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Broadway Review: LEOPOLDSTADT (Longacre Theatre)
AN EPIC JOURNEY TO HEAVEN AND HELL It is 1899 in Vienna, Christmas Eve to be exact, and two families, elegant and refined, are gathered together in what might be called joyous solemnity to celebrate the holiday. On Richard Hudson’s luminously dark set, candlelit to perfection by Neil Austin, they are like a painting stirred…
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Theater Review: DANA H. (Berkeley Repertory)
ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE NEW PLAYS OF THE DECADE I’ve been singing the praises of Lucas Hnath‘s Dana H. ever since I first saw it three years ago in Los Angeles. Time has not altered my feelings. If anything, as the Berkeley Rep production proves, its power has not diminished in the least, and…
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Theater Review: OCTET (Berkeley Rep in Berkeley)
WILL WE COME THROUGH THIS TOGETHER? Dave Malloy, the genius (and I don’t use that word loosely) who wrote the music, lyrics, book and vocal arrangements for his chamber musical Octet, which is now enjoying what is hopefully a healthy run at Berkeley Rep, asks more questions than any reasonable person could find answers to,…
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Theater: FRAN LEBOWITZ IN CONVERSATION (Berkeley Rep)
CULTURAL ICON FRAN LEBOWITZ RETURNS TO BERKELEY REP Berkeley Repertory Theatre is proud to announce a special presentation of Fran Lebowitz in Conversation. Following her bingeworthy hit Netflix series Pretend It’s a City, Fran Lebowitz returns for six appearances only at Berkeley Rep where she played to sold-out crowds in the Roda Theatre in 2018. In a…
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Recommended Concert: ECO ENSEMBLE TOSHIO HOSOKAWA PORTRAIT CONCERT (Cal Performances at UC Berkeley)
CAL PERFORMANCES AT UC BERKELEY PRESENTSECO ENSEMBLETOSHIO HOSOKAWA PORTRAIT CONCERTFEATURING STACEY PELINKA, FLUTESSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5 AT 8PMIN HERTZ HALL Cal Performances at UC Berkeley welcomes back the university’s ensemble-in-residence, Eco Ensemble, in a concert showcasing the music of Toshio Hosokawa, one of Japan’s pre-eminent living composers, on Saturday, February 5 at 8pm at Hertz Hall. The…
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Theater: DEAR SAN FRANCISCO: A HIGH-FLYING LOVE STORY (New Members Join The 7 Fingers at Club Fugazi)
DEAR SAN FRANCISCO: A HIGH-FLYING LOVE STORYWELCOMES NEW COMPANY MEMBERS New year, new company members! Starting today, Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story’”the intimate and immersive resident production from The 7 Fingers’”welcomes three new company members to the production. Soaring their way into the production are San Francisco Bay Area natives Dominic Cruz and Maya Kesselman, as well as Shengnan…
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Music Concert Recommendation: GAUTIER CAPUÇON & YUJA WANG (Michael Tilson Thomas & SF Symphony, Jan. 20-29, 2022)
Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) returns to conduct the San Francisco Symphony in two weeks of concerts at Davies Symphony Hall featuring two longtime collaborators. January 20–22 concerts include Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2 performed by cellist Gautier Capuçon and January 27–29 concerts feature pianist Yuja…
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Dance Review: MORE FOREVER (Conrad Tao, piano/composer; Caleb Teicher, choreographer/dancer)
DANCING ON SAND It was clear within minutes, when a piano emerged from the shadows of the blackened Zellerbach Hall stage and pianist Conrad Tao played the first few delicate bars of a haunting melody that More Forever — the collaboration between Tao and choreographer/tap dancer extraordinaire Caleb Teicher — was going to be much more…
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Theater Review: GEORGIANA AND KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY (Marin Theatre Company)
CHRISTMAS AT PEM-BAH-LEY Let me start off by saying that I belong to that camp that would like to see a moratorium on all things Jane Austen and an edict to return to her novels would be the best way to start to do that. I happen to feel that, good intentions towards one side,…
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Opera Review: COSíŒ FAN TUTTE (San Francisco Opera)
A PRODUCTION TO COSí UP TO I am beginning to yearn for a production of Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte which takes place, as originally intended, in its own time. The last three productions I’ve seen took place in a Long Island diner in the 1990s (courtesy Peter Sellars’ highly gestural version) or Coney Island in…
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Theater Review: WINTERTIME (Berkeley Rep)
A SOLITUDE OF ICICLES Where to begin. Wintertime, which brings live theater back to Berkeley Rep, was written by Charles Mee, who has a devoted following among the theatrical cognoscenti, due to his eccentrically witty takes on life, love, and the pursuit of wherever life and love takes the people in his very special and…
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Music Review: MTT: MOZART, TILSON THOMAS & SCHUMANN (Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony)
WELCOME HOME, MAESTRO THOMAS There are concerts and, then, there are concerts. The first of the two programs marking the return of Michael Tilson Thomas, after serious brain surgery, belongs to the latter category. This was an occasion that might even be counted among the more significant events in the history of the San Francisco…
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Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (National Tour)
MY FAILED LADY Let’s make one thing clear. When a national touring company of a Broadway success comes to your city, proclaiming it is a duplicate of the original production, what is meant by “production” is that it is guaranteed to have the same sets and costumes and sound design. It will look great and…
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Theater Review: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (42nd Street Moon)
A LITTLE LITE MUSIC Any theater company that decides to produce the entire body of work created by a single artist, like, say, aiming to produce every play Shakespeare ever wrote, deserves attention for its bravery and intelligence. The 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco’s home for musical theater, has promised to present every musical written…
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Music Review: BRONFMAN PLAYS BEETHOVEN (SF Symphony)
OCTOBER SURPRISE The last of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s four October concerts was, to put it as succinctly as possible, quite wonderful. The draw was Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and the audience, there to hear master pianist Yefim Bronfman, wholeheartedly responded — with rapt silence at first and finally cheers — to Bronfman, whose sonorous and…
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Theater Opening: INDRA’S NET (Meredith Monk World Premiere, Mills College in Oakland)
Indra’s Net Conceived, Directed, and Composed by Meredith Monk Meredith Monk’s newest interdisciplinary, evening-length music theater piece is an experiential performance work affirming the interconnectedness of life. Following On Behalf of Nature (2013), a plea for ecological awareness, and Cellular Songs (2018), which turned attention to the fabric of life itself, Indra’s Net is Monk’s third work in a trilogy dedicated…
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Music Review: SCHUBERT 5 & DESSNER VIOLIN CONCERTO (Pekka Kuusisto, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony)
BRYCE DESSNER AND PEKKA KUUSISTO: AN EXTRAORDINARY TEAM Last night, I had the rare and honored experience of being present at what I think may have been an historic musical event. It was the first United States performance of Bryce Dessner’s Violin Concerto (2021) which was co-commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, and which, under…
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Theater Review: THE CLAIM (Shotgun Players in Berkeley)
THE RETURN OF THE SHOTGUN PLAYERS It is always a pleasure to come across a playwright with a love for (and a gift for) language and, better, an appreciation for the comic possibilities of wordplay. Tim Cowbury is just such a playwright, and his play The Claim, which was a runaway success at the 2019…
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Music Review: EXOTIC BIRDS: DEBUSSY, MESSIAEN AND SAARIAHO (Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony)
EXOTIC BIRDS, 47 SPECIES OF BIRDS, AND DEBUSSY BY LAND AND BY SEA Esa-Pekka Salonen walked slowly to the podium and when he arrived, he stood, frozen, for an extended period of time, as if he were calling upon a moment of silence and so, when the first bars of Claude Debussy’s Prélude í L’Après-midi d’un faune…
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Theater Review: HOME (On Tour at The Broad Stage)
A HOME RUN What do you think of when you think of home? Is it the place where you were born? Is it where you are living now? Is it where you followed your growth by measuring yourself against one of its walls? Is it the home you built? Is it the home you inherited…
Theater Review: I DO! I DO! (Palm Canyon Theatre)
by Stan Jenson | January 18, 2026
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by Jason Mannino | January 16, 2026
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(Coachella Valley), TheaterOff-Broadway Review: THE DISAPPEAR (Minetta Lane Theatre)
by Rob Lester | January 15, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL 2026 (Pegasus Theatre Chicago)
by Mitchell Oldham | January 14, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: LIBRARY LION (Adam Theater)
by Lynne Weiss | January 13, 2026
in Boston, TheaterTHE ROLE OF FAITH-INSPIRED LITERATURE IN CHILDREN’S STORYTELLING
by Susan Hall | January 13, 2026
in Books, ExtrasBroadway Review: BUG (Manhattan Theatre Club)
by Carol Rocamora | January 12, 2026
in New York, TheaterAudition Announcement: BEACHES, A NEW MUSICAL (Are You a Little Cee-Cee?)
by Connor McCormick | January 12, 2026
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