Arts & Entertainment Stylish de Young exhibition showcases decades of SF fashion By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | January 18, 2024 Exhibition includes the opportunity to try on haute couture -- via augmented reality tech.
Arts & Entertainment A Jewish comic brilliantly works the crowd in ‘Just For Us’ By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | January 11, 2024 Alex Edelman’s funny, suspenseful, solo show is now playing at Berkeley Rep.
Arts & Entertainment Hilarious holiday drag with ‘The Golden Girls Live!’ By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | December 4, 2023 Quartet's perfect comic timing and lively interaction with the audience make this show a holiday hit.
Arts & Entertainment Review: SF Playhouse puts on magical ‘Guys and Dolls’ By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | November 24, 2023 This small scale production is a terrific way to experience a hit Broadway musical.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Billy Crudup dazzles in ‘Harry Clarke’ at Berkeley Rep By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | November 21, 2023 Anyone who's been watching him in 'The Morning Show' will not be surprised.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical’ dazzles on opening night By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | September 8, 2023 The American Conservatory Theater production in San Francisco is bound for Broadway.
Arts & Entertainment An unusually robust August for new shows on Bay Area stages By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | July 26, 2023 Summer Shakespeare fare plus a theater festival and two world premieres.
Arts & Entertainment Tony-winner Ari’el Stachel back in Berkeley for ‘Out of Character’ By Jean Schiffman, Bay City News Foundation | June 19, 2023 East Bay native mines his complicated history to play 40+ characters in his new show at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Arts & Entertainment Science and empathy unite in Josh Kornbluth’s new solo show ‘Citizen Brain’ By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | June 12, 2023 Both personal and political, Kornbluth's show touches on a range of interconnected themes, from empathy to aging to injustice.
Arts & Entertainment Review: SF Playhouse’s ‘Chinglish’ a funny, insightful take on human, international relations By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | May 23, 2023 This witty comedy of cultural and linguistic misunderstanding continues through June 10 at San Francisco Playhouse.