This Week in San Francisco.
Every week we review some of the best of events and happenings in San Francisco. To plan your fun beyond this week, just explore our comprehensive events calendar. |
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Bay One Acts (BOA) Festival
Through March 13, 2010
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This showcase for new playwrights usually features a dozen new and exciting works by Bay Area writers.
Eureka Theatre 215 Jackson St.
Info: (415) 776-7427
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Shanghai
Through September 5, 2010
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Shanghai explores the tumultuous history that has resulted in one of the world's most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities. It features more than 130 oil paintings, furniture and rugs, revolutionary posters, works of fashion, movie clips, and contemporary installations - all visual documents of the city's rich and ever-changing culture.
Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin St.
Info: (415) 581-3500
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Cartier and America
Extended through May 9, 2010
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Cartier and America celebrates the imagination and creativity of Cartier in the 20th century. Cartier came to fame as the “King of Jewelers” during the Belle Époque for his beautifully made diamond and platinum jewelry created for the courts of Europe and Americans of the Gilded Age.
Legion of Honor 100 34th Ave.
Info: (415) 863-3330
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Ewan Gibbs San Francisco
Through June 27, 2010
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This suite of drawings offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. Ewan Gibbs has translated photographs of the city into marks commonly used for knitting patterns to form a kind of visual code. The resulting images, recognizable from a distance, become more abstract and fleeting at close range.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third St.
Info: (415) 357-4000
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Through March 14, 2010
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In the land of Caucasus, a servant girl saves the life of an abandoned baby boy. But when the wealthy mother returns to claim him, their fates lie in the hands of a wily, unpredictable judge whose concern for the poor is rivaled only by his concern for saving his own hide.
Geary Theater 415 Geary St.
Info: (415) 749-2228
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SF Seals Goodwill Baseball Tour of Japan
Through Spring 2010
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The 1949 U.S. Goodwill Baseball Tour of Japan was one of the first peacetime cultural exchanges of the post-war era between the two nations. The tour captured the imagination of the Japanese public with a fervor unmatched by any other pre-war or post-war baseball tour of Japan.
Society of California Pioneers 300 Fourth St.
Info: (415) 957-1849
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info@californiapioneers.org
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Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Through June 8, 2010
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Linda Ellia turns the page on history by inviting 600 people to transform one of the most inflammatory books of the 20th Century - Hitler's Mein Kampf. The hundreds of pages in the exhibition offer a remarkable display of different artistic styles and present a multiplicity of voices and perspectives ranging from angry to mournful to hopeful.
Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission St.
Info: (415) 655-7800
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Wicked
Ongoing
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Wicked is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells how these two become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.
Orpheum Theatre 1192 Market St.
Tickets: (415) 512-7770
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