What were all those people doing Saturday morning, standing in line at the box office of an Emeryville multiplex? They were plunking down $18 a head to watch the world-premiere production of Tan Dun’s opera, "The First Emperor," in a high-definition simulcast from New York, with Placido Domingo in the title role.
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Have you ever seen the movie in which George Segal plays a woman in her 12th hour of labor? Better yet, would you want to? Unfortunately, we can’t offer you a screening because such a film has not yet been made (thank goodness).But, "In Character: Actors Acting," a witty little photography exhibit with portraits of famous actors, can certainly give you a taste of what that would look like.
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Just in case you were in denial about the demise of Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz’s four-year relationship, the couple has confirmed what Scoop! divulged on Jan. 3: It’s over.
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Although the dance season has not officially begun yet, you can get an early taste of what’s coming up on Wednesday night, when 10 Bay Area dance artists and companies descend on San Francisco State to perform at "Destination: Dance SF."
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At his next San Francisco concert Tuesday, Lang Lang will perform in the 2,750-seat Davies Hall, rather than in his usual venue, the 900-seat Herbst Theater — clearly indicating his ever-rising popularity. It was in Herbst where I first heard Lang Lang, at his second San Francisco Performances appearance, but the memory is still alive, five years later, in minute detail.
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The second season of the BBC’s No. 1 show makes its way to DVD and a prequel no one needed are among this week’s upcoming DVD releases. DOCTOR WHO: THE COMPLETE SECOND SERIES At the end of the first season of the rebirth of the BBC’s "Doctor Who," Christopher Eccleston exited the show and The Doctor regenerated into David Tennant, who might be familiar to Harry Potter fans; he had a small part in "The Prisoner of Azkaban." How would the show be with such a major change after one season? Pretty darned good.
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Panache. They invented it. Elegance. They exude it. Savoir-faire. They embody it. Meet a glamorous couple with élan, éclat and brio, leaders in fashion and taste, pacesetters among the beau mondes.Isha and Asim Abdullah, photogenic, kinetic, talented, give grandeur an au courant flair.
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One-of-a-kind cartoonist Keith Knight’s work has been described "as a combination of Aaron MacGruder’s ‘The Boondocks’ and Gary Larson’s ‘The Far Side.’" Well, at least that’s what his Web site says. But it’s not an unfounded observation.
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W. Somerset Maugham’s "The Circle," now at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, takes place in England, in 1920. The circle (to be explained below) began 30 years ago, which means more than a decade before the death of Queen Victoria, and therefore way ahead of the official — and certainly the de facto — end of the Victorian Era. Surely the England of 1890 was very different from the flapper era of the early 1920s, and yet, there is no indication of that in the story, the situations and the characters of "The Circle"; then and now seem pretty muchthe same.
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Prokofiev’s "Romeo & Juliet," performed at The Crucible in Oakland, was supposed to be the first ever fire ballet. Instead, on its opening night the much anticipated show completely redefined the concept of "technical difficulties" and nearly turned into a water ballet when a sprinkler system broke during the first act, pouring liters of water all over the Capulet ball dancers.Given the glowing torches, aerial dancers and house beats mixed with Prokofiev’s score that appeared in the beginning of the ballet, the sprinkler incident did not seem that surprising. At first.
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