The season continues! This fall is important for the performing arts, cultural arts, and the design arts. Ensuring the future of our city’s wide-reaching cultural, educational, and training programs, Haute Living San Francisco is a proud media partner for the highly anticipated San Francisco Symphony Opening Gala, and the Fall Show—among other major events— bringing arts and entertainment into the spotlight.
CURRENT
Through Oct. 6
American Conservatory Theater | Private Lives
The 2024-25 season opens with a reimagined production of Noel Coward’s hysterical classic tale of the tempestuous dance that is marriage. Directed by Bay Area favorite KJ Sanchez. Toni Rembe Theater, 415 Geary St. act-sf.org
Through Oct. 13
BroadwaySF | Wicked
(photo- Joan Marcus 2024)
The fourth-longest running show in Broadway history has been seen by over 67 million people and won 100+ awards. The untold true story of the Witches of Oz is now back in San Francisco for a limited seven-week run. Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market St. broadwaysf.com
Through Oct. 20
de Young | American Beauty: The Osher Collection of American Art
Several significant “firsts”: A large-scale oil by Winslow Homer (The Angler, ca. 1874), a genre picture by William Merritt Chase (Spanish Bric-à-Brac Shop, 1883), a George Bellows landscape (In Virginia, 1908), Georgia O’Keeffe images of the Southwest (Front of Ranchos Church, 1930 and The Patio, 1940), plus 13 artists new entering the collection. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., Golden Gate Park. famsf.org
Through Jan. 6, 2025
Asian Art Museum | Hallyu! The Korean Wave
Korean dramas, music, film, TV, fashion, and beauty, from Netflix hits like “Squid Game” and Academy Award-winning “Parasite” to chart-topping K-pop idols and influential designers. Discover how South Korea reinvented itself as a 21st-century pop culture phenomenon. Created by the V&A and touring the world. 200 Larkin St. asianart.org
Through Jan. 12, 2025
de Young | Robert Bechtel: Prints and Drawings
Bay Area artist Robert Bechtle (1932–2020) captured local life in mesmerizing detail. This exhibition celebrates Bechtle’s legacy and his close relationship with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., Golden Gate Park. famsf.org
OCTOBER
Oct. 3 – 13
Mill Valley Film Festival
Haute Living San Francisco is a proud media sponsor of MVFF. Founded in 1977, now running for 11 days, this internationally acclaimed cinema event presents a broad variety of new films in seven venues from 200 filmmakers representing 50 countries in an engaged, community-wide setting. This year’s tribute honors actor Jude Law. mvff.com
Oct. 5 – Jan. 26, 2025
Legion of Honor | Mary Cassatt at Work
The only American to join the French Impressionists, Cassatt emerged as a key member of the movement. Alongside scenes of women at the opera, visiting friends, and taking tea, she produced images of “women’s work,” suggesting parallels between the work of art making and caregiving. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue. famsf.org
Oct. 6
Green Music Center | Michael Feinstein, “Because of You”
Dynamic interpretations and a close friendship create a heartfelt tribute to the legendary Tony Bennett, featuring favorite hit songs with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. Weill Hall, Sonoma State University,1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park.. gmc.sonoma.edu
Oct. 7 – 14
Fleet Week
U.S. Navy Blue Angels (Photo- Senior Airman Alexander Cook)
Land, sea, and air. U.S. Navy Blue Angels headline the dramatic air show over San Francisco Bay in a week filled with concerts and visiting ships plus a parade of ships along the waterfront, and more events. fleetweeksf.org
Oct. 12
SFJAZZ | Lila Downs’ Día de los Muertos
The GRAMMY-award winning vocalist celebrates Mexico’s Day of the Dead and her latest album, La Sánchez, with folklórico dancing, a mariachi band, inspired visual projections and more. Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakland. sfjazz.org
Oct. 12 – Feb. 9, 2025
de Young | Tamara de Lempicka
Defining Art Deco with paintings capturing the glamorous vitality of postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood, the first major museum retrospective of Lempicka in the U.S. explores her distinctive style and unconventional life through more than 100 artworks. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., Golden Gate Park. famsf.org
Oct. 13
156th Italian Heritage Festival & Parade
Since 1869, North Beach has drawn thousands to the popular event, a fun-filled day celebrating the wonderful Italian-American community. Featuring sidewalk art, live music, performances, parade floats, pizza, and lots more. sfitalianheritage.org
Oct. 16
42nd San Francisco Fall Show | Opening Night Gala
Haute Living San Francisco is pleased to be a media partner (show dates Oct. 17 – 20), a celebration of the timeless, elegant appeal of black and white in decorative arts, fashion, photography, fine art, and beyond. This is the West Coast’s longest running art show. Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd. sffallshow.org
Oct. 19 – 20
52nd Annual Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival
On historic Main Street between Mill and Spruce streets in the “World Pumpkin Capital” at 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., free. Kicks off Oct. 14 with the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. (Can anyone beat last year’s record 2,759 pounds?) pumpkinfest.miramarevents.com
Oct. 19 – Nov. 5
San Francisco Opera | Tristan and Isolde
Richard Wagner’s opera is a unique expression of love at the extremes of human possibility. Music Director Eun Sun Kim brings back this transcendent score for the first time in 18 years. War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave. sfopera.com
Oct. 19 – Jan. 12, 2025
de Young | Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries
Tapestry detail (Courtesy Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte)
Seven huge newly preserved tapestries celebrate the decisive Battle of Pavia in 1525. On loan from Italy’s Capodimonte Museum in Naples, this marks the first U.S. tour, with San Francisco the only West Coast stop. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., Golden Gate Park. famsf.org
Oct. 25 & 26
San Francisco Symphony | Rhapsody in Blue
Conductor Thomas Wilkins celebrates the verve and vigor of mid-20th-century American music featuring George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and music from Porgy and Bess plus Leonard Bernstein’s Candide and more. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave. sfsymphony.org
Oct. 31
San Francisco Symphony | Psycho
Psycho is filled with the infamous twists and turns that Sir Alfred Hitchcock does best. Bernard Herrmann’s music slashes with vivid effect as it plunges into the darkest corners of the human psyche. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave. sfsymphony.org
Oct. 31
SFJAZZ | Halloween Silent Film Classic
The sacred space of Grace Cathedral transforms into a grand movie palace for a special Halloween screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. An original live score is performed on the 7,500 pipe organ by renowned organist and composer Dorothy Papadakos. 8 p.m. 1100 California St. sfjazz.org
Events Calendar: September 2024
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