Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Three Chosen Almost at Random at Exit Theatre Quick! The SF Fringe ends this week, so here's your last chance join the stampede from venue to venue to see the good, the bad and the ugly. Exit Theatre
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bay Area Tour at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sorry, this isn't the same production of Mother Courage starring Meryl Streep, which recently closed in New York. Nor is it Tony Kushner's translation of the great Brecht play,
SF News Week Around The -Ists Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Melting Pot at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts TheatreWorks revives its 1992 production of David Henry Hwang's deconstruction of Puccini's Madame Butterfly--even bringing back some of its stars. Francis Jue (recently on Broadway
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Matt Nathanson Best show you've ever played and what made it great? It's hard to pick just one but if I have to... my 6th grade talent show. I played 'message in a bottle', 'twist
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SF Underground Short Film Festival! Aw, yeah! Though the Midnight Mass film series has ended, Peaches Christ isn't done with us yet. This Saturday, she opens the doors of the Bridge Theatre for one last midnight extravaganza, The
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Debbie Does San Francisco at Eureka Theater Oh yes, yes! Finally, someone made a musical spoof of this classic porn flick. Because we were getting really tired of Rocky Horror. An off-Broadway hit (that was also big
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's All Meta at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts This is our pick for most anticipated show of the season, and the season's barely started. This multimedia performance by The Builders Association and dbox played
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Il Matriomonio Segreto We saw James Schwabacher once, at his debut recital series, which he endowed in perpetuity, and where he introduced the singers. He was 86 yo, but still had the quick wit of a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Information Overload A Sneak Peek at the Fringe at Exit Theatre Talk about advanced publicity. The SF Fringe doesn't open until September 6, but on August 9 the Exit throws its doors open to theatre
Arts & Entertainment Light Up The Roxie At 7 pm, before the showing of State of Fear (a documentary about Peruvian terrorists), the Roxie is hosting a reception, along with live Peruvian music, with all proceeds going to fix up
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
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: They Love the '70s at Marines Memorial Theatre We admit we were a little skeptical when we heard about this Janis Joplin musical. After all, remember Lennon, the musical that premiered here and closed after a month
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 Interview: Peaches Christ But when we got a release on This Year's Midnight Mass Film Series (which runs at midnights every Friday and Saturday from tonight until mid-August, see the complete schedule here), we knew we
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Radiohead at the Greek Theater Why they are still the only 90's band still standing (Pearl Jam doesn't count as people stopped caring about Pearl Jam around the same time they stopped writing decent songs) and one of
Arts & Entertainment The Treatable Adventures of the Superfisters This isn't a comic book you can approach lightly; it's a graphic novel that requires you take a few deep breaths before diving in. Childhood awfulness led Madison to dissociate herself into a
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 Philistine: the Marriage of Figaro Now, we all know where we are going with this: the last Figaro on the SF Opera stage was Nathan Gunn, in the Barber, a role he'll take again this Fall. Nathan is
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Old Lit, New School at Magic Theatre When our dreams of home ownership conjures visions of $1 million fixer-uppers and our futures are laden with credit card debt, the story of the American Dream seems about as
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joe Goode Performance Group. The music he wrote is actually the opposite of the work he conducted the night before: it is pretty minimalist, with very simple melodic lines, underscored with a few bass notes here and
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Make Us Laugh at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre All hail the trendiest celebrity vehicle--no, it's not a Hummer. It's the solo show. The likes of Billy Crystal and Martin Short have already ridden through town on them,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Oh, The Horror at Magic Theatre Killer Joe is one of the best plays so far in 2006. Why haven't you seen it, you wonder? Probably because it played way the hell up in Mill Valley,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Journey Is the Destination at Exit on Taylor After a stellar presentation of Suzan-Lori Parks's "Pickling Jar" at its Risk Is This festival last year, Cutting Ball takes on her highly experimental and rarely performed full-length Death
