by Frances Phillips | Oct 20, 2016
Playwright Cherrie Moraga and Brava! for Women in the Arts are collaborating to further develop and fully stage a new play, The Mathematics of Love. This meditation on death and dying examines the role of “spirit” as told through the bodies of people forgotten by...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 30, 2016
Premiered: Workshop production, February-March, 1999; full production, June 30-July 23, 2000 Kenn Watt, the ensemble the The Fifth Floor, and the Magic Theater collaborated on the creation and development of Summertime, a new play by Charles Mee, Jr. The...
by Frances Phillips | May 31, 2016
Part site-specific performance, part art installation, and part tourist attraction, The Poco Loco Tour explored the social, political, cultural and economic forces that have defined and redefined San Francisco’s Mission District. The work featured a 90-minute,...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 19, 2016
Collaborating with SFJAZZ, renowned musician John Santos composed a suite for jazz orchestra that explored the indigenous music of the Caribbean and the Americas in a modern context. Traditions in Transition, was premiered by the SFJAZZ All-Star High School Ensemble—a...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 12, 2016
Actress, singer, teacher, and writer Rhodessa Jones collaborated with incarcerated women, ex-offenders, and other artists to create My Life in the Concrete Jungle, “a magical-realist journey into the heart of the American urban wilderness,” inspired by Amos Tutuola’s...