June 2017 – Repeat Performances

June 30, 2017

Shakespearean fun in Marin

Never too much ado ... Summer’s here, hurrah! And with it the delightful Marin Shakespeare Company’s annual festival under the skies. Kicking off the season is Much Ado About Nothing, which opened this past weekend. Other plays in the season...

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June 24, 2017

SFDanceworks’ lovely second season

The dancer leans back, one leg extended, arms held close to the body, creating a long diagonal line from toe to head. He steps forward, leaning in the opposite direction, creating a second long diagonal. He then pulls both feet together, and stands upright, his arms...

Categories: dance

June 23, 2017

Joe Goode celebrates with a retrospective

Living the here and now forever Joe Goode seems ambivalent about the 30-year-anniversary celebration of the Joe Goode Performance Group. “30 years. How is it even possible?” he writes in...

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MTT and SF Symphony in “Music for a Modern Age.”

A spectacle! A spectacle! Michael Tilson Thomas and the SF Symphony put on a grand show last Friday, June 23, that went considerably beyond inventive and at times approached genius. Billed as “Music for a Modern Age,” the program opened with Charles Ives’ 1908 musings on tonality and life, and then ended with George Antheil’s 1925 in-your-face Jazz Symphony. In between were the West Coast Premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas’ own...

Categories: music

June 17, 2017

“La Bohème” at San Francisco Opera

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June 14, 2017

A.C.T. presents “A Night with Janis Joplin”

A sunnier Janis sings the Blues A Night with Janis Joplin opened at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater this past week. Like all authorized biographies it presented a more acceptable...

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