SF Bay Area
Film.Theater.Arts
Food.Wine
Gadgets.Tech
Loreto Baja
Theater and Arts Guide
Cinequest Film Festival
SSC Presents
The Artist Diaries
What's Happening

What's Happening: Film and Arts

What's Happening: Film and Arts
Grammy Award-winning ‘In The Heights’ comes to San Francisco
by Chris Wright | 03.12.10 | Comment
Grammy Award-winning ‘In The Heights’ comes to San Francisco

Get ready for a high octane musical, Broadway-style with a healthy dose of contemporary thrown in for good measure. SHN has announced that the Tony and Grammy Award-winning In The Heights musical is coming to San Francisco.

The acclaimed new ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
Center REPertory Company announces Noises Off, directed by Timothy Near
by Chris Wright | 03.04.10 | Comment
Center REPertory Company announces Noises Off, directed by Timothy Near

Center REPertory Company’s presents Michael Frayn’s hilarious comedy Noises Off, from April 1st through May 1st, 2010. Directed by Timothy Near, Noises Off is the seventh production of Center REP’s 43rd subscription season. Press night is Tuesday, April ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
Berkeley Rep announces 2010-2011 season featuring Compulsion, Ruined, Rita Moreno and even Steve Jobs
by Chris Wright | 03.04.10 | Comment
Berkeley Rep announces 2010-2011 season featuring Compulsion, Ruined, Rita Moreno and even Steve Jobs

Today, Berkeley Rep announced their 2010-11 season. The slate of eight new shows includes one written by Artistic Director Tony Taccone, two “audacious” monologues including one about Steve Jobs, and a new look at Lemony Snicket’s The Composer ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
Broadway San Jose announces 2010-2011 season, highlights include Grease, Stomp, The Color Purple, Mamma Mia!
by Chris Wright | 03.03.10 | Comment
Broadway San Jose announces 2010-2011 season, highlights include Grease, Stomp, The Color Purple, Mamma Mia!

Fans of Broadway, hang on to your hats. Broadway San Jose in association with Team San Jose announced today a doozy of a line-up of seven shows for its 2010-2011 season, which kicks off in September.

Highlights include the ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
San Francisco Symphony announce programs for 2010-11 season
by Chris Wright | 03.01.10 | Comments (1)
San Francisco Symphony announce programs for 2010-11 season

Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) today announced programs and details of the San Francisco Symphony’s (SFS) 2010-11 season. Engaging local and global audiences with its exciting and innovative brand of music-making, the Orchestra’s 99th season features ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
The Marvelous Wonderettes coming to the San Jose Rep this summer
by Chris Wright | 02.27.10 | Comment
The Marvelous Wonderettes coming to the San Jose Rep this summer

The San Jose Repertory Theatre announced that The Marvelous Wonderettes, a Record-Setting and Award-Winning, Cotton Candy-Colored Non-Stop Pop Musical, is opening June 15 at the Rep for a 13-day summer run. Memorable songs to be performed include “Mr. ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
Libby Black & Modesto Covarrubias Coming Soon to the ICA
by Clinton Stark | 02.26.10 | Comment
Libby Black & Modesto Covarrubias Coming Soon to the ICA

The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) will present two new installations opening in April 2010. Libby Black’s Work Out will make its California premiere in the ICA’s Cardinale Project Room on April 10 and run ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
Cutting Ball in New York for first public readings of ‘Diadem’ and ‘Bone to Pick’
by Chris Wright | 02.25.10 | Comment
Cutting Ball in New York for first public readings of ‘Diadem’ and ‘Bone to Pick’

On Saturday, February 27 at 1pm, Cutting Ball Theater will present a reading in New York City at New Dramatists, one of our country’s premier centers for the development of playwrights. Cutting Ball Associate Artist and frequent collaborator, ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
TheatreWorks announces 2010-2011 season, includes 3 world premieres
by Chris Wright | 02.21.10 | Comment
TheatreWorks announces 2010-2011 season, includes 3 world premieres

TheatreWorks’ founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Managing Director Phil Santora proudly unveiled a line-up of shows coming to the SF Bay Area for the 2010-2011 season, its 41st anniversary. 3 of the 8 shows are world premieres: ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
Theater News: James Carpenter in ‘John Gabriel Borkman’ at Aurora Theatre
by Chris Wright | 02.19.10 | Comments (1)
Theater News: James Carpenter in ‘John Gabriel Borkman’ at Aurora Theatre

Aurora Theatre Company announced that its 18th season continues with Henrik Ibsen’s rarely-produced masterwork John Gabriel Borkman, in a new version by David Eldridge.

Aurora Theatre Company founding Artistic Director Barbara Oliver, who directed the company’s hit production of ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
Ain’t Misbehavin’ to open at San Jose Repertory Theatre March 13
by Chris Wright | 02.18.10 | Comment
Ain’t Misbehavin’ to open at San Jose Repertory Theatre March 13

San Jose Repertory Theatre announced that the musical revue Ain’t Misbehavin’ will hit the stage March 13. The Tony award-winning musical features 30 songs by Thomas “Fats” Waller and will be directed by Kent Gash and is based ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
SJMA Premieres New Work by Tom Marioni
by Chris Wright | 02.17.10 | Comment
SJMA Premieres New Work by Tom Marioni

A new installation by acclaimed California conceptual artist Tom Marioni is now on view at the San Jose Museum of Art. Cocktail (Retire from Art and Take up Painting), is a group of 25 paintings Marioni made ...

What's Happening: Film and Arts
Theater News: Eden Espinosa returns to San Francisco in ‘Wicked’
by Chris Wright | 02.17.10 | Comment
Theater News: Eden Espinosa returns to San Francisco in ‘Wicked’

SHN SF announced that Eden Espinosa will return to San Francisco to star in the open-ended engagement of Wicked now playing at the Orpheum Theatre. She has previously performed the role to critical acclaim on Broadway, San ...