EKAphotography​Outside Lands Day 2: Street Sweeper Social Club, Trombone Shorty, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta, & more, Saturday, August 20, 2009.Better Than: sitting in the park, waiting for you.The first day of Outside Lands was a huge freakin' success, especially if you stayed at the Twin ... More >>
Vagabond OperaSunday, June 21, 2009AmnesiaLast night was the closest I'd ever been to both a theremin and a musical saw. The musical saw was played by a beautiful young blonde woman, attired in black and red lace ruffles. She was performing with a multicultural modern vaudeville act called Vagabond ... More >>
By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>
A classic tale is wrested from the ravenous jaws of dull academics.
Annie Clark is an indie star two decades in the making
One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch
The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival offers tasty treats from the underground
Gangster movie meets musical theater in the back room at Original Joe's
Two thieves, six actors, and one enduring Mission District legend
Menagerie
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Our critics weigh in on local theater
An odd choice for one of the country's most prominent musical theater artists
Here Lies Jenny Weills away the hours
Serial sagas meet high camp
Capitalism and its discontents in an old-fashioned Shotgun Players production
Audiences adore it, but is Urinetown as fresh as the hype suggests?
The S.F. Symphony's summer festival of German music sends us in search of sausage, schnitzel, and sauerbraten
A "Dark Kabaret," Buy Nothing Day, synth love, and the ever-fierce Marianne Faithfull
Postmodern genre-busters Japonize Elephants stir up a theatrical gumbo
World/Inferno Friendship Society's sinister Gypsy punk, and the Rubber City Rebels' gritty Midwestern rock
Too many songs and not enough talk. But, boy, can they sing.
Sprocket Ensemble's Valentine's Celebration; Mark Growden's Electric Piñata
Amy X Neuburg & Men; Emeryville Taiko
Not Politics as Usual: The Jewish Film Festival
eX-Girl; Blues Fuse; Grrlyshow
The Make-Up, Ute Lemper, Erotica USA
Amy X Neuburg & Men commandeer the technology of the future to leap headlong into ... the past
Blur's class act
