April 2017 – Repeat Performances

April 28, 2017

San Francisco Ballet’s enchanting “Cinderella”

San Francisco Ballet opened its captivating production of Cinderella this past weekend, showing again how deeply rooted folk and fairy tales reside in our hearts and minds. And how well suited ballet is to their imaginative...

Categories: dance

April 23, 2017

Cutting Ball Theater’s Phèdre

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Roomful of Teeth in the Taube Atrium

Dreams and sonnets Roomful of Teeth brought their vocal magic to the Bay Area on Sunday, April 23, courtesy of the SF Opera and SF Performances, who joined together to welcome this exhilarating octet. Performing to a sold out show in the newly renovated Taube Atrium Theater above Herbst, it was clear from their first entrance that the four women and four men who make up this group have created a canvas for the human voice that partakes of the whispering of rock stars...

Categories: music

April 12, 2017

“Let the Body Speak” in the poetry of dance

Alonzo King Lines Ballet collaborates with poet Bob Holman Collaboration is core to the ballets presented by Alonzo King Lines Ballet. Over the years the company has collaborated with mezzos and bassos singing classical art songs, jazz singers, jazz...

Categories: dance

April 5, 2017

“Needles and Opium” at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater

The poetics of Robert Lepage Asking whether one prefers Robert Lepage’s theater or the theater of, say, Annie Baker, is like asking whether one prefers poetry to novels. Where most...

Categories: theater