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Roster set for S.F. International Arts Festival

Japanese butoh master Ko Murobushi, Russia's experimental Derevo company and France's groundbreaking A.K.Y.S. Project are among the headliners in the 28 arts ensembles that will take part in the seventh annual , beginning May 19. The 2010 lineup also ...

From ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ko Murobushi

CD: 'Gutenberg! The Musical!'

Why is everyone in town illiterate? Because they don't have anything to read, grape stomper Helvetica explains to wine presser Gutenberg. Scott Brown and Anthony King's entry in the really-bad-idea-for-a-musical craze isn't the most outrageous ever, ...

From ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Scott Brown,  Andrew Lloyd Webber

'Peter Pan' to do a 360 in an S.F. video tent

Peter Pan will fly into San Francisco in April in a very big way. He's bringing not only Wendy, Tinker Bell and Captain Hook with him but also millions of pixels, 400 square miles of virtual London and the world's largest stage enclosed in 360 degrees ...

From ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gavin Newsom

Theater review: 'Walworth Farce'

The family that puts on plays together stays together in the latest import from Galway's impressive Druid Ireland to grace a Cal Performances season. That this particular family stays together under extreme duress is part of what makes Enda Walsh's ...

From ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martin McDonagh,  Conor McPherson

Theater review: 'Boom' a cataclysmic sex farce

"Please make this night worth surviving," the frustrated young woman says in the midst of what she had hoped would be a hot date. She doesn't realize that not just her Saturday night but also the survival of the human race is at stake in the sex farce ...

From ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009

Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene

Elton John and Billy Joel have postponed a concert scheduled for tonight at HP Pavilion at San Jose. It is the second local date on their beleaguered Face 2 Face tour that the pop superstars have been forced to pull out of, this time due to an ...

From AIDIN VAZIRI, ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Elton John,  Billy Joel

2 funny, offbeat fragments by playwright Bivins

Crises of faith yield outlandish laughs in two plays by William Bivins now onstage. In "Pulp Scripture" at the Off-Market Theaters most of the yuks come pretty directly from the book of Genesis. In "The Afterlife of the Mind," a Virago Theatre ...

From ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pulp (musician)

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb hopes for a happy ending

The coincidence may be doubly sweet, given that "Boom" will be Nachtrieb's first play produced in the town where he grew up when it opens Tuesday. But Mill Valley is far from the only place staging Nachtrieb's comedy about a comet that might wipe out ...

From ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Brown University,  Monty Python

Holiday at the theater

Quick links to the best of SFGate | Still can't find it? see Site Index Aurélia's Oratorio: Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter, Aurélia Thierrée, stars in a concoction of stage illusions created by her mother, Victoria Thierrée Chaplin. Previews begin Dec. ...

From ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Charlie Chaplin,  Lorraine Hansberry,  Cirque du Soleil,  AT&T Inc.,  Ford Motor Company

On the town with Dan Hoyle

But the younger Hoyle has carved out a path completely his own, pioneering a form of solo performance with his director and collaborator Charlie Varon at the Marsh. Hoyle introduced his "journalistic theater" in 2004 with "Circumnavigator," vividly ...

From ROBERT HURWITT, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Valencia CF,  US State Department,  AT&T Inc.

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