Stirfry Theatre hasn’t pulled any punches in finding the first vehicle for its mission of showcasing Asian-American actors in shows that have no specific Pacific leanings.

In Onegin, a three-act ballet new to us by the gay South African choreographer John Cranko, San Francisco Ballet have a hit on their hands, a romance that belongs in an opera house.

If there’s a recession on, you’d never have known it from the gay face of the crowd for San Francisco Ballet’s opening night gala last Thursday.

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there," said American inventor Charles F. Kettenring. That can also be said of Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project, which for the past seven years has challenged playwrights.

Some kids run off to join the circus, or at least they used to in sufficient number to coin a cliche. But Lorenzo Pisoni ran away from the circus to become a regular kid.

Lorenzo Pisoni confronts his circus past