Jim Gladstone

Dec 9, 2024 | ebar.com | Jim Gladstone

Sketchfest returns this weekend for a 22nd citywide celebration of mirth. With icons like Laraine Newman, Bill Murray, the casts of "Futurama" and "Bob's Burgers," as well as Kathryn Hahn at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, there are plenty of popular events to go around at multiple venues in San Francisco. Here are a few of the queer performers and queer-focused programs worth checking out.

Nov 25, 2024 | ebar.com | Jim Gladstone

"Sugar. Butter. Flour." This three-word refrain rings throughout "Waitress," the musical now being served up as holiday fare at the San Francisco Playhouse. It's not sung sweetly, but with an odd atonality, reminiscent of eccentric 1980s neo-folk act The Roches. While most of the tunes are more mellifluous than this, the show as a whole lands with a similar weirdness.

Nov 22, 2024 | passportmagazine.com | Jim Gladstone |Jimmy Im

8 San Francisco offers visitors a wide-range of new cultural, culinary, nightlife and outdoor experiences  to explore. Since 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge has served as San Francisco’s international icon, as closely identified with the city as Paris’ Eiffel Tower or Sydney’s Opera House.

Nov 19, 2024 | ebar.com | Jim Gladstone

Kausar Mohammed is dreaming of a theatrical Christmas. The queer Pakistani actress, who grew up in San Jose, is thrilled to be playing one of the heroines of the Jane Austen canon, Elizabeth Darcy, in "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley," now playing December 4-29 in a TheatreWorks Silicon Valley production at Palo Alto's Lucie Stern Theatre.

Nov 19, 2024 | ebar.com | Jim Gladstone

Barbara Dixon, aka Broadway Barbara, is a has-been/never-been of the Great White Way. Always the chorine, never the star, her persona sugarcoats the prickly bitterness of Elaine Stritch with the eternal sunshine of Barbara Cook (Kick in a little Gwen Verdon to boot).