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Fantasies for the Information Age Southside Theater is a tiny black box theater in Building D of Fort Mason, just across the hall from the Magic Theater, another favorite venue the Bay Area’s up-and-coming playwrights and...

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An ancient sound Kitka, which started out as an informal group accompanying the dance company Westwind, has traveled many paths since 1979 as both a musical ensemble...

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Theater v. history It would be a mistake to call A.C.T.’s “The Tosca Project,” which opened on the Mainstage on June 3, a history of the Tosca Café, the famous...

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"Did you pack your own bag?" As a performance artist, Pamela Z travels a lot. And that means carrying heaps of luggage through the endless labyrinths of airports and airport security. As she showed this past weekend at Theater Artaud’s Z Space in San Francisco,...

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Josh considers Andy  In October 2008, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco opened an 18-month exhibition of Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered. The show, which debuted at The Jewish Museum, New York in spring 2008, was...

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The voice of loss The voice of Laurie Anderson is unmistakable: low, almost sultry with the resonance of electronic processing, it has its own cadences, rising and falling with a deadpan irony. And her alternate voice, lowered electronically into the range of a man’s voice is almost as familiar—with delays, distortions and heavy pauses, it navigates Anderson’s numerous stories of cultural absurdity. This past weekend Cal Performances brought both voices back to...

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