[[Image:Palace-Theater-as-it-appeared-on-August-15,-1964.jpg]] '''Palace Theater as it appeared on August 15, 1964.'''

...sed Highrise|Tenth and Market Streets]], even before the [[Fox Theater|Fox Theater]] was built across the street, an unusual circular building occupied the so

'''Early bus and streetcar passing the Amazon Theater on Geneva Avenue 1937''' ...ch as "The Boston Strangler" and "The Vampire Lovers" -- became The Apollo Theater, and almost overnight began showing Filipino films. The marquee would stay

...of about 500 people.2 This may be where Mr. Morse first got interested in theater, for he showed no sign of a literary or producing bent earlier in his life. ...Francisco Theater|Tom Maguire]] (famous early theater manager) managed the theater as a whole. Salmi then teamed up with two others to produce a futuristic dr

...ith neighborhood actors, and attracting city-wide audiences; one, the Exit Theater, continues today. The 509 Cultural Center was born as a performance space f

[[Image:Reinhabitory-Theater cover1.jpg]] ...] The group called their multi-species performance troupe the Reinhabitory Theater.

...t Chutes opened on May 1, 1902. For the grand opening, a new larger Chutes theater was advertised, this time seating 4000 people. The featured attraction at t ...that summer. All kinds of vaudeville acts continued to be booked into the theater.

[[Image:OFarrell-Theater P1100361.jpg]] '''The O'Farrell Theater, 2017.'''

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[[Image:Fox Theater Jan 2, 1962 opensfhistory wnp5.50587.jpg|550px]] '''Fox Theater on January 2, 1962.'''

...lor and Jones Streets, in the liminal space between the Tenderloin and the Theater district and Union Square, sits Shannon Street, dubbed Vets' Alley by local

...as also a very popular Italian theater revival, with the Washington Square theater only two blocks from the Modotti's home. By 1916 Tina was auditioning for parts in the amateur theater clubs that existed in the area. By 1917 she landed a part in the light oper

...the most interest in 1899 with her "hootchy kootchy" dance. 1900 saw many theater productions including Nora Bayes. The fact that she had just finished a suc

...t Jewry of the city. They came to the conclusion that only through Yiddish Theater would it be possible to reach their hearts and plant a longing for the Yidd

...eekends as a preteen was to go to the [[Straight Theater demolished|Haight Theater]] and spend the entire day. The cost was 20 cents to get in and the 50 cent

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...diners or at a joss house see several worshippers coming and going, at the theater on a busy night, tourists shared the place with hundreds of Chinese. As Jos ...so that the late spectator paid for exactly as much as he saw. Many white theater-goers, however, saw "over the box a notice in plain English, 'Admission fif

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...the group raised the necessary funds and on December 8, 1911, at the Cort Theater under the baton of Henry Hadley, the San Francisco Symphony made its debut.

...r Memorial Opera House in 1932, there had been performances in the Adelphi Theater, Grand Opera House and the Tivoli, a former beer garden. The great tenor En

...Digger Concept of 'Free'|"Free."]] Parallel to the Bread and Circus puppet theater on the East Coast, the Diggers staged in parks and backyards around San Fra

...cisco with $3,000 worth of murre eggs, enough to found his Dramatic Museum theater.

...ake of Marshall Square, though anymore it is known only by the name of its theater, the Orpheum. ...antecedents thoroughly obscured, its namesake is only known as the Orpheum Theater.

...d banking and finance.) The building has also housed a bathhouse, a puppet theater, a garment factory, and, most recently, offices for Melvin Belli's law firm

[[Image:Barbara-Bosson-at-The-Committee-Theater.jpg]] '''Barbara Bosson in front of The Committee Theater at 622 Broadway, circa 1967.'''

...everal Construction Battalions to build airstrips and roads in the Pacific Theater. These units were also expected to be prepared for defensive combat, thus

...legendary midnight musicals at the [[Remembering the Palace Theatre|Palace Theater in North Beach]]. With titles like “Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma” and “ ...that was dedicated to distributing free food and to creating free art and theater. They first performed as an informal group of friends in wild costumes doin

In the spring of '84, a group of activist punks had organized two street theater action [[1984 War Chest Tours II|"tours"]] of corporations involved in nucl

'''View east on Haight Street, Haight Theater in background.'''

...San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Center for the Arts Galleries and Theater, and Yerba Buena Gardens. Moscone Convention Center, two major highrise hot

...ily background includes both Chinese and Filipino. His parents ran a movie theater and Tony was entranced by the glamor and excitement he saw on screen. His

...ded in a sad eviction in 1987. It was a farm with farm animals, gardens, a theater, a school, an art gallery, communal kitchen, a punk rock club, and a challe ...over 70 farm animals co-existed with special classes for K-3, kid-produced theater on the big stage, rehearsals, an art gallery, regular pageants, festivals,

...ing with some people from Living Theater organized a solemn, dramatic mass theater piece, a mock funeral procession through the crowded commercial district ne ...ntown business district, denouncing corporations and banks, doing guerilla theater, and pulling off creative direct action without arrests. Fittingly they ren

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...rious siblings in San Francisco during this period, opened their O’Farrell Theater. [[Image:Mitchell Bros OFarrell Theater 1974 by Joey Harrison.jpg]]

[[Image:Dec 24 2011 annual Holiday Concert at Castro Theater DSC 0355.jpg]] ...ncisco Gay Men's Chorus performing at annual Holiday Concert at the Castro Theater, Dec. 24, 2011.'''

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[[Image:Nov 8 1955 elephant vaudeville ad for GG Theater AAA-8845.jpg]] '''Elephant advertises vaudeville act at Golden Gate Theater, Nov. 8, 1955.'''

...o MSRy 266 36-Line on Folsom Street. Ad for film at Roosevelt (later York) Theater wnp14.10012.jpg|800px]]

...rt the York Theater, a run-down movie house on 24th and York Streets, to a theater performing plays with a "feminist, multicultural aesthetic." There—at 24t '''The Roosevelt Theater in 1951, at the corner of York and 24th.'''

...ich dropped from a 60-foot tower into an artificial lake. In later years a theater, a railroad and wild animal exhibitions were added.

...es in equally agile dancing. It was also before the years when the Chinese theater became overwhelmed with male impersonators, women in heroes’ roles. ...s would be prohibitively expensive. There is no longer a full-time Chinese theater in the City (shockingly enough, there isn’t one in Taipei either), and ev

...r the project integrated cultural amenities with commerce in buildings for theater, music, cinema, dance, decorative, fine and literary arts, a lyceum, and an

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...ong with musicals was and still is the Castro Theater, the 1920s-era movie theater in the heart of the gay district. What could be better than flaunting your

...al English Diggers of the 1640s. The San Francisco Diggers combined street theater, anarcho direct action, and art happenings in their social agenda. Their mo

...e by campus police as he attempted to approach the microphone at the Greek Theater a year earlier was not lost on those battling for free speech in SF. Both t ...s committed to radical leftist ideology such as Lenny Bruce and The Living Theater were being put out of business by cops harassing and jailing the operators

...e vantage point represents another. No assumption of center, no proscenium theater requiring more ticket money in order to see from the intended vantage point

...n during the Tattoo You Tour, some punk rockers who worked at the Electric Theater on Market (next door to the Warfield, and today the Crazy Horse Gentlemen's ...lasses at USF. Instead, I was selling tickets and popcorn at the Electric Theater, next door to the Warfield on Market St. I think today it is an adult movi

...his watch, and his being instrumental in getting the American Conservatory Theater to settle in San Francisco and operate on a solid business basis.

...r and the Holding Company]], The Loading Zone, America Needs Indians, Open Theater, [[San Francisco Tape Music Center|Tape Center]], the Merry Pranksters, and

...movement. The Mime Troupe grew to become a driving force in the “guerrilla theater” movement of the 1960s. This movement was characterized by biting politic ...on between them. Although not nearly as overtly political as its guerrilla theater roots, the Pickles nevertheless continued to exhibit political undertones i

...-seventies. Adjacent to this intersection is the Roxie theater, an ex-porn theater specializing in independent and foreign films, the Picaro Cafe, the Compoun

...lpture, farm, community center, school without walls, and human and animal theater. The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Make-a-Circus, and The Jones Family all too

...p to earn mentally unfit draft status during the Vietnam War. While bridge theater has ranged from the revolutionary to the farcical, suicide has been the tra

...its supporting institutional network. For example, the established Yiddish theater, which catered to the tastes and tradition of the Jews of New York for a fu

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...ement wouldn't eject them, Marshall and Mrs. Richardson stalked out of the theater. The day after the flare-up in the theater, Richardson ran into Cora twice, first in the street, later in the Cosmopol

...and its closure in 2013, the club’s dancers worked to “make the Lusty Lady Theater the most triumphant peep show on Earth,” and successfully established a g ...about whether the girls could buy the club.”[9] When the owners, Multivue Theater, announced that they were closing the Lusty in 2003, the dancers seized the

...formerly housed the American Can Company was developed by fabric artists, theater and circus performers, leather workers, painters, sculptors, jewelers, phot ...r live-work community or the storefront art center they had developed as a theater, gallery and graphic arts studio. When the Redevelopment Agency accepted a

...fices. Their tactics of protest included blockades, door-chaining, street theater, and die-ins. By the end of the day, 72 people had been arrested.

...rotest in New York. They used tactics ranging from picketing and guerrilla theater to leafleting.(7) In December, activists staged a teach-in on the oppressio ...all Group Workshop, Media Workshop, Free Women's Press, and Women's Street Theater. The result of this marathon meeting was a four-part organizational plan fo

...wall advertising Hollywood Billiards used to abut the beautiful Paramount Theater, which was razed by the Shorenstein Company to make way for . . . a parking

...ent right through the wall at the lobby and all the way to the back of the theater. And these three foot pieces of wood with a scene title on them would come ...reviews in New York or some big town you’d have hundreds of people at the theater.” I said “Not in the Mission District.”

...n a boating accident; and the appearance in the lobby mirror of the Curran Theater of the ghostly image of a ticket taker, murdered there in the 1930s—none

I’m pretty sure the building with the curved roof is the old Lyceum Theater (now the Safeway parking lot): ...us posts], and [http://bernalwood.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/ghost-of-lyceum-theater-haunts-safeway-parking-lot/ Bernalwood] did a feature on them last week. Ho

...rop theater and flyers]] [[Union of Concerned Commies 1979-1980, agit-prop theater and flyers| Continue Dissent Tour]]

'''Wise Fool Puppet Theater, one of the performing participants in Reclaim May Day, 1998.'''

...to dances together. Or, sometimes they would go to the movies at the Tower Theater, a Spanish language movie house, by opening a side door and running in. The

...formances for this season are given in Civic Center Auditorium and Orpheum Theater.

...commoner. The audiences were horrified, as were the police, who closed the theater and banned the play. Hartmann himself was arrested, although critics called

...who are trying to stop their ship from returning to the Southeast Asia war theater. Some of the men had watched last April's peace march when 200,000 marched

...home to the 206-seat Buriel Clay Theater which serves as a site for annual theater productions, dance performances, musical concerts, film and video screening ...Festival, heightening the visibility of artists working in all disciplines—theater, music, dance, film, literature, visual arts, and more. APICC collaborates

...the popcorn buckets in which we would later serve the vegan dinner, to the theater’s old sound system speaker (which we used for the show’s PA) we found r

...ers]]'. In 1982 the Mitchell Brothers' was the only lap dancing stage show theater in town. The rest of the clubs were topless and the [[Strip-Club Business: ...your tips from lap dancing. After I was laid off at Mitchell Brothers' the theater stopped paying dancers wages, and the dancers had to pay to go to work. The

9. In fashion (John Galliano; Yohji Yamamoto) and the theater (Suzan Lori-Parks), Afro-Surreal excavates the remnants of this post-apocal ...nd Walker en masse, with Lam's Jungle as a center piece. Lorraine Hansbury Theater stages Genet's ''The Blacks'' and Baraka's ''The Dutchman'', while San Fran

...ings, lots of readings. We put one together at the short-lived City Lights Theater on Mason Street with Fernando Alegría and Victor Hernández Cruz in May 19

...as a "Northern California Premiere," the screening at the venerable Roxie Theater was introduced by a festival staffer as, "a film that will not appear in an ...Club|well-known Irish bar]] at the time, a mere two blocks from the Roxie Theater, had an "underground railway" in the basement that harbored the four, along

...presenter of contemporary and tribal Pilipino arts. Her newest dance/film/theater work, Incarcerated 6x9, will premiere in May of 2018 at Bindlestiff Studios [[Image:Bayview-opera-house-experimental-theater.jpg|350px|left]]

...milies who had dwelt there. Tourists today will find an enormous multiplex theater, apartment complexes, hotels, and numerous Japanese restaurants dominating

...chandise Mart Building (later Twitter) is visible on the left, and the Fox Theater on the right. Eventually it proceeds as far as 6th Street, turns south and

'''Union of Concerned Commies during their agitprop theater stage, 1980.'''

'''Night view of the Midway Theater at 585 Pacific Avenue in the Barbary Coast, c. 1910.'''

...local ecological consciousness of the Bay Area. Toured with "Reinhabitory Theater" of multispecies stories in 1977 throughout Northern California to inspire

...in the Financial District. It was called "Working at Play—Playing at Work Theater" and consisted of a serious of office tasks portrayed in their full absurdi

Thus began the street theater phase of the UCC. The declaration of war—backed up with a list of typical

...d economic projects. Clara and her suitors often went to the 'Metripolitan Theater' and even Chastina and Alfred "saw Hamlet played by Mr. Murdock." One eveni

...room, you will reach the [[Mitchell Brothers |Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theater]], where your thirst for sleaze (and grotesquely overpriced drinks) can be

...of variously weird compartments like the different rooms in Hesse's Magic Theater." It was said to have "as many levels and ladders, as a Hopi Indian pueblo.

The Warchest Tours were a roving guerrilla-theater nonviolent direct action that confronted the corporations that fund and con ...Collective encouraged avoiding arrest, nonviolent direct action, guerrilla theater, creative protest and fun. We advertised "NO MONITORS," refused to ask or n

5. “The Theater Programmes,” ''San Francisco Chronicle'', March 16, 1902, p. 21

...n Howard at U. C. Berkeley, assisting him on the construction of the Greek Theater. But her ambition was to open her own practice. She took the State licensin

...no companies, film-makers with whole movies unseen, artists in no gallery. Theater made an appearance where there were no curtains.

...rerunner of [[Politics of Business|Ralston’s water plan]]), Maguire sold a theater to the city for use as a city hall. Maguire's bar provided a political educ 28. Ibid., passim; for Maguire and the sale of the theater, see Lotchin, ''San Francisco: 1846—1856'', pp. 219, 223.<br>

...of the atrocities within Chile and asserted their opposition through song, theater, and visual arts. Rene Castro is a Chilean exile forced to settle in the Ba ...rformed with him.”(16) The joint benefit concert at the Berkeley Community Theater on the 7th Anniversary of La Peña kept the space open and thriving. Read a

...nced “payter” and “mayter.” The Saturday matinee audience at the [[Avenue Theater|Avenue]] found this hilarious. The movie English affected all of us in the

...ing smiles on peoples' faces. The Sisters mix facts and levity, truths and theater to raise our communities in all aspects of their lives. While often being v