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Crowds Long for Live Entertainment, but Barriers Remain

September 8, 2021September 14, 2021 The Guardsman madeline mueller, Julie Zigoris, theater, Janna Velasquez, cinema, Jennifer Bielstein, Patricia Miller, Mina Morita, Vaccines, A.C.T., vaccination, Crowded Fire Theatre, Health Order, Ben Bleiman, San Francisco Playhouse, music, performing arts, film, venues

With operations that draw together large and mostly indoor crowds, theaters and music venues have suffered enormously since the pandemic’s onset. And now entertainment establishments struggling to get back into business face fresh uncertainties with the Delta variant surging in San Francisco.

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“Incognito” is the thoughtful new play showing at Diego Rivera Theater

March 18, 2019October 16, 2019 The Guardsman Incognito, city college, Jonathon Potter, play, Violent Yung, john wilk, Mai Vang, CCSF, Jake Gleason, brain, Einstein, theater, drama, Robert Ayala, Lisa Martin, Theatre Department

By Lisa Martin lisamartin.562@gmail.com “Incognito,” a production put on by City College’s Theatre Department and directed by John

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Cradle Will Rock, A play that combines art, comedy and censorship

October 27, 2018October 16, 2019 The Guardsman Censorship, Sarah Berjan, Patricia Miller, Lisa Martin, Cradle Will Rock, Tim Robbins, Diega Rivera Theater, Orson Welles, Arts, Rockefeller, diego rivera, Great Deppression, theater

By Lisa Martin lmartin@theguardsman.com The Cradle Will Rock is an ambitious theatrical adaptation of the Tim Robbins film that will

Actors bring James Baldwin to life during summer artist residency program

September 5, 2018September 7, 2018 The Guardsman James Baldwin, Michael Almaguer, Mark Roche, Diego Rivera Theater, Artist Residency, theater, Lisa Martin, Delroy Lindo, Carl Lumbly

By Lisa Martin lisamartin.562@gmail.com For two weeks this summer, celebrated actors, Delroy Lindo and Carl Lumbly, developed a one-man play,

Theater Department Chair Gloria Weinstock retires to pursue her acting career

December 13, 2014February 25, 2020 The Guardsman Gloria Weinstock, city college, Danny Glover, CCSF, Theater Arts, artist, acting, theater, The Fillmore, charles innis, the Theater Arts Company of Westchester, students, director, Niko Plagakis, Clybourne Park, Theater Arts Department Chair

By Charles Innis The Guardsman After directing her swan song “Clybourne Park” for six productions throughout November, Theater Arts Department

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‘Heaven Can Wait’ continues its CCSF debut

November 14, 2014February 25, 2020 The Guardsman city college, ‘Heaven Can Wait’, play, Heaven, diego rivera theatre, Can, City College of San Francisco, Wait, CCSF, theater play, theater, Natasha Dangond, susan jackson, Theater Students, elisabetta silvestro, actor, show, actress, theatre, culture news

By Elisabetta Silvestro The Guardsman “Heaven Can Wait,” the last theater play directed by City College veteran teacher Susan

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Diego Rivera’s mural on display but out of view

August 29, 2012February 25, 2020 The Guardsman mural, diego rivera, theater, hernandez, calderon

By Peter Hernandez The Guardsman Getting a peek at one of the most important San Franciscan murals of