tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-104274762024-03-13T12:49:33.375-07:00Bay Area ArtsWelcome to Bay Area Arts!
This blog by features writer, photographer and columnist Stephanie Wright Hession covers arts, travel, fashion and lifestyle in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond!
bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-60782791769406217962018-10-06T16:58:00.002-07:002018-10-06T17:01:36.659-07:00Lauren Gunderson's "The Revoluntionists" at the Town Hall Theatre through October 20The Town Hall Theatre Company's empowering and deeply moving production of Lauren Gunderson's magnificent, comedic play, "The Revoluntionists," plays through October 20. Directed by Susan E. Evans.
-Stephanie Wright Hession
(L-R background) Heather Kellogg (Charlotte Corday), Kimberly Ridgeway (Marianne Angelle), Suzie Shepard (Marie-Antoinette) and (foreground) bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-26846413101148372702018-09-28T19:46:00.002-07:002018-09-28T19:48:35.372-07:00Christopher Chen’s “You Mean To Do Me Harm,” at San Francisco Playhouse through November 3
Christopher Chen’s provocative, jarring and compelling
play, “You Mean To Do Me Harm,” centers upon a dinner party attended by two interracial couples. Despite all being witty, sophisticated urbanites, their casual conversation takes a disturbing turn and escalates into
the real and the surreal, the actual and the imagined.
Directed by Bill English, the San Francisco Playhouse
production bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-21960519044720397642018-07-13T22:41:00.001-07:002018-07-13T22:44:59.881-07:00Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George,” at San Francisco Playhouse through September 8
The cast helps recreate Georges Seurat's painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
La Grande Jatte," (1884) on stage at the San Francisco Playhouse. Photos:
Ken Levin
Stephen Sondheim's endearing musical, "Sunday in the Park with George," follows the days leading up to the completion of one of French painter Georges Seurat's greatest works, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-33117572980950459692017-10-13T19:20:00.005-07:002017-10-13T19:20:58.777-07:00"The Song of the Nightingale: A Musical Fairy Tale," at Town Hall Theatre, Lafayette through October 21Playwright Min Kahng's,"The Song of the Nightingale: A Musical Fairy Tale" at the Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette. Based upon a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, it's powerful, beautiful and deeply poignant.
Foreground from left: Lisa Woo as Madame Wu,
Pauli Amornkul as the Nightingale and Ted V. Bigornia as Bing Wen joined by the ensemble cast in "The Song of the Nightingale: A Musicalbayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-60353411309767700782017-08-31T17:44:00.000-07:002018-09-28T18:10:55.026-07:00Enchanting weekend getaway to Sonoma County
Story and photographs by Stephanie Wright Hession
Turning off Highway 12 at the
Quarryhill property in Glen Ellen, we rambled down a paved road flanked by
vineyards, where a rafter of wild turkeys appeared and goldfinches chattered in the fields.
Just up ahead, we spied the guest
cottage perched on a knoll. Next to its rustic front steps, gentle trickling sounds emitted from a small pond bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-78525699844144888472017-08-26T20:05:00.000-07:002017-08-26T20:05:02.871-07:00Works by women artists who helped build the Abstract Expressionist movement on display at Foster-Gwin, San Francisco
Works by women artists who helped build the Abstract Expressionist artists including Jay DeFeo, Emiko Nakano and Nell Sinton are currently on display at Foster-Gwin art & antiques in San Francisco.
-Stephanie Wright Hession
“February Painting,” (1960), oil on paper, by Emiko Nakano. Courtesy of Foster-Gwin.
“Summer Landscape, Dusk,” (1982), oil on paper, by Jay DeFeo. bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-16716092339896689182017-08-02T19:40:00.001-07:002017-08-02T19:40:32.030-07:00Transcendence Theatre Company's "Broadway Under the Stars" concert series at Jack London State Historic Park, August 4-20 and September 8-10, 2017
Enjoy a picnic and an
evening of al fresco theatre during "Broadway Under the
Stars,” a series of concerts
intermingling Broadway numbers and dance. Produced by
the Transcendence Theatre Company, it all takes place in an idyllic,
summer setting, amidst the remnants of the 150-year old Kohler and Frohling Winery at Jack
London State bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-64366231931617917582017-06-17T16:02:00.006-07:002017-06-17T16:02:48.831-07:00Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband” at the Town Hall Theatre, Lafayette through June 24Intrigue and humor abound in this clever comedy.
Although written by Wilde in 1893, its themes of politics, infidelity and the corruption often intertwined with wealth and power remain relevant today.
Set in 19th century London, the story surrounds politician Robert
Chiltern and what transpires after an unknown woman comes forward with a letter
about a transgression from the past. It also takesbayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-90879110506942026042017-05-26T11:44:00.001-07:002017-05-26T11:44:48.820-07:00Berkeley Repertory Theatre extends “Monsoon Wedding” through July 9
Due to its popularity, “Monsoon Wedding” has been extended at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre through Sunday, July 9 with seven additional performances.
A musical based upon director Mira Nair's 2001 film of the same name, "Monsoon Wedding," centers
upon the tempest that starts when family members arrive in Delhi to enjoy four days
of festivities surrounding an bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-9588146752643860512017-05-26T10:42:00.002-07:002017-05-26T10:42:31.479-07:00"The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion and Rock & Roll," at the de Young museum, S.F. through August 20
The mid-1960s brought free-spirited musicians, activists, artists and writers in search of enlightenment to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. By the summer of 1967, it attracted an estimated 100,000 young women and men, who also fanned out into nearby Golden Gate park.
"The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion and Rock & Roll" at the de Young museum celebrates this era bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-731718233690157272017-03-31T13:14:00.002-07:002017-03-31T13:16:03.203-07:00“Phantom Space,” a new series of works by Chris Dorosz at the Scott Richards Contemporary Art gallery, S.F., April 6-29
“My Space in Upper Canada,” digital print on archival Epson
paper by Chris Dorosz
“Stasis 111,” (2016), acrylic paint on plastic rods by Chris
Dorosz
“Sleepwalker.web,” by Chris Dorosz
Images courtesy of Scott Richards Contemporary Art.
Through April 29. Cocktail reception for the artist, 5-7
p.m., Thursday, April 6. “Phantom Space,” Scott Richards Contemporary Art
bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-43374877734166483832017-03-31T11:35:00.000-07:002017-03-31T11:53:26.298-07:00World premiere of David Gordon and Pick Up Performance Co (s) “Live Archiveography” at the ODC Theater, S.F., April 20-22
The ODC Theater presents choreographer and director David Gordon and Pick Up
Performance Co(s) in “Live Archiveography.” Gordon, a founding
member of the Judson Dance Theater, spent the last several years organizing and
interpreting his archives. Named “Archiveography," the collection will be housed in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library.
Scott Cunningham and bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-43761103764696657242017-03-21T11:23:00.000-07:002017-03-21T11:25:05.225-07:00“Dialogues in Drawing" group exhibition features contemporary women artists at the Jenkins Johnson Gallery, S.F. through May 13
In honor of Women’s History Month, this mixed-media, group
exhibition features works by contemporary women artists Damali Abrams, Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, Amy Cutler, Donna
Dennis, Torkwase Dyson, Anna Sigmond Gudmundsdottir, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle,
Rosemary Mayer, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Ebony G. Patterson, Adrian Piper, Tracey
Rose, Alison Saar, Simone Shubuck, Shinique Smith, Sam Vernon and Saya bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-80715493371683275362017-03-20T21:30:00.000-07:002017-03-20T21:30:13.460-07:00Local artist Jane Kim creates “Flora from Fauna” murals in downtown Redwood City
Visual artist and science illustrator Jane Kim is currently in
the midst of working on “Flora from Fauna,” six interactive murals where bald
eagles, squirrels, deer, a great blue heron, a fox and even a domestic dog
dwell.
A detail from “Flora from Fauna,” a series of six murals being created by artist Jane Kim.
Utilizing acrylic paint and latex exterior house paint as her media, bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-20474007384292936772017-03-20T20:49:00.003-07:002017-03-20T20:49:28.088-07:00“Urinetown, the Musical,” opens April 8 at the Berkeley Playhouse
A clever, irreverent and humorous commentary on corporate
greed as well as an ode to Broadway musicals, “Urinetown, the Musical,” takes place in
an urban town in the near future. There, water is scarce and the Urine Good Company and
its president Caldwell B. Cladwell regulate all of the restrooms through a corrupt, corporate system.
Pennywise (Jessica Coker) (center) confronts (L-R): bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-63913853259635660722017-03-20T16:40:00.004-07:002017-04-03T16:59:54.643-07:00Paula Vogel’s “The Baltimore Waltz” at the Magic Theatre, S.F. through April 16
With “The Baltimore Waltz,” playwright Paula Vogel takes the
audience on an imaginary, satirical journey with schoolteacher Anna and her brother Carl
as they escape to Europe. Spurred by Anna’s diagnosis of the fictitious and
fatal acquired toilet disease, (ATD), the pair set out in search of a cure and
on a sexually adventurous romp through Paris, Amsterdam, Munich and Vienna.
In
bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-35488394166139491672017-03-10T19:15:00.000-08:002017-03-20T20:49:41.264-07:00Jacob Hashimoto’s “My Own Lost Romance” opening March 11 at the Anglim Gilbert Gallery, S.F.
For his sculptures, created with a melange of petite, paper discs
rendered with graphics and bright hues Jacob Hashimoto employs ancient,
Japanese construction techniques, Western sculpture and painting traditions and
the digital era’s modular language.
An opening reception from 4-7 p.m., Saturday March 11 celebrates
“My Own Lost Romance,” his solo exhibition at the bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-63978990549367803532017-03-06T19:11:00.000-08:002017-03-06T19:11:03.322-08:00Robert Minervini’s “Improvised Gardens” opening March 18 at the Rena Bransten Gallery, S.F.
For this solo exhibition, Robert Minervini
continues his study into the complex relationship people have with both
natural and constructed environments.
Drawn from walks the artist took
throughout San Francisco, the emphasis for much of this body of work is on small, improvised garden spaces. Through these new pieces, he explores how space is controlled in the midst
of densely populatedbayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-82824976720371891142017-03-06T18:42:00.000-08:002017-03-06T18:42:56.967-08:00Town Hall Theatre Company presents “Smokey Joe's Café” through March 25
With music and lyrics by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, “Smokey Joe’s Café” features songs including “On Broadway,” “Poison Ivy” and “Stand
By Me.” The Town Hall Theatre Company production is directed by Lauren Rosi.
(L-R): Glen
Riggs, Elizabeth Curtis, and Branden Thomas in “Smokey Joe’s Café” at Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette.
(L-R): Cadarious bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-38205132518521589822017-02-27T23:27:00.002-08:002017-02-27T23:28:37.342-08:00"The Christians" at San Francisco Playhouse through March 11
Pastor Paul (Anthony Fusco) with his congregation.
While Pastor Paul’s church has grown into a
megachurch during the last decade, he's also experiencing a personal crisis
of faith. This prompts him to share a shocking revelation during a sermon, which challenges the core beliefs held by the congregation.
Making its Bay Area premiere at
the San Francisco Playhouse, with Anthony bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-57753218846633252982017-02-25T18:51:00.000-08:002017-03-06T17:15:51.816-08:00“Monet: The Early Years,” opens today at the Legion of Honor, S.F.
The first major exhibition in the United States focused upon
the beginning of Claude Monet’s career, “Monet: The Early Years,” features approximately
60 portraits, still lifes and landscapes from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and other public and private collections.
Created by Monet bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-13898576752579167102017-02-25T16:28:00.000-08:002017-02-25T16:31:33.494-08:00"Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, S.F. through June 25
The first solo museum exhibition and career survey of his work,“Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show,” features almost 350 scribbled, painted
text-based pieces created throughout the last three decades.
With this retrospective,
Leibowitz, also known as Candyass, examines identity, queer
politics and more from the viewpoint of a gay, Jewish person.
“Attention All Art Critics,” (1990)bayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-24109988933400418442016-12-16T18:02:00.000-08:002016-12-16T18:02:42.355-08:00Travel: Trip to Manhattan, New York
View from the Staten Island ferry
During a whirlwind, four-day trip to Manhattan, I enjoyed some of the sights, fashions, a Broadway show and views of everyday life there.
Photographs by Stephanie Wright Hession
Hello Manhattan!
On my way to the iconic Empire State Building
Gorgeous view from the Empire State Building
Couture gowns from the 1940s designed by Christian Diorbayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-61681189735242222882016-12-16T17:19:00.001-08:002016-12-16T17:19:45.992-08:00“Cut Up/Cut Out” exhibition opens at the Bedford Gallery December 18
"Untitled" by Karen Margolis
For the exhibition “Cut Up/Cut Out” at the Bedford Gallery, more than 50 local, national and international artists employed road maps, laser paper, metal, plastic, rubber and other media
to explore various methods of cutting and piercing.
December 18, 2016-March 5, 2017. Opening reception for the artists, 3-5 p.m., Sunday,
December 18. (The gallery willbayareaarts.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585105142221754278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10427476.post-26189498602860159572016-12-06T22:28:00.000-08:002016-12-06T22:28:28.158-08:0042nd Street Moon presents "Scrooge in Love," December 7-24With its holiday presentation, "Scrooge in Love!," starring Jason Graae, 42nd Street Moon ponders what happens after "A Christmas Carol."
Taking place one year later, it follows Scrooge's quest to find Belle, his lost love. Jacob Marley and new spirits help him along the way.
Marines' Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter St., S.F. Tickets: (415) 255-8207, http://bit.ly/2giUaJq
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