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Nov 27, 2024 · Editor's note: This story has been updated with concerts for the 2024 season. Every year around December, the same set of cultural rituals gets repeated, depending on …

Oct 20, 2024 · 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 …

Nov 18, 2024 · 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 …

Jan 19, 2024 · Stasevska, the Ukrainian-born conductor who leads the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in Finland, wasn’t originally supposed to be here at all. The program, which also featured the …

Dec 19, 2024 · ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ If more plays were this visionary, well-resourced and relevant, theater would be in a much better place in this country. Ben Power’s adaptation of …

Oct 18, 2024 · The Southern Reach Trilogy was a huge success for VanderMeer. But it also, and purposefully so, left many questions unanswered. That is where “Absolution” comes in: It acts …

Oct 9, 2024 · 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 …

Nov 19, 2024 · Fleetwood Mac is getting a documentary with new exclusive interviews, unseen archival footage and tributes to keyboardist Christine McVie, who died in 2022.. The untitled …

Dec 27, 2024 · When Willem Dafoe enjoys working with a filmmaker, he’ll often jump at the chance to do it again. The list of directors with whom the 69-year-old has worked with more …