John Malkovich Joins the San Francisco Symphony for Aleksey Igudesman's The Music Critic, March 6 at Davies Symphony Hall

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—On March 6, Emmy Award-winning actor John Malkovich joins the San Francisco Symphony for The Music Critic, written and conceived by violinist Aleksey Igudesman. The show combines performances of classical works with negative reviews written by real critics when the works first premiered. Accompanied onstage by Igudesman, Malkovich takes on the role of a sardonic critic, taking no prisoners as he hilariously critiques Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and more. 

John Malkovich has worked as an actor, director, and producer in theater and film. He has starred in more than 100 films, including The Killing Fields, Places in the Heart, The Ogre, Le Temps Retrouvé, Rounders, Being John Malkovich, Dangerous Liaisons, The Convent, Klimt, In the Line of Fire, Up Among the Clouds, and The Sheltering Sky. Films he has produced include The Accidental Tourist, Ghost World, Juno, Art School Confidential, Demolition, How to Draw a Bunny, Which Way Home, and The Dancer Upstairs, which he also directed. As a theater actor, he recently starred in a production of In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields, and has also performed in Burn This on Broadway and the West End, The Libertine at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre where he was an original member of the ensemble, Bitter Wheat, The Glass Menagerie, Of Mice and Men, Death of a Salesman, and True West. He has also directed productions of Don DeLillo’s Libra, The Good Canary (staged in Paris, Mexico City, and London), Hysteria (staged in Chicago, Paris, and Barcelona), and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt at the Dailies Theatre in Riga, Latvia. 

In addition to The Music Critic, Malkovich has worked on several classical music collaborations, including The Infernal Comedy, The Giacomo Variations, Just Call Me God, The Report on the Blind, A Rotating Drummer Inside a Box, and The Infamous Ramirez Hoffman. He also worked for many years as a fashion designer, doing 24 collections for Uncle Kimono and Techno Bohemian.

Tickets for John Malkovich in Aleksey Igudesman’s The Music Critic start at $39 and are on sale now at sfsymphony.org.

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