Gary Aylesworth’s dynamic spirit, mind and body burst onstage in “The Ballad of Edgar Cayce: A Bluegrass Operetta.”
In collaboration with Peter Newton and appearing under the name Construction Crew Theater, Aylesworth wrote, directed and composed much of the music in the 90-minute show, a highly theatrical, sometimes abstract telling of the real-life story of an early 20th-century American clairvoyant.
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The founder of the Gumball 3000 will be in town for the 10th annual car rally, which starts in San Francisco and ends in China. The opening is at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Fairmont Hotel. Participating cars will be on view at Sacramento and Taylor streets; the rally officially begins at 1 p.m.
Why are you starting in San Francisco this year? We were here in 2003, and Willie Brown put on a big party for us.
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The Tony Award winner co-wrote the score to the Broadway hit "The Drowsy Chaperone," playing at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre through Aug. 17.
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The Welsh-born, Tony Award-winning actor brings his one-man show, "What You Will," to the American Conservatory Theater. The show, a survey all about William Shakespeare, runs Friday through Aug. 9 at 415 Geary St., San Francisco.
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It looked like a lot of teens were in the audience on opening night of "A Chorus Line" in San Francisco, and that’s good news. Now a new generation can enjoy the spirit and power of the 33-year-old Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, which still holds a Broadway record for longevity.
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For Nikki Snelson, playing Cassie in the new tour of "A Chorus Line" is an achievement in more ways than one."It’s special ... my mom can really see how all those dance lessons paid off," says the Broadway thespian, recently on the phone from Los Angeles. Beginning this week, she’ll be in San Francisco, where the show runs through July 27 at the Curran Theatre in a Best of Broadway presentation.
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This month, the San Jose-based brewer and his partner, Dean Biersch, are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Gordon Biersch Brewing Co., famous for its German lager, garlic fries and upscale but casual restaurants.
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The season three "American Idol" contestant appears at The City’s Rrazz Room in concert today and next week with fellow alumni Anwar Robinson and Lakisha Jones.
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The San Francisco writer’s second novel set in The City, "No One You Know," is being released this week. She will appear in book readings at 7:30 p.m. July 9 at Kepler’s in Menlo Park and 7:30 p.m. July 15 at the Booksmith in San Francisco.
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"Oh My Godmother" — it’s a San Francisco treat!The timing, Gay Pride weekend, couldn’t have been more appropriate for the San Francisco premiere of a new musical based on the Cinderella tale; only this time, "Cinder" isn’t Ella, he’s Albert, and his fairy godmother is a fella who runs a clothes shop in what’s got to be the Castro.
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The performer best known as Broadway’s original "Annie" in 1977, now 44, brings her cabaret act to the Rrazz Room today through Saturday. She’ll also appear in "You’ve Got Possibilities," a fundraiser gala and tribute to "Annie" composer Charles Strouse on Monday at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco.
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The Berkeley resident's new novel is "Promise of the Wolves." She'll read from and sign copies today at 6 p.m. at Book Passage in San Francisco’s Ferry Building and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
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The sister of James Byrd Jr. — the man killed in Jasper, Texas, in 1998 by three white men who chained him to a truck and dragged him — will appear at 2 p.m.
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Good news for "Greater Tuna" fans: When the crazy characters of Tuna venture outside of their beloved third-smallest town in Texas for Las Vegas, they’re as just sassy, sweet and funny as they are at home.
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George Michael, in excellent voice and good spirit, thanked his San Francisco and San Jose fans for being patient with him."Lord knows, it's not always been easy being a George Michael fan," he told the capacity crowd at HP Pavilion in San Jose on Thursday night at his first Bay Area appearance in 17 years.He promised he'd do everything he could to make up for his long absence, and by the end of the 90-minute set, sending the crowd home with the anthem "Freedom 90" as the encore, by jove, he had.
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