Festival Report | Jan 23, 2012

Wet Hot American Summer, The Groundlings and More at SF Sketchfest

You may have missed the cast reunion performance of the classic 2001 summer camp movie classic, but there is still much left to see at SF Sketchfest. By Lizzy Acker   

Performance | Jan 19, 2012

See All Knows All

When Sonny Smith performs at David Ireland's house, you don't ask questions, you buy tickets to this new, experimental "thing" called Sees All Knows All, written and performed by Sonny Smith with musical accompaniment. By Kristin Farr   

Theater Review | Dec 22, 2011

They Brought It.

Bring it On, the Musical mocks its genre while serving up quality music and movement. This largely tongue-in-cheek show blends sincerity with sharp satire. By Erika Milvy   

Theater Review | Dec 15, 2011

Too Cool by Half: 'The Wild Bride' is Cluttered with Creativity

Aiming for boldly eclectic, Kneehigh Theater's The Wild Bride throws every artistic choice -- including the kitchen sink -- at its audience. It's a valiant effort at avant-garde eclecticism that results in a barrage of clutter. By Erika Milvy   

Performance | Dec 14, 2011

The Art of Doing It Yourself

View The Art of Doing It Yourself, a short, KQED-produced documentary that reveals the Bay Area as a haven for quirky, rebellious and visionary artists. By KQED Television   

Event | Dec 10, 2011

A 2-Minute Set: 100 Performances in the Hole

Tonight is going to be a wild night at SOMArts gallery with 100 performers descending into "the hole," a mechanic's pit turned sunken stage. The fun starts at 5:58pm this evening, Sat., Dec 10, and runs -- quickly -- to midnight. By Jeremiah Barber   

Theater Review | Nov 22, 2011

Fela! Is That Rare Broadway Musical That Earns Its Exclamation Point

Bill T Jones' Tony-winning dance-theater production charts the phenomenal career of Fela Kuti, an adored icon, a political activist, an agitprop firebrand and the originator Afrobeat music in the late '60s and the '70s. By Erika Milvy   

Theater Review | Nov 08, 2011

Working for the Mouse at the Exit Theatre

Trevor Allen's 80-minute monologue about life inside Pluto, Mad Hatter and other character costumes at Disneyland is a self-described coming-of-age tale, with all the sentimentality that accompanies such yarns. By Ben Marks   

Event | Oct 27, 2011

Rob Spoor, Master of Scare-a-monies

This weekend marks the return of Rob Spoor's free ghost hunting tours of San Francisco's City Hall and Palace Hotel. By Marion Anthonisen   

Event | Oct 25, 2011

Desdemona Speaks Her Piece in New Toni Morrison-Peter Sellars Production

Renowned for brazenly refashioning classics, Sellars latest riff on Shakespeare's Othello is an original play, written by Toni Morrison, about Othello's wife, Desdemona. By Erika Milvy   

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Performing Arts
  • New Staging Of 'Yentl' Tells A Transgender Story

    Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule is best known for her hit single "I Kissed a Girl." But today she's taking on a new kind of project: writing original music for a new staging of the play Yentl. Her version shares little with Barbra Streisand's movie musical.

  • 'Backstage With' Fred Willard And Martin Mull

    Martin Mull and Fred Willard are comic partners in many minds. They helped create Fernwood Tonight in the late 1970s, and while they went on to solo careers in films and stage, they were reunited to play one of TV's first gay couples on Roseanne. Host Scott Simon sat down with the duo for the public television show Backstage With.

  • In Broadway's 'Wit,' A Documentary Of Our Demise

    Cynthia Nixon, best known for her glamorous role in Sex and the City, stars in a Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. Jeff Lunden talks with Nixon — and Wit's playwright Margaret Edson — about depicting disease and pain with humor.

  • Ralph Fiennes On Taking Risks With 'Coriolanus'

    Ralph Fiennes is known for being a multi-faceted character actor. On film, he's immersed himself in roles as varied as a Hungarian count to one of the most memorable screen villains, Lord Voldemort. But his latest role, as Shakespeare's Coriolanus, may be one of his most challenging, the actor says.

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Noise Pop: Comedy and Music

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