Armistead Maupin News

Inspired by Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City," Joel Robare created a Bohemian tabletop with richly patterned china, potted plants, mushroom topiaries and unusual artifacts such as this ivory crustacean.

DANCE REVIEW Wonderboy, Basil Twist's adorably insecure puppet in Joe Goode's 2008 work of the same name, has grown up.

From Jack London Square to Jack Kerouac Alley, Dashiell Hammett Street to Armistead Maupin backroom, the Bay's geography is dotted with ready reminders of its old-school literary heritage.

"And," he said, "invariably someone comes along and says, 'Oh, shut up and just do it.'" In the case of his most recent hit, the acerbic Hollywood comedy The Little Dog Laughed, the "shut up and do it" provocateur was Armistead Maupin.

There aren't too many writers who can claim to have single-handedly created a literary genre, but with the launch on Monday of The Dog who Came in from the Cold, a sequel to Corduroy Mansions, Alexander McCall Smith can be said to be one of them.

Producer-director Alan Poul and Clear Channel Los Angeles will be honored at Outfest's annual Legacy Awards on Sept.

"She made her way to the ladies' room and barricaded herself in the left-hand stall.

"God knows she had tried." And so began the day for "lower Pacific Heights" resident Mary Ann Singleton in the Pacific Sun 's summer of '74 entry into episodic fiction, "The Serial," written for its San Francisco edition by the paper's 30-year-old "associate editor" Armistead Maupin.

"God knows she had tried." And so began the day for "lower Pacific Heights" resident Mary Ann Singleton in the Pacific Sun 's summer of '74 entry into episodic fiction, "The Serial," written for its San Francisco edition by the paper's 30-year-old "associate editor" Armistead Maupin.

The last time librettist Jeff Whitty and director Jason Moore were at the O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference, they were working on a little musical with puppets called "Avenue Q," a show that eventually went on to Broadway, where it won a Tony Award for best musical and will end its 6-year-plus run in September.

It's fair to say the O'Neill's National Music Theater Conference is having a banner year.

Kay Ryan , 63, poet. The current U.S. poet laureate, Ryan has published 16 books of poetry.

Mary Birdsong, Candy Buckley, Jeffrey Carlson and Christopher J. Hanke are among the cast of the developmental staging of "Tales of the City" at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in July.

Tony Award winner Dick Latessa, Lynn Cohen, Jeffrey Carlson, Mary Birdsong and Johanna Day have been cast in the O'Neill Theater's Musical Theater and Playwrights Conference projects.

Calarco will stage the reading of "Picnic at Hanging Rock," with book, lyrics, and music by Daniel Zaitchik A Moore will direct "Tales of the City," an adaptation of Armistead Maupin' s novel about San Francisco life in the 1970's by Jeff Whitty , book-writer for "Avenue Q," and Jason Sellards and John Garden , of the band Scissor Sisters .A A The ...