Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Lines Ballet, Axis Dance Co., Mark Morris’ ‘Pepperland,’ Symphony San Jose’s ‘Planets’ By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | May 7, 2025 It’s a rich weekend for dance in the Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment Free concerts will return to downtown San Francisco in June for second year By Thomas Hughes | Bay City News | May 7, 2025 Dirtybird will kick off the 2025 series with a new rendition of its “Back 2 Baysics” set at Embarcadero Plaza on June 14.
Arts & Entertainment Jazz trumpet star Ambrose Akinmusire creates premiere for Alonzo King Lines Ballet By James Ambroff-Tahan | Bay City News | May 6, 2025 Akinmusire scored the TV show “Blindspotting." Performances run from May 10-18 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Aurora Theatre’s ‘Crumbs from the Table of Joy’ a beautifully drawn portrait of a family in the 1950s By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | May 5, 2025 “Crumbs from the Table of Joy” runs through May 25 at Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley.
Around Town Alfred Hitchcock thriller comes to Piedmont By Robert Hall | Flix Fest | May 2, 2025 Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly star in the May 8 Flix Fest feature 'Rear Window.'
Arts & Entertainment Young People’s Symphony Orchestra (YPSO) to hold Spring Concert on May 17 By Young People’s Symphony Orchestra | May 2, 2025 Featuring two winners of the annual Concerto Competition, violinist Carolyn Ren and cellist Donghu Kim.
Arts & Entertainment Bestselling East Bay author Allison Larkin explores complex families in ‘Home of the American Circus’ By Linda Lenhoff | Bay City News | May 1, 2025 Allison Larkin appears with authors Renee Swindle and Regina Marler at a conversation presented by Towne Center Books at 11:30 am May 6.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Dreamers and I’ details inspiring journeys of scrappy Silicon Valley tech innovators By Anita Katz | Bay City News | May 1, 2025 Bay Area director Kenji Yamamoto and Nancy Kelly screen “The Dreamers and I” at 3:15 pm May 3 at the Smith Rafael Film Center.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Ruth Asawa retrospective, Marin Irish festival, ‘Jersey Boys,’ Manuel Barrueco, Bach’s Mass in B-Minor By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 30, 2025 Don't miss the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s ongoing Free First Thursdays program.
Arts & Entertainment Truly unique performances comprise 2025 SF International Arts Festival By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | April 30, 2025 The San Francisco International Arts Festival runs April 30 through May 11 at numerous locations in the Mission District.