Theatre, Film and Exhibitions

Through May 10th
50th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival

The vanguard San Francisco International Film Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas, the first to reach the ripe old age of 50. The Festival is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in California’s most beautiful city. For more info, call (415) 561--5000 or visit sffs.org.

Extended Run
Menopause, The Musical

By your popular demand Menopause The Musical® has extended our run at Theatre 39 @ PIER 39. The show presents four very different women fighting at a lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, chocolate binges, memory loss, and more. It’s the hilarious celebration of women and The Change with a sound track that you can’t help but sing along with! For more info, visit theatre39-sf.com.

Through May 20th
Theatre

The world premiere of Past Perfect, a new play by Nicky Silver (author of the internationally acclaimed The Food Chain and Pterodactyls). This brutal comedy from the master of dark views of the American family is sure to shock and amuse. Past Perfect tells the story of a family on the brink of disaster that still finds time for one more argument. Never has a death in the family been this probing or this hysterically funny. Playing at America’s longest running professional queer theater, Theatre Rhino, in San Francisco’s Mission District. For info and reservations, call (415) 552-4100 or visit therhino.org.

Through May 27th
Theater

The A.C.T. presents Blackbird. Ray, a middle-aged office worker, receives a surprise visit from Una, a woman with whom he was involved 15 years earlier. As Una confronts him about the true nature of their past, what emerges is a complex portrait of a relationship that blurs the boundaries between lust, love, and something far more sinister. Hailed as a work that "has the potency of a 21st-century Oleanna" (Time Out London), Geary Theater, 415 Geary Street in Union Square. For info, call (415) 834-3200 or visit act-sf.org.

Through May 28th
The 2007 San Francisco Decorator Showcase

Celebrating its 30th year in grand style by remaking the stunning four-story mansion at 2901 Broadway (at Baker) on top of Pacific Heights. Designed in 1927 by award-winning architect Henry Clay Smith for industrialist Milton S. Ray, the mansion is being opened to the public for the first time ever. For info, call (415) 447-3117 or visit decoratorshowcase.org.

Through May 28th
Dance

DIVA fest 2007 is a theatre festival with a "female persuasion" celebrating womanhood from mink to matriarch and virgin to vamp for three weeks of plays, solos, cabaret and comedy. At the EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco. For more info, call (415) 931-1094 or visit theexit.org.

Through 06/03/2007
Orchids of the Americas

From the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains to the steamy Amazon rainforest, tropical America is home to thousands of species of orchids. Be instantly transported south of the border to see these botanical beauties in just the time it takes to travel to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. "Orchids of the Americas" is a gorgeous display of blooms from Bolivia to Brazil and beyond. At the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park. Open Tuesday-Sunday 9:00am-5:00pm. Ticket Info $5/Adults, $3/Youth (12-17), $3/Seniors (65+), $3/Students (with ID), $1.50/Children (5-11), Free/Children 4 and under. For more info, call (415) 666-7001 or visit conservatoryofflowers.org

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