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...
View ArticleSF 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...
View ArticleSF 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...
View ArticlePHOTOS: 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...
View ArticleSan Francisco nonprofit theater group 42nd Steet Moon stays open with help of...
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....
View ArticleSf 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleSF State’s “Spring Awakening” play showcases students’ musical and theatrical...
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,...
View ArticleSF 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...
View ArticleSF 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...
View ArticleSF State’s Got Talent engages incoming student community
Welcome Days serve to get new SF State students acquainted with the campus, but only SF State’s Got Talent yields a fast track to on-campus fame. With everything from kung fu to beatboxing, the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: SF State’s retelling of “Othello” kicks off theatre arts season Aug. 30
For the people of Venice and Cyprus — the survivors at least — only a void existed. Civilization was abandoned and brutalized by a catastrophe capsizing everything familiar. In this post-apocalyptic...
View ArticleSF State cinema student Chandra Reyes takes another glance ‘through the...
A young woman with painted-black hair awakens inside a square, checkerboard room — and she is not alone. She is being watched by an anthropomorphic hare, a young man wearing a white waistcoat...
View ArticleVIDEO: “A Pinoy Midsummer” recreates Shakespeare comedy with Filipino twist
The dry percussive sounds of the kulintang punctuated every graceful leap and sweeping movement as Hermia tried to escape from the unyielding clutch of Demetrius. At Bindlestiff Studio on Sixth and...
View Article99 Stock Productions to present “Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness”...
As if the first couple weeks of school were not crazy enough, 99 Stock Productions is bringing their performance of “Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness” to SF State’s Studio Theatre Sept. 7...
View ArticleOne-woman show ‘Fortunate Daughter’ juggles family values, sexual identity
There is no perfect way to say, “I am gay.” SF State graduate student Thao P. Nguyen plans to show her parents that she is gay instead of telling them. “My plan is to...
View ArticleOriginal student plays to hit big stage at One-Act Fringe
This fall, the biannual One-Act Fringe series expands as students are challenged in adapting their performances to a larger format at McKenna Theatre, the main stage in the Creative Arts Building....
View ArticleSF State graduate Patrick O’Sullivan revitalizes acting career
Right after graduating from the theatre arts program at SF State in 1999, Patrick Celtic O’Sullivan began his professional career immediately, when he landed a job — at the Olive Garden. O’Sullivan,...
View Article“Shotgun!” displays off-the-cuff student acts
Most college students understand the feelings associated with having to produce decent work under duress and intense time constraints, but believe it or not, a large group of student directors, writers...
View ArticleVIDEO: SF State takes on romantic tragedy ‘Lorenzaccio’
The stage of SF State’s Little Theatre is an arena of manufactured shadows. Giant mirror-plated pillars surround the stage and can be rotated on command to bounce the ominous lighting in any direction....
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