Mar

29

LGBT Center’s “Soireé 8″ Annual Benefit Celebration Sat. April 10 – 7 to 11pm $95

Posted by ChrisCarnes | Posted in All, Benefit, Cabaret, Theater | Posted on 29-03-2010


Purchase tickets for Soiree 8 online NOW!

Join us for Soireé 8, celebrating the San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s eighth Anniversary! Indulge yourself in an evening of earthly delights fit for gods and goddesses. Enjoy mythically-inspired performances by San Francisco’s leading queer artists and performers. Rub elbows and brush wings with roaming Cupids, while enjoying decadent gourmet morsels and libations from San Francisco’s best restaurants.

This year's Honorary Co-Hosts are Theresa Sparks and David Campos. Enjoy a main stage emceed by special guests Jackie Beat and Bruce Vilanch! Enjoy performances by Barnaby's (sfBoylesque), Fauxnique, House of Salad, Miss Rahni, Precious Moments, Zoe Ballour & Citabria Phillips, Suppositori Spelling, Taiko Ren, Trixxie Carr and Veronica Klaus.

Later in the evening, Soireé 8 shifts into party mode, paying tribute to San Francisco’s queer nightlife. Local celebrity DJs China G, Honey Soundsystem and Nuxx will provide late-night, high-energy soundtrack. Guests can also bid on dozens of unique items in both silent and live auctions, including vacations, works of art and dining packages. Check out photos from last year’s event.


Special thanks to lead sponsor U.S. BANK. Also sponsored by California Pacific Medical Corporation, Pacific Gas & Electric, M2 Lubricants, Air New Zealand, Barefoot Bubbly, The Examiner, NCLR, San Francisco 49ers Foundation, Southwest Airlines, AT&T, Wells Fargo, Comcast, AAA of Northern California, Nevada and Utah, Greenleaf Produce, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Kaiser Permanente, Safeway, Horizons Foundation, Lennar Urban, Ernst & Young, Kimpton Hotels, Smith Group, Sunset Scavenger/ GGR, Patelco, Wald Law, Swirl Radio and Curve Magazine.

NOTE: No one under 21 years old will be admitted. All tickets are will call.

Would you like to further support the Center? Get involved as an Event Ambassador by selling five tickets and attend for free. Consider promoting your business with a donation of food or auction item.



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The Center is the home, heart and hands of the San Francisco Bay Area LGBT Community. We are dedicated to building community, creating opportunity and securing equality for all. Our work depends on individual financial contributions from people like you. Learn more about how you can support the Center or make a donation online via our website.

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Feb

22

Chelsea Handler “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang Tour”

Posted by ChrisCarnes | Posted in All, Comedy, Theater | Posted on 22-02-2010

-Friday, March 12- Davies Symphony Hall -Doors 9:30pm/ Show 10:30pm

NOTE FROM CHRIS:    Chelsea Handler is a great friend and champion of LGBT Rights! She was in San Francisco to MC the GLAAD Awards Dinner last May, honored with the prestigious Ally for Equality Award by the Human Rights Campaign and the celebrity Grand Marshal 2009 Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade. Her television show “Chelsea Lately” is consistently the highest-rated program on E! and she is outrageously funny in her “Sold Out” stand up comedy shows!

Tickets are $75.50 and $49.50   Click here to buy tickets Now!

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Feb

10

SF Magic Theatre’s Oedipus el Rey Opens to Rave Reviews, Now – February 28th

Posted by admin | Posted in All, Theater | Posted on 10-02-2010

Don’t Miss This Electrifying Myth for the Modern Age
Playing Now – February 28th


Alfaro may be the first, Sophocles included, to place the love of Oedipus and Jocasta squarely at the play’s tragic center. More than that, he makes it resonate with a passion fully enhanced not only by the spare poetry of his text but also by Greco’s intense staging and the naked vulnerability of two fully committed actors… [Read the full article here]
— Rob Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle

Let me start by just saying you should go see this play immediately. It runs until February 28 and I am serious. I’ve seen plays on every level, from grade school tantrum fiascos to Kneehigh Theater Company, but this may have been my best experience. [Read the full article here]
–Evan Karp, San Francisco Examiner

I found myself completely immersed in Alfaro’s transposition of the great Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex into a contemporary Latino barrio landscape…the translation succeeds with the same amount of drive and vigor as Sondheim-Laurents-Bernstein’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to 1950s barrio New York. [Read the full article here]
— Chloe Veltman, ArtsJournal

What the Audience is Saying:
Romi Dias (Jocasta) and Joshua Torrez (Oedipus)
Romi Dias (Jocasta) and Joshua Torrez (Oedipus)

I loved it! Very powerful, violent and passionate. Moving, intense, and sad.

The emphasis on memory and dwelling on the past was punctuated powerfully. I believe this theme combines Sophocles and Alfaro into timelessness.

I’ve never seen a play like this before, I loved it!

I loved all of the actors, especially the leads! They were amazing.

The acting was exceptional!

Don’t miss Oedipus el Rey!
If you like Oedipus you’ll love No Holds Barrio!
Luis Alfaro, playwright of Oedipus el Rey, performs his outrageous one-man show to benefit Magic Theatre
No Holds Barrio

A disturbingly hilarious one-man show starring Luis Alfaro, a box of Twinkies, and a handle of tequila

Where: Magic Theatre
When: One Night Only!
February 19, 2010 at 10pm (after Oedipus el Rey)
Tickets: $25 General Admission
$75 VIP - Includes Backstage Margarita Tour at 9:45pm (VIP tickets available via phone only, 415-441-8822)

In this one-man show featuring poetry, performance, and tequila slamming, Luis Alfaro takes the coming-of-age memoir on stage as he digs deep into his two-tongued history and tries to figure out what makes a Latino best. Filled with humor and heartfelt remembrance, this raucous evening of poetic tales, true confessions and performance rituals asks the fundamental question: can one be a Mexican and still love Twinkies? With one foot on each side of the border, Alfaro attempts to fuse his American sensibilities with his Mexican mustache, and keep his balance on the bicultural high wire act.
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