by Rob Bowden We’re well into another year of Marvel dominance at the cinemas. “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2” was a smash success, “Spider-Man: Homecoming” could well be the biggest movie of the year when it debuts in July, and “Thor: Ragnarok” will be no slouch either. In other words, another year, another set […]
by Charles Kruger It was the best of times and the worst of times last week, as we attended two revivals at the San Francisco Opera: “Rigoletto” and “Don Giovanni.” The experience was a lesson in what can go right and wrong with a revival. Ideally, a revival should capture the best aspects of the […]
by Charles Kruger Prolific local playwright and director Stuart Bousel admits to being a Greek geek. This does not refer to his college fraternity, but to Greek mythology, gods, goddesses, titans, and all that jazz. With “Twins,” he takes on the story of Apollo and Artemis—God of the Sun, Goddess of the Moon, children of […]
by Sean Taylor If you study the movement of time, you make clocks, and may be called a Horologist. There is a pleasure to this perfection that clock makers know, measuring seconds as if they invented them. Lin Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” is a clock made of people and stories and songs and measures with counter […]
by Charles Kruger Do you know about the San Francisco International Arts Festival that is taking place RIGHT NOW? (May 25th through June 4th). It is not too late to take in the last weekend. The Festival was founded in 2003, so this is their fourteenth year, under the direction of organizer Andrew Wood. Over […]
by Charles Kruger For a century, American theatre students have dreamed of theatre in Moscow, thanks to the astonishing influence of the great Konstantin Stanislavski (the inventor of so-called “method” acting) and his colleagues, including Vsevolod Meyerhold. When the theatre began producing the naturalistic works of the great Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, it quickly achieved […]
by Charles Kruger When President Obama coined the phrase, “a pivot to Asia” in reference to a change in focus in American foreign policy, many Asians were perhaps discomfited, remembering previous American misadventures in that part of the world. The organizers of the San Francisco International Arts Festival remembered that phrase when they began to […]
