Arts & Entertainment 'God's Plot' Brings Puritan Comedy To Berkeley The current production in The Shotgun Players' 20th anniversary season is God's Plot, a world premiere by Bay Area playwright and director Mark Jackson. It takes as its subject the
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Gets New Home After the America's Cup pushed Teatro ZinZanni out of its current Embarcadero home, Mayor Lee announced today that the dinner-theater show's new spot will be located at a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 12/3: Papercuts MUSIC: Bay Area faves, Papercuts, whose latest album, Fading Parade, is described as "[i]magine Belle & Sebastian teaming up with Slowdive and recording with Phil Spector back when he was killing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/23: Tune-Yards, Savage In Limbo, Red Hots Burlesque MUSIC: Local 4AD duo, Tune-Yards bring their acclaimed live show to The Regency Ballroom in support of their latest album, w h o k i l l, which is heavily influenced by
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/18: Club Chuckles, Urban Art Auction, Dance Brigade COMEDY: Club Chuckles presents its 8-year anniversary show, featuring "a not-to-be-missed lineup" of heavy-hitters, including Neil Hamburger (Drag CIty), Natasha Leggero, Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/14: <em>Miss Representation</em>, Mole to Die For, <em>The Temperamentals</em> FILM: Girls in Tech presents a screening of Jennifer Seibel's acclaimed documentary, Miss Representation, which "exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/6: 'Wall Street' Sequel, Zodiac Death Valley, Poetry at City Lights FILM: Bad Movie Night kicks off its "Belated '80s Sequels" series with Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, A.V. Club notes, "The first time around,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/28: 'You Will Gonna Go Crazy,' 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' w/Yara Sofia, World Music Fest THEATER: Kularts presents You Will Gonna Go Crazy, "a hilariously sad and lyrical semi-autobiographical multimedia dance-theatre play" and coming-of-age story exploring the traumatic impacts of racist history
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Hair' at the Golden Gate Theater It's amazing how the 1960s, which much of the culture has grown tired of making reference to over the years, have managed to become way more relevant in recent weeks than
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/26: 'Death in Parallel,' 'Race,' Hans-Joachim Roedelius ART: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts presents a sneak preview of its 34th Annual Day of the Dead exhibition, Death in Parallel, featuring stories, photos, home video and personal artifacts remembering and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Kevin Spacey in 'Richard III' at the Curran Theater Kevin Spacey makes a great villain. We were remembering this recently when some basic cable channel was playing Se7en, and he of course won his first Oscar for playing Keyser Söze in The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'How to Write a New Book for the Bible' at Berkeley Rep Some plays are more beguiling and moving than you expect them to be, at least upon hearing the basic outline, and that's definitely the case with Bill Cain's How
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Announces Final Show at Pier 29 If you want to catch Teatro ZinZanni's final show at Pier 29, called On the Air, you'll need to get on it quick. The new production itself--about a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/10: Kal Spelletich Lecture, The Rileys, SORYA! A Minor Miracle (Part 1) ART: Berkeley Center for New Media presents a lecture entitled, Fear and Fun, by San Francisco based artist Kal Spelletich, who builds interactive machines, robots and installations, putting people in touch with intense
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/9: Girls/Sonny and the Sunsets, 'The Underpants', 'American Teacher' MUSIC: SF's Girls, who are said by the New York Times to have an "Elvis Costello, Buddy Holly, and The Beach Boys" sort of vibe take the stage with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 10/1: ShEvil Dead, The Great SF Read-Out, Night School THEATER: It's opening night of Primitive Screwheads' month-long comedic theater production of ShEvil Dead, in which "[f]ive girls vacation at a cabin in the woods and inadvertently
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Once in a Lifetime' at ACT Nothing ever changes in Hollywood. They think they want intelligent people to write screenplays and make creative decisions, but meanwhile they fly by the seat of their pants and often the dumbest movies
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Taming of the Shrew' at CalShakes We love when repertory companies, whose duty it is to cycle through Shakespeare's entire body of work, tackle the "tough" plays that have been deemed by modern minds to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/27: Sketch Tuesday, The Sound Of Cinema, SF Comedy Competition Semi-Finals ART: It's another installment of Sketch Tuesdays, your monthly golden opportunity to score cheap one-of-a-kind art ($5-30) that's created before your eyes by highly talented
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/23: Sink or Swim Fundraiser, Bicycle Film Fest, Alice: Down the Rwong Wrabbit Whole ART: Japan-based, PangeaSeed, and Spoke Art Gallery present the weekend-long Sink or Swim Fundraiser, their inaugural art exhibition featuring original works from thirty internationally renowned artists such as Dave Kinsey, Josh
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/21: Branford Marsalis, Wendy Wasserstein, 'Unfinished Spaces' MUSIC: Three-time Grammy winning saxophonist, NEA Jazz Master, and member of "jazz’s most storied living dynasty", Branford Marsalis, will be at Yoshi's tonight through Sunday, in support
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/19: Low, Theater Pub, 'Turandot' Talk MUSIC: Beloved "slowcore" trio Low will be at Great American tonight in support of their latest album, C'Mon, which was "[r]ecorded in an old church in Duluth,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/7: Fringe Festival, Tim Lee, Sustainable Fashion COMEDY: Ex-scientist turned comedian Tim Lee takes the stage at the Punchline. As NY Times reports, "The former biologist was Tim Lee. After completing his undergraduate biology degree at the University
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/4: 'Toke' the Play, Expanded Cinema, RAWdance THEATER: Head over to Berkeley's Ashby Theater for the delightful-sounding Toke, DeeDee Kirkwood's madcap play about "Weedee, the black sheep with the heart of gold the Auntie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/3: Shakespeare in the Park, 'Bringing Up Baby'/'Monkey Business', 'Reflection Seen' THEATER: Shakespeare in the Park kicks off its 29th season with a production of Cymbeline, which follows Princess Innogen on her search for reconciliation "against the backdrop of a colorful and magical
