The music of the ’80s was known for - what? Hair, it turns out, as in the long-shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen hair on the swaggering guys in such heavy-metal bands as Poison, Ratt, Styx, White Snake, and Van Halen.

'Rock of Ages' brings on the music of the 1980s

Looking ahead to Bay Area theatrical offerings 2011-12

The idea was to pay tribute to the 20th anniversary of Angels in America with a new production in the Castro, just a few blocks from the theater where Tony Kushner’s transformative play was first staged in 1991.