
Don Quixote, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, April 27, 2012
November 24, 2025Let the ballet snobs pound sand in the corrida if they find neither rhyme, reason, nor...

San Francisco Ballet’s Program 7, an All-Balanchine Affair
November 18, 2025Top honors for the program go to the company’s interpretation of The Four Temperaments, to music...

Broadway Review: Jesus Christ Superstar
November 16, 2025Today, with The Book of Mormon taking irreverence to new heights and shows like American Idiot...

San Francisco Ballet Offers Raymonda Act III, RAkU and Guide to Strange Places
November 13, 2025In a season peppered with contemporary world premieres and dramatic works, it is easy to forget...
NY Philharmonic’s Modern Beethoven Festival Concludes
November 11, 2025There’s nothing worse than a complacent performance of a Beethoven symphony. Being such a staple of...

Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Presents The Fifth Season, Symphonic Dances and Glass Pieces
November 11, 2025Frances Chung is as resilient as bundled cable. Davit Karapetyan partners her with genteel correctness. They...

San Francisco Ballet: It’s in the Programming
November 2, 2025The world premiere of Mark Morris’s Beaux, set to Martinu's Concerto for Harpsichord (1935), is a...

Dance Review: NYCB Offers Wheeldon’s Les Carillons and DGV
October 29, 2025The ability to enjoy DGV seems to me largely dependent on how irritating one finds Michael...

San Francisco Ballet’s Dazzling Onegin Opens the 2012 Season
October 25, 2025From the luscious Santo Loquasto sets and costumes, to the Tchaikovsky musical pastiche, and the brilliant...

San Francisco Ballet’s 2012 Gala Performance
October 21, 2025A gala performance such as this, kicking off San Francisco Ballet’s 2012 season, is inevitably programmed...













