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Datebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to arts & entertainment in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news with a curated events calendar.
‘Wicked: Part One’ director Jon M. Chu has been waiting 20 years …
2024年11月20日 · Director John M. Chu debuted two special projects this fall: one work of art, one human. The first was his fifth child, daughter Stevie Sky Chu, with wife Kristin Hodge, who gave birth on Nov. 9, the premiere date of Chu’s film version of the smash Broadway musical “Wicked.” A week later, Chu was still wearing his hospital ID bracelet in …
Four years before Grateful Dead’s birth, lyricist Robert Hunter was ...
2024年10月9日 · The concepts of “lost” and “found” take on a different meaning when glimpsed through the cosmic prism of the Grateful Dead. Recognized today as one of history’s seminal rock groups, the band and its timeless lyrics and epic live jams have birthed a fan base of Deadheads that’s remained utterly devoted to the group for 59 years and counting.
Review: S.F. Opera taps into the transcendent power of ... - Datebook
2024年10月20日 · Review: S.F. Opera taps into the transcendent power of ‘Tristan and Isolde’ Richard Wagner’s epic of love and death comes to glorious life in a dramatically sung production led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim.
Review: ‘The Wild Robot’ may be DreamWorks’ finest ... - Datebook
2024年9月25日 · As Roz learns feelings, her look evolves through dings, moss and carbon-based replacement parts into that of a more organic being. Still, this contraption remains a whiz-bang wonder of swirling, detachable appendages and vibrant lights that go into action with such lithe speed, Transformers look like clanking rust buckets by comparison. And it’s not just Roz; every frame is saturated in ...
Impressionist Mary Cassatt’s modernity takes center stage
2024年10月12日 · And about those famous images of maternity and children: They are the ones that really make my senses activate. The painting “Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child” (1880) showing a woman with a blond toddler on her lap, and the pastel “A Goodnight Hug,” seemingly depicting the same woman and child embracing (1880), practically vibrate with the graphic zigzag of the walls behind them.
A sweet celebration of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, still moving
2024年1月24日 · For a guy who’s never stopped moving, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott has put down a vast and world-shaping web of musical roots. A master of folk blues and various fingerstyle and flatpicking guitar idioms, he’s the direct link between American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, with whom he apprenticed and toured as a teenager in the early 1950s, and the legendary Bob Dylan, whose early sound ...
Bay Area actress Connie Nielsen back in ancient Rome in
2024年11月18日 · Every day, Connie Nielsen is reminded why she’s stayed in the Bay Area for more than two decades, and why she has no plans to leave. “I look out the window, there’s a view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the entire bay — Angel Island, downtown,” the star of the new blockbuster “Gladiator II” told the Chronicle. “Then I walk my dog up the top of the hill, and there I see the whole ...
Why Tamara de Lempicka is suddenly all the rage a century after …
2024年9月26日 · Rubio, the president of Women in Film San Francisco Bay Area and founder of East Meets West Productions (2014’s “East Side Sushi”), got some invaluable celebrity help of her own in making her de Lempicka film.Noted collector Barbra Streisand provided Rubio with high-resolution images of the artist’s work, and the legendary singer and filmmaker OK’d the sections featuring her ...
Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen keeps S.F. Symphony on course in
2024年10月5日 · With his signature flair for the theatrical, Shostakovich ups the ante in the concerto’s linked third and fourth movements. As Salonen and the Symphony laid the groundwork for the Passacaglia’s variations, Shoji offered a nostalgic glance, both melodically and temperamentally, back toward the Nocturne.