to <em>Faux Real</em> with Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique This Thursday and Friday Performance artist and dancer Monique Jenkinson will don her alter ego Fauxnique for the next three weekends at the Climate Theater, April 23 through May 9. Faux Real poses the question, "Can a
Arts & Entertainment <em>Point Break Live!</em> Every Friday Night at Cellspace After a successful six-month reign in San Francisco last year, Point Break Live!, the "internationally lauded absurdist stage adaptation" to the Keanu Reeves gem, came back to our fair city in March and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview With Lillian Groag, Director of ACT's <em>War Music</em> ACT's latest production, War Music, which has its world premiere tonight (buy tickets here) is a modern retelling of The Illiad adapted from Christopher Logue's new translation of the epic poem. We spoke
SF News Parkway Speakeasy Theater Shutters this Sunday Now for some truly sad news,.Catherine and Kyle Fischer's Parkway Speakeasy Theater in Oakland is closing its door for good after 12 years. Here's the missive sent out today to fans of
Arts & Entertainment EXIT Theater Cancels Banned Paul Lynde Show Well this just tears it. EXIT Theater announced today that it will replace the staged reading of Sean Owens’ Center Square, a one-man show based on the life of late comedian, Bye Bye
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: International Theatre Ensemble's Production of Gogol's <em>The Nose</em> Tickets are still available for this Friday and Saturday nights' performances of Nikolai Gogol's The Nose, presented by the International Theatre Ensemble at the Phoenix Theatre. SFist attended the International Theatre Ensemble's production
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: Win Tickets to Gogol's <em>The Nose</em> Friday and Saturday Night In celebration of Nicolai Gogol's 200th birthday, Phoenix Theatre and the International Theatre Ensemble present The Nose, the first installment of a multi-art experimental production of The Overcoat directed by Oleg Liptsin. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: XO Edition "Museum of Broken Relationships" Popular Croatian art exhibit featuring love-stained artifacts from anonymous folks who failed at love. The exhibit showcases objects of heartbreak such as teddy bears and photos, but also bizarre
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Artistic Director/Choreographer Jason Gilkison by Tiffany Maleshefski If there's anything that ABC's Dancing with the Stars has taught us, B- and C-list celebrities may never be cool again, but ballroom dancing, on the other hand, will be.
Arts & Entertainment SF Turns Out the Verdigris for 'Wicked' Why have Coit Tower, the Ferry Building, and City Hall literally turned green? According to SF Citizen, it's in honor of the third return of the popular Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked. The "untold
Arts & Entertainment Warhols Needed by the de Young Museum Because there's no artist San Francisco museums love to recycle more than Warhol, the de Young Museum is looking for a few good Andys. Dede Wilsey's rusty nail will hold a Warhol Live
Arts & Entertainment Film du Jour: A Queer Nativity [NSFW] A Queer Nativity from Princeton Sound System on Vimeo. Well, this looked like festive fun. A Queer Nativity, a 15 minute play that happened at Dolores Park on Saturday night, was a holiday
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Jackie Mason, Pontius Pilot, Bacchus, Mother Theresa, Mohamed, Mary Magdalene, Phil Silvers, Satan, and more come together to throw shade at Our Lord and Savior Jesus H. Christ. Conceived by locals Howard
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Cinema Needs Your Help Being Better Oh, we love the Roxie. Or rather, we love the idea of the Roxie. It's a small, yet oddly spacious seeming, theater nestled in the heart of the Mission with so much potential.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Controversial House Speaker Nancy Pelosi returns to SF to talk about and sign copies of her latest book Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters. We're pretty sure it's about
SF News American Musical Theatre of San Jose Brings the Final Curtain Down One of the South Bay's "longest-running cultural institutions," American Musical Theatre of San Jose, is calling it quits. The Broadway musical-ish theater will halt all performances this week and file for Chapter 7
misc Interview: Jane Anderson Photo by Kevin Berne We saw “Quality of Life” at ACT the other night and can’t recommend it highly enough. The star-studded cast members each give exceptionally compelling performances. The play’s
SF News California Musical Theatre Aristic Director Donated to Prop. 8 Queers are calling for a boycott of the California Musical Theatre -- at least according to the -- after discovering that its artistic director, Scott Eckern, donated $1,000 to Prop. 8. Eckern
Arts & Entertainment SFist Dance Tonight: Aire y Gracia At Project Artaud Theater In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Andanza Spanish Arts and ODC Theater present an invigorating, original work, showcasing the eclectic and rich music and dance traditions of Spain/Mexico. Zarzuela, Classical, Folkloric
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Russian on the Side</i> By Tiffany Maleshefski Several weeks ago, Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times published a review of the "Rachel Zoe Project," the either-extremely-loved-or-utterly-despised reality show on Bravo, about the trials and tribulations of
misc West-Coast Puppet APB Issued The theft happened in Oregon, but there's no Portlandist so we're just going to have to post it here and try to get the word out. Tell your friends to be on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: All she ever needed was the music and the mirror, and a chance to dance.... for you. Check out the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical you may have heard of, A Chorus Line, playing
Arts & Entertainment Sam Shepard's <em>Curse of the Starving Class</em> at A.C.T. Curse of the Starving Class, directed by Peter DuBois, is about a dysfunctional family who's constantly wishing for a piece of the "American pie." "Effort" seems to be a foreign concept to this
