SF State makes strong showing at San Francisco International Film Festival
Shining stars as well as up-and-coming talent from the film industry gathered at cinematic landmarks around the bay April 19-May 3 for the International Film Festival, and local talent from SF State made…
SF State cinema students to showcase talent at 52nd Film Finals
Film industry giants like Danny Glover and Dana Carvey attended SF State, and this Friday a new class of possible stars will get their time to shine on the silver screen. The 52nd…
SF State’s “Spring Awakening” play showcases students’ musical and theatrical talents
An hour and a half before the show, between having makeup artists apply heavy liner to their eyes, even heavier blush to their cheeks and dashing onto the stage for brief sound checks,…
“CockTales” facilitates open expression of masculinity and fatherhood
In Latin cultures, machismo is defined by pride, physical strength and power, but 22-year-old Abel Gomez Jr. takes pride in something else: his queer identity. It wasn’t always this way, Gomez kept his…
Sf State theatre arts extends annual One-Act Fringe Festival
Most playwriting students at SF State never get to see their creations come to life on stage with actors, design or sound. This is exactly why Roy Conboy, head of the playwriting program…
San Francisco nonprofit theater group 42nd Steet Moon stays open with help of donations
In a city filled to the brim with theatrical and musical talent, 42nd Street Moon stands alone in opening its curtains to the lesser-known but ever-lovable musicals of the 1920s to the 1970s….
PHOTOS: SF State poetry organization creates room for student expression
For junior Imani Cezanne, writing poetry is like saying a prayer. She likes it to be completely silent, so she can feel the words come to her as she puts them down on…
SF State graduate Nicole Maxali leads acting workshop “SoulWork”
Tucked away in the SoMa District lies a studio where you’re encouraged to speak in gibberish, perform wacky gestures and even project the alphabet with otherworldly intonations. In Nicole Maxali’s workshop at Bindlestiff…
SF State’s annual Vagina Monologues production aims to entertain and inform
Fourteen women plan to get down to the dirty, dramatic and droll details of womanhood in SF State’s third annual production of The Vagina Monologues, which begins April 4. Due to the sell-out…
SF State year-long dance class puts on show in McKenna Theater thru March 3
Captivating someone without speaking can be difficult. But for dancers this is their passion, and they’ll show off their talents at their annual recital this week. University Dance Theater, an auditioned class, is…
SF State alums take their funny business to SF Sketchfest
SF Sketchfest added a few more years to the life the hundreds who attended, if laughter truly is the best medicine. Three directors, Cole Stratton, Janet Varney and David Owen, who all attended SF…
SF State theater group puts modern twist on biblical story in “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”
It’s a story of biblical proportions. The trial of the ultimate betrayal. Judas Iscariot, the apostle of Jesus Christ, went down in history as the disciple who turned in his soon-to-be crucified leader to…
SF State student and alums Do It Live!
Commitment, hard work and friendship are three of the elements that helped one SF State student and two alumni create and maintain their own theater company a year ago, Do It Live! Productions….
SF State playwright’s work featured in San Francisco, New York City
For many students, the idea of starting to self-promote and get to work in their field of study is a goal that comes after graduation or graduate school. However, graduate student Braden Marks…
VIDEO, REVIEW: “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” at SF State
Humor isn’t all Jersey Shore rejects and fart jokes, every now and again intelligent comedy finds its way through the pop culture haze and it’s important to grab on before the curtain falls….
Endgames improv groups seeks to make spontaneous comedy more accessible, popular in San Francisco
Most people have had a relationship that they would consider “F!#&ed up,” whether it was the constant bickering, problems in bed or his obsession with “Knight Rider,” but a local improvisation group has…
“Trial of Lucullus” radio play reinterpreted by SF State theater department
Radio brings many things to a modern world like irrelevant one-hit-wonders from the ’90s, that dream doctor show at obsolete hours and … the condemnation of Roman generals to Hades? Assistant professor of…
“Wallflower” play merges 1950s charm with a Shakespearean classic
What happens when the magic from the forest of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with the shyness and the charm of the 1950s are mixed? Well, other than a very eloquent malted shake order,…
SF State theater students modernize Shakespeare’s “Henry VI”
Intrigue, subterfuge, political drama and a ticking bomb ready to go off at any moment. No, this isn’t an episode of “24″. This is Shakespeare. Do It Live Productions, led by Kenny Toll,…
SF State Theatre Arts Department breathes new life into “The Barber of Seville”
Welcoming students old and new, the Theater Arts Department is presenting “The Barber of Seville” for the second time this year in hopes of not only providing great entertainment but also spotlighting one…
PHOTOS: SF State debuts “Barber of Seville”
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VIDEO: SF State calls for an end to violence against women
Video by Brittany Doohan In honor of V-Day, SF State women are proving to peers that they can stand up to violence. Knuth Hall hosted the first of two performances Tuesday of “The…
SF State student displays struggles of bi-cultural life
Each Women’s History Month brings to light a multitude of issues. Now, in honor of the nationally renowned period of appreciation, a one-act play in San Francisco is taking a more specific cultural…
‘Dance Anywhere’ showcases performers with disabilities
A true entertainer is in no need of fancy footwork to achieve a memorable performance. On Friday afternoon, performers across the world celebrated “Dance Anywhere,” a simultaneous, unplanned public performance. The San Francisco…
VIDEO: Madamn Burnz host ‘Really Raw as flux’, an aerial acrobatic and raw food show
Flashing lights and psychedelic rock music set the scene at the Jellyfish Gallery Thursday, Feb. 24, for the aerial silk and fire eating performance by Madamn Burnz and her students for Raw as…
Bike ballet gets boisterous in Bayview
What do you get when you take a group of charismatic women that mixes funky dance moves with daring stunts on bikes? The answer: the Bay Area Derailleurs bike dance team. The San…
SF Sketchfest rings in the laughs
If you had told Garry Shandling 30 years ago that 1,400 people would pay money and crowd into a theater to see him, he probably would have made a joke that it was his…
