Just as most movie remakes fail to instill any sort of satisfaction in the hearts of true film enthusiasts, Patrick Wolf’s Sundark and Riverlight falls short as a 10th anniversary LP with a new twist on the artist’s classics. The album itself is a two-disc collection that reinvents certain songs Read More…
The play opens in a hospital waiting room. The setting is 1981 New York City. A strange new disease has begun to spread within the city’s gay community. Forty-one cases have been reported. One by one, young and healthy men are dying, but no one knows the cause. The symptoms Read More…
While the idea of reinventing a classic Broadway musical may seem slightly questionable at first thought, the SF Playhouse takes this concept to new bounds, delivering an exceptional production of “My Fair Lady” that will transcend any doubts one may have. Taking the story of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” and Read More…
After many years of playing lead guitar and crafting lyrics for the Glasgow-based indie group Belle & Sebastian, Stevie Jackson delivers a long overdue solo album in a package that is charming, catchy and wistful to say the least. With melodies evoking the same ‘60s and ‘70s tone present in Read More…
Tears were shed Friday night at the world premiere of Eve Ensler’s “Emotional Creature” at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Ensler — Tony Award-winning playwright of the renown “The Vagina Monologues” — brings forth a new play based on her New York Times best-selling novel of the same name under the Read More…
From flying body parts and attempted gasoline explosions to internal monologues regarding a young man’s strange affinity for gibbons and high school massacres, along with everything in between — “A Behanding in Spokane” is a sardonic farce sure to both enthrall and disgust. SF Playhouse’s regional premiere of “A Behanding Read More…
