For Orson Opening Some Wore Chocolate

Having fun on a Monday night—what a genius idea! Who else could have came up with it but the ultimate fun pastry chef and her life partner— ...

SFMOMA Welcomes Spring with Refreshing Photography Show ‘Friedlander’

Multiple reflections in store windows, awkward facial expressions of people caught mid-blink or half-smile, desert cacti entangled in dry tr...

Illuminata, a photo group, presents 'Transformation'

Illuminata, a group of four photographers, exhibits photographs that explore the concept of transformation in the Kings Gallery at the SF Fi...

Archaic Legend Comes Fresh as Daisy in SF Ballet’s Giselle

This year marks 75th anniversary of San Francisco Ballet , and one of the oldest classic ballets—Giselle, premiered in Paris in 1841, now pr...

Carrie Fisher Tells Tales from the Hollywood Edge at Berkeley Rep

Nothing soothing about this storyteller, but you’ll laugh your head off, guaranteed. Dressed like Norma Desmond , kicking her shoes off, str...

My One Night Stand at Occidental

Suppose, some special people in your life gave you a gift certificate to the Inn at Occidental , listed in the Select Registry of Distinguis...

Nina Ananiashvili Charms Cal Performances in Her Ballet’s West Coast Debut

The former Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina and a guest principal dancer for American Ballet Theatre, Nina Ananiashvili made a shooting-star a...

Gentlemen Rebels Gilbert and George Invade de Young

What looks from afar like cathedral windows, is filled with images of all things sinful: a symbol of faith formed by human excrement, fronta...

Moiseyev Dance Company Triumphant at Cal Performances

As electrifying and refined as ever, the famous Russian Folk Dance Ensemble performed to a constant ovation at Zellerbach Hall last weekend,...

The Custom Made Theatre’s ‘Slavs!’ Compensate in Passion What They Lack in Frills

One of the many “spiritual geniuses of the Slavic people,” noted by the playwright—the ability to put mind over matter—serves the Company’s ...

Tragically Comic Will Eno Premieres His New Play at Berkeley Rep

Will Eno’s “TRAGEDY: a tragedy” is actually a comedy, if an apocalyptic comedy,” written by an exciting contemporary playwright and directed...

Speed the Plow Closes With a Bang at A.C.T.

David Mamet being the playwright of choice for the San Francisco American Conservatory Theater, (A.C.T.) his “Speed the Plow,” directed by ...

SF Ballet's Yuan Yuan Tan in Firebird Sets House on Fire

San Francisco Ballet —the oldest professional ballet company in the nation—celebrates its 75th anniversary, and Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Dir...