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Ira Gershwin

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    June 15, 2009

    Last Night: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at War Memorial Opera House

    Cory WeaverEric Owens (Porgy) and Laquita Mitchell (Bess)Better than: Being trampled -- in your own seat -- by half the people in your section as they make for the Irish coffee at intermission. More on that later.On the BART ride home after San Francisco Opera's Sunday evening performance of George ... More >>

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    November 12, 2008

    Common Ground

    In The Quality of Life, liberals and conservatives can both have their hearts broken.

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    November 12, 2008

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Film

    December 14, 2005

    Repertory Film Listings

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Calendar

    May 4, 2005

    Bebe, Baby!

    Here Lies Jenny Weills away the hours

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    June 23, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Here Lies Jenny Weills away the hours

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    February 25, 2004

    Soap Scum

    Serial sagas meet high camp

  • Film

    May 5, 1999

    Second Time Around

    Serial sagas meet high camp

  • Music

    January 6, 1999

    Rhapsody in Green

    At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

  • Music

    December 24, 1997

    Baby, It's Him

    How can Burt Bacharach make a comeback when he never went away?

  • News

    April 2, 1997

    Bankers Book Bucks

    At Northern Trust's version of cafe society, participants trawl for business while trading literary metaphors

  • Calendar

    November 27, 1996

    Night+Day

    At Northern Trust's version of cafe society, participants trawl for business while trading literary metaphors

  • Culture

    December 13, 1995

    Be a Clown -- If You Must

    New Pickle Circus hams it up in Jump Cuts! Take Two; Weslia Whitfield sings a mesmerizing evening

  • Culture

    May 31, 1995

    Catfish Row Revival

    Houston's production of Porgy and Bess gives Gershwin's opera the grand treatment

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