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Review: THE WISDOM OF EVE at Altarena Playhouse
THE WISDOM OF EVE blends the magic of the stage with the shadows behind to expose the full world of theater. Here you find the blood, sweat, and tears that can take people to the top as well take people down as they climb. Altarena Playhouse’s THE WISDOM OF EVE takes you on a wild ride through the underbelly of theater life.
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Review: SPANISH STEW at New Conservatory Theatre Center
Eight-year-old Marga Gomez should’ve paid more attention when her Latino parents tried to teach her how to cook. For the father, it’s a matter of cultural pride, the mother, a means to catch a man. Fast forward to 1976 when she desperately needs the recipe to Caldo Gallego (Spanish stew) to secure a cook’s job at San Francisco’s ACME Café. It’s just one of the many heartfelt anecdotes included in comic legend Marga Gomez’s lesbian coming out story making a World Premiere at NCTC.
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Photos: PARSIFAL at the San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera’s new production of Richard Wagner’s PARSIFAL runs from October 25 through November 13 on the War Memorial Opera House stage, and the production released photos.