March 25, 2016
Battling biologists at Aurora Theatre
A duet for women earns praise at Aurora Theatre
Two women battle it out at Aurora Theatre’s intimate Harry’s UpStage, in Sarah...
March 2016
March 21, 2016
SF Playhouse stages a football play
Touchdown at SF Playhouse
“The reason you got hurt,” the physical therapist tells his young football-player client, in Andrew Hinderaker’s...
March 19, 2016
Trajal Harrell at Cal Performances
At the beginning of the performance the choreographer Trajal Harrell announces that what will be presented is not The Ghost of Montpellier Meets...
March 15, 2016
San Francisco Ballet’s Program 5 opens
The incredible lightness of ballet
San Francisco Ballet opened its Program 5 on Wednesday with two repertory pieces: Jerome Robbins’ lovely Dances at a Gathering and Yuri Possokhov’s Swimmer....
March 11, 2016
Cypress Quartet’s last “Call and Response” program in SF
Celebrating the end of a run…
After 20 years of power and finesse, the Cypress String Quartet announced that they will be retiring as a group at the end of this season. That announcement came at their final “Call and Response” concert last Friday, March 11 at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater.
This quartet, internationally famed for their depth and rich soundscape, is also locally known for their generosity to Bay Area students, and...
March 6, 2016
Island Opera Company performs “La Bohème”
Bohemians in Alameda!
A friend once complained to me that Berlin had four opera houses, as if that were unconscionable. An outrageous waste! It never occurred to me that there could be too much...