Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide
Festivals. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024: Fans embrace community on S.F. festival’s opening day. By Zara Irshad. Datebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to arts & entertainment in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news with a curated events calendar.
Review: S.F. Symphony gives exciting piano concerto an
Oct 13, 2023 · The new piano concerto by the Swedish composer Anders Hillborg is vivacious, funny, heroic, eloquent, plain-spoken, thoughtful and wholly irresistible.. It serves, in other words, as a musical portrait of pianist Emanuel Ax, who joined the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen in Davies Symphony Hall Thursday, Oct. 12, to give the piece its triumphant world premiere.
Review: Tiny Tim documentary lifts curtain on misunderstood singer
Apr 21, 2021 · M“Tiny Tim: King for a Day”: Documentary. Directed by Johan von Sydow. (Not rated. 78 minutes.) Showing Friday-Sunday, April 23-25, and April 30-May 2, at the Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., in San Rafael. The film will also be available to stream via TinyTimfilm.com on May 21, and video on demand Aug. 6.
‘Nash Bridges’ is back on the streets of S.F., and star ... - Datebook
Nov 20, 2021 · Yes, “Nash Bridges” is back, two decades after a six-season run on CBS, in a new made-for-TV movie that premieres Saturday, Nov. 27, on USA Network. And no one is happier about that than Johnson, who has a rich history with the city. “I think Willie’s naturally high,” Johnson said, roaring with laughter during a video interview with The Chronicle from his office in Montecito (Santa ...
Robert Graysmith wrote the definitive Zodiac Killer book. He …
Sep 20, 2021 · Robert Graysmith, a former Chronicle illustrator, in 2012. Photo: Russell Yip / The Chronicle. For a fairly famous guy, author Robert Graysmith doesn’t get out much.
Cary Grant’s daughter to bring ‘Archie’ to San Francisco
Jan 11, 2024 · Jennifer Grant is the daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. Photo: Andrzej Lawnik. Jennifer Grant and her mother, actress Dyan Cannon, are the executive producers of “Archie,” a new four-part miniseries about Cary Grant’s life, including his brief, rocky marriage to Cannon, now streaming on BritBox. The show was adapted from Cannon’s ...
Here’s a list of the Bay Area venues, attractions and ... - Datebook
Oct 27, 2020 · This list will be updated as the Bay Area continues its phased approach to reopening arts and entertainment venues during the ongoing pandemic.
Review: ‘The Wild Robot’ may be DreamWorks’ finest animated …
Sep 25, 2024 · Of all the great things “ The Wild Robot ” accomplishes, the animated feature’s sense of balance may be its most exquisite. That seems like a no-brainer for this adaptation of Peter Brown’s bestselling children’s book about technology bungling into nature. But it’s difficult to mix component parts such as naturalism and the ...
Review: In ‘Fragile Things,’ a web of lies unravels amid ... - Datebook
Feb 16, 2021 · Set amid the wreckage of San Francisco, as well as a fictional mining town near San Mateo called “San Rafaela” and Tucson, the novel explores the ways that private suffering can intersect with collective grief in the wake of a natural disaster, an emotional territory that feels eerily familiar at a time when a pandemic has killed more than 2 million people worldwide.
When Plácido Domingo came to San Francisco Opera’s rescue in …
Oct 10, 2018 · Plácido Domingo makes his way to the stage of the War Memorial Opera House after flying across the U.S. to stand in for an ailing colleague in the 1983 opening-night performance of Verdi’s “Otello” Photo: Robert Messick. Domingo, going strong at 77, recalled that wild night. “I was rehearsing ‘Lohengrin’ when the call came.