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Business Owners Wary of Neighborhood Improvement Plan
Mission District business owners and residents voiced concerns last week regarding a new citywide initiative designed to improve neighborhood commercial districts in San Francisco. As part of Mayor Ed...
View ArticleThe Bright River at Brava
En Español In the hip-hop play “The Bright River,” the dead are louder than the living, but their society is just as unfair. This contemporary version of Dante’s Inferno is a musical journey through...
View ArticleConstruction Drama at Brava
En Español Three men handed out flyers in front of the 471-seat Brava Theater Thursday night but they were not advertising the upcoming Beebo Brinker Chronicles. Instead, their flyers slammed the...
View ArticleHey Kids! Sizing Down My Holidays 12-10 to 12-18
Sizing Down My Holidays 12 – 10 to 12 – 18 Hey Kids! is a weekly feature looking at what’s coming up for families and kids of all ages. Hello Mission Families-the winter holiday season is upon us in...
View ArticleMission Will Be Test Site for More Sunday Streets
If a meeting scheduled for next Monday goes well, the Mission will get four consecutive Sunday Streets in 2012, on the first Sundays in May, June, July and August. That is double the number held in...
View ArticleBrava Hosts Switchboard Music Festival
On Sunday Brava Theater will host the fifth annual Switchboard Music Festival, an eight-hour event with nonstop music that pushes the boundaries of rock, jazz, classical, hip-hop, world and just about...
View ArticleMixing Sounds and Silence at the SF Electronic Music Festival
It’s Saturday night at the Brava Theater, and a man and a woman stand on stage in front of an old school projector. Black microchips lay against a white backdrop, and the two use an audio jack to...
View ArticleHappening Now: Mission Latin Jazz Festival
Four Latin jazz bands will perform throughout this afternoon and early evening at the Mission’s First Annual Latin Jazz Festival. The music begins at 2 p.m. with San Francisco brass band VL Trio, led...
View Article‘Night Wakes Dawn’
From Brava Theater’s website: ‘Night Wakes Dawn’ is a musical, theatrical exploration of the beliefs and prophecies initiated by the Mayan culture surrounding December 21, 2012 and tells a story of how...
View ArticleThree Comics Ring in the New Year, Hilarity Ensues
On New Year’s Eve, three of the Bay Area’s funniest women will perform their signature brand of stand-up comedy at a benefit for the Brava Theater. Marga Gomez, named SF Weekly‘s “Best Comedian of...
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Esta Noche Back, But Just for Tonight
It’s been eight months since a high-heeled shoe strutted across the stage of Esta Noche. Known as San Francisco’s only Latino gay bar, open on Rondel and 16th Streets since 1981, the illustrious bar...
View ArticleSketchfest Comedy Festival Comes to Brava Theater
Featuring national headliners alongside local talent and up-and-coming acts, the 14-year old Sketchfest has grown from a showcase for Bay Area sketch comedy groups into an annual festival with diverse...
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Mary and Joseph Seek Shelter in SF Mission
Take one traditional nativity story. Swap Bethlehem for San Francisco, add two parts devil and henchman, one choir, a dash of Latin rhythm, and top with one piñata. Let the mixture mature, then enjoy...
View ArticleLaugh Your Way Into the New Year at Brava Theater
A star lineup of local Latino comedians invite you to ring in the new year at Brava Theater, where Marga Gomez, Lydia Popovich, Chris Storin, Monica Palacios, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, and Betty Pazmiño...
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Brava Plans Major Renovation, Expansion for 2016
The Brava Theater Center is planning a major renovation and expansion by the end of the year, and has just received a $200,000 grant from the Super Bowl 50 committee that brings it a step closer to...
View ArticleThe Sound of the Mission’s History Returns Remixed
Think you know the Mission and its history? You might discover something new at the Brava Center for Theater and the Arts when El Son de la Misión re-opens for a two-night on Friday, Nov. 11. The show...
View ArticleFeminist Icon Gloria Steinem Speaks to the Mission
A career in journalism and advocacy that spans half a century has not only equipped 82-year-old feminist icon Gloria Steinem with a trove of accomplishments and wisdom, but also with a disarming sense...
View ArticleThree premieres at Brava! For Women in the Arts
This summer, Brava! For Women in the Arts will premiere one film and two plays as part of the theater’s Summer of Xicanas series. Two of the events examine Argentina’s Dirty War, a period in the 70s...
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Neighborhood Notes: HOMEY returns, activist bus ads, Brava sneak peek
HOMEY is returning to the Mission! After spending years tucked away in the upstairs space of a building in SoMa, the originally Mission-based nonprofit Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth is...
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Joan Baez, Olga Talamante and Lila Downs talk Trump and resistance
Musicians Joan Baez and Lila Downs took the stage at the Mission’s Brava Theater on Sunday and offered hundreds of people a roadmap for coping with uncertain times. In front of a packed house of about...
View ArticleNeighborhood notes: “Baby Beast,” Son Jarocho Festival, and new art at MCCLA
“Baby Beast” tamed again A 60-unit housing project proposed at 19th and Bryant streets has stalled yet again in the face of fierce community opposition. During a Planning Commission hearing Thursday,...
View ArticleNeighborhood Notes: Dolores Park updates and more
As sun shines on Dolores, safety and trash still a concern We’ve come a long way since the Aug. 3 daylight shooting in Dolores Park, most participants agreed at a small Thursday night meeting hosted by...
View ArticleListen Local: A chat with Brava’s executive director about its new cabaret
Last Thursday for Listen Local, we spoke with Stacie Powers Cuellar, the executive director at Brava, about new cabaret space at the theater — a miniature theater space that will feature music, comedy...
View ArticleBrava’s ‘Overlooked Latinas’ defies the elements needed for a dang good show
When many of us think of “good theater,” a live telenovela with a lone actress in Adidas warm-up pants may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But Overlooked Latinas, at the Brava Theater...
View ArticleCuba Caribe festival, the alternative to a life without dancing
For Ramon Alayo, it’s hard to imagine a life without dancing. “I don’t know how to do other things … it fulfills my heart, every time I dance,” said the 42-year-old director of the Alayo Dance...
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A night of delicious food and intimate storytelling at the Brava Theater Center
Earlier this summer, nonprofit organization La Cocina hosted their biannual performance series “F&B: Voices from the Kitchen” at the Brava Theater. Attendees were treated to tasty morsels like...
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‘Who’s Your Mami Comedy’ offers a chance to laugh so as not to cry
Thursday night’s sold-out premiere of Brava Theatre’s new monthly stand-up show was a rare opportunity to belly-laugh about painful, seemingly hopeless things — like gentrification, border walls, and...
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Benefit for Mission Artists Attracts Latino All Stars
The fundraiser tonight for leading cultural figures Rene Yañez and Yolanda Lopez, who are being evicted from the home they have lived in for 35 years, will bring together some of the icons of the...
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Taking a beating with Marga Gomez
Just when Marga Gomez thought she was out, leering shadows from her past pulled her back in. Last year, after finishing an extended run of her 12th one-woman show Latin Standards, Gomez declared that...
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Neighborhood Notes: Alley Cat reopens, a dance party and more
Alley Cat Reopening Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery will reopen on Thursday, Oct. 29, according to owner Kate Razo. The bookstore, located on 24th Street between Treat and Harrison streets, […]...
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Documentary on domestic workers will screen at the Brava Theater
Mirna Arana, a 33-year-old house cleaner from Guatemala, was newly married and pregnant with her first child on the morning of 2017 when she arrived at 6 a.m. to clean […] Documentary on domestic...
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