The San Francisco festival features for the first time in America a “Bal Littéraire” A New Play Night Club, an event that is wildly popular throughout France. Performed for one evening only, a unique hybrid of flash plays, songs, club dancing and literature, created the week of performance by six writers – three French and three American. “Bal Littéraire” is presented in association with San Francisco’s Litquake Literary Festival, the engaging evening “tells a story, a story with songs we can all dance to” as it unfolds in a celebratory club atmosphere with audience and artists dancing between scenes, a no-host bar and food.

Legendary performer Mikhail Baryshnikov takes the stage with Anna Sinyakina and a talented ensemble assembled by visionary director Dmitry Krymov. Based on a story by Nobel Prize–winner Ivan Bunin, In Paris is a dazzling new play set in the 1930s, which mixes movement with a romantic story and spectacular design.

Two powerful and absurd dark comedies from master playwright Samuel Beckett. In Endgame, Tony Award winner Bill Irwin takes on the role of Hamm, who is trapped between life and death with his young servant, Clov. Together they engage in a chess match of wits in this vivid exploration of the end of life.
“[Endgame is] monstrously funny . . . [with] striking vision” —The New York Times
"[Irwin] can turn something as simple as sitting on a stone or wiping his shoe into a poetic comedy” —San Francisco Chronicle

Following an altercation between their 11-year-old sons in Cobble Hill Park, Annette and Alan Raleigh agree to meet Veronica and Michael Novak to discuss the situation civilly - practice the art of co-existence rather than slaughter each other with insurance claims and lawsuits.

WEST COAST DEBUT OF EUROPE'S MOST ACCLAIMED HIP-HOP COMPANY!
Artistic Director Mourad Merzouki is at the forefront of the international, hip hop dance scene. Käfig’s sensational double bill of Correria and Agwa derives from an encounter between Mourad and 11 young male dancers from Rio de Janeiro at the Lyon Dance Biennial in 2006.

Held each spring for 15 days, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in one of the country’s most beautiful cities, featuring 200 films and live events, 14 juried awards and $70,000 in cash prizes, upwards of 100 participating filmmaker guests and diverse and engaged audiences with more than 70,000 people in attendance.

In a career that spanned over forty years, Bresson directed only thirteen feature films—plus a single short. It's not a large body of work for a man who ranks high in the critics’ pantheon of cinema gods.

After Film Q&A with Mick LaSalle at 5:00 pm.
17-year-old Prudence Friedman is 17 and, having lost her mother a few days ago, she is left alone in the family apartment. She meets Marilyn, a rebellious student who does up cars and motorbikes and lives life to excess. In order to try and win his affection, Prudence begins to behave in a way that could see her own life unravel in a way she could never have imagined.

This enchanting French soprano is an artist of fierce musical intelligence who is currently riding high on a string of impressive artistic accomplishments.

Beloved French composer Yann Tiersen will be performing Firday May 11, at the Regency Ballroom. Tiersen was well-known in France during the 90s both for his work on film and theater scores and his solo albums.

An iconoclastic artist, Nathalie Talec moves between live performance, installation, sculpture, and painting. For thirty years, she has developed her emotionally-charged “sentimental art,” proclaiming her ambition to re-enchant our daily lives.

After traveling to Montreal and Dallas, the popular fashion exhibition, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk will be making its final stop at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

Language, performativity, and process are preoccupations for many contemporary artists. The works in Descriptive Acts engage with both text and image, foregrounding complex and often fraught acts of description, narration, translation, and communication.