Taylor Mac and 'On the Floor' Headline SF Stages as GMA Stars Honored

Stage premieres celebrating musical history and intergenerational dance joined national broadcasting honors this week as playwright and vocalist Taylor Mac returned to San Francisco's Curran Theatre to launch a two-volume queer songbook, interdisciplinary creators Maria Silk and Théophylle Dcx brought their Hi-NRG performance On the Floor to The Joe Goode Annex, and television co-anchors Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos received stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Taylor Mac Performs 'Tender Heart Revolution' and Launches 50-Song Compendium at Curran Theatre

According to 48 Hills, Stockton native and MacArthur Fellowship, International Ibsen Award, Kennedy Prize, Guggenheim, and two-time Obie recipient Taylor Mac returned to the Curran Theatre in San Francisco on Friday, November 6, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. for the concert Tender Heart Revolution. Following an October 30 Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg tribute at Stanford Live Arts, the Curran Theatre performance celebrated the publication of Mac's first book, Bark of Millions: Queer Songs for the Living Library of the Deviant Theme, featuring lyrics and essays by Mac and music composed by Matt Ray.

Structured as a two-volume compendium—one volume containing sheet music and the other presenting lyrics and essays—Bark of Millions features 50 songs inspired by 50 queer figures from world history, conceived after Mac attended World Pride in 2019 and staged the rock opera at Cal Performances in 2024. The concert also revisited two selections from A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, the Pulitzer Prize finalist presented across four performances at the Curran Theatre in 2017 after Mac first visited San Francisco in 1983. Over a career spanning 30 full-length works, Mac also staged the five-hour play The Lily's Revenge (with 36 cast members) and Hir at San Francisco's Magic Theatre.

'On the Floor' Explores San Francisco Nightlife Lineage at The Joe Goode Annex

In the Mission District, 48 Hills reported that San Francisco performer Maria Silk and Marseille-born interdisciplinary artist Théophylle Dcx staged the latest evolution of their pas de deux On the Floor on Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7, 2026, at The Joe Goode Annex, nearly a year after its CounterPulse debut. Developed through four months of movement improvisation and research into the archives of The Stud, The I-Beam, Trocadero Transfer, and 1980s Hi-NRG pioneers Patrick Cowley and Sylvester, the work features lighting design by GG Torres and a 30-minute score by composer Izaak Schlossman of the San Francisco dark-wave duo Loveshadow.

To deepen the second iteration's engagement with 1980s nightlife and the history of the AIDS epidemic, Silk and Dcx held an archival vinyl listening session at Dark Entries on Larkin Street with nightlife veterans Steve Fabus, Brian Freeman, and Greg Cruikshank—who shared memories of The Angels of Light and Club 181—and visited pioneering 1980s DJ Page Hodel (who continues to spin at Oakland's White Horse Inn) in Sonoma County before refining the score with Schlossman.

Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos Receive Stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame

In entertainment and broadcasting news reported by ABC7 News, Good Morning America co-anchors Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos were honored with a double star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, November 5, 2026, livestreamed at 11:30 a.m. PT. Located at 6290 Hollywood Boulevard near the historic El Capitan Theatre, the tribute recognized Roberts and Stephanopoulos, who have co-anchored the morning broadcast since 2009. Emceed by fellow Good Morning America co-anchor Michael Strahan and organized by Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez on behalf of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the ceremony featured guest speakers Michael J. Fox, actress Niecy Nash-Betts (promoting Season 2 of Hulu's All's Fair), and Disney Entertainment Television chairman Debra OConnell.