Alonzo King LINES Ballet opened its spring season on May 10 with a powerful double bill. The evening featured the world premiere of The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits, a mesmerizing new work created in collaboration with Oakland-born jazz virtuoso Ambrose Akinmusire. It was paired with a revival of King’s 2009

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s triple bill of “Home,” “Minus 16,” and “Revelations” was a vibrant, energetic performance that celebrated blackness and the black experience, despite the political climate and the loss of the company’s early grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

On the massive front curtain above the stage, drapped a painting of an anatomical human skull. Then animations from an invisible hand began scribbling arcane medical annotations. Inside the skull a ghostly, ephemeral, storm cloud swirls, and congeals in the shape of a human brain…and as the orchestra began its

U.K. Subs were denied entry into the United States due to immigration issues, forcing them to assemble a last-minute pickup band to fulfill their contractual obligation at the L.A. Punk Invasion festival.

Nobody Loves You, a new musical at A.C.T.’s Toni Rembe Theater, satirizes reality TV dating shows and explores the fallacy of the system of perceived reality.

The San Francisco Philharmonic will feature Pictures at an Exhibition and Dvorak Cello Concerto with Amos Yang in a performance at The Herbst Theatre on March 1st.

Post:ballet’s immersive dance piece, Magma, was the last production of the company, which dissolved due to unsustainable levels of hustle from the leadership and lack of donor support.