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Theater Review: GODDESS (World Premiere Musical at Berkeley Rep)
ONE TOUCH OF GODDESS Goddess, the exciting new musical at Berkeley Rep with its sights set for Broadway, re-imagines the African myth of Marimba: the goddess of music. In order to experience real love, the goddess has come down from the heavens as Nadira (Amber Iman, who raises the roof with every note) to live…
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Music Reviews: PINK MARTINI / BERNADETTE PETERS (San Francisco Symphony)
SUMMER AT THE SYMPHONY 2 In their 25+ years as a fourteen member full “little orchestra,” Pink Martini has established a reputation for clever, daring, sophisticated and delightful music. The San Francisco Symphony provided an excellent opportunity for Pink Martini to perk up a news-weary public with some much needed color and sunshine. Did they…
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Concert Reviews: GET HAPPY: A JUDY GARLAND CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION / FOURTH WITH FIREWORKS (SF Symphony)
SF Symphony, Summer 2022 The San Francisco Symphony is no doubt ecstatic to welcome people back to live performances this summer in all of their venues. Davies Symphony Hall, Stern Grove and The Shoreline Amphitheatre all have full schedules of terrific performers to treat everyone this summer. There is definitely something for every age and…
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Theater Review: THE EMPIRE STRIPS BACK (Great Star Theater)
MAY THE TORSO BE WITH YOU Forget about Broadway or the latest Marvel Comic movie. The fun, hip and cool burlesque Star Wars parody — which isn’t just for fans of the franchise — is the show to see this summer live onstage in San Francisco. No stranger to SF, Burlesque started in the nineteenth…
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Theater Review: FOLLIES (SF Playhouse)
FANTASTIC FOLLIES AT SF PLAYHOUSE After over 2 years of all of us being confined at home watching endless hours of shows on Netflix sitting in our sweatpants, we’re all chomping at the bit to get dressed up and see live theater. Yet because of COVID, San Francisco’s first onstage adaptation of the musical Follies had a…
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Music Recommendation: 32nd SAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST
An Electrifying Artist Lineup For One of the Summer’s Major SF Bay Area Music Festivals Friday, August 12 – Sunday, August 14, 2022 Plaza de César Chavez Park, Downtown San Jose, Calif. Tickets On Sale Now (Tickets: $30 – $170/Day; $75 – $495/3-Day Passes; $10/Children 5-12) Silicon Valley’s premier annual music event,  San Jose Jazz Summer…
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Theater Opening: NAN AND THE LOWER BODY (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Lucie Stern Theatre)
THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF Nan and the Lower Body Janis Dardaris and Elissa Beth Stebbins in the staged reading of NAN AND THE LOWER BODY in the 2019 TheatreWorks New Works Festival TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present the World Premiere of Jessica Dickey’s Nan and the Lower Body, an audience favorite at TheatreWorks’…
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Film Festival Review: FRAMELINE46: THE COAST IS QUEER (Castro Theatre et al. in San Francisco)
After being “virtual” online for the past two years, The Frameline Film Festival is finally back in theaters here in San Francisco. The Castro Theater was glad to welcome both the festival and people into the 100-year-old historical landmark. The Roxie and Kabuki Theaters as well as SFMOMA were also used as venues for the…
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Music: EUN SUN KIM CONDUCTS VERDI (San Francisco Opera, in-person and livestream)
Program Features Scenes from Giuseppe Verdi Masterpieces Luisa Miller, Il Trovatore and Don Carlo Eun Sun Kim (Photo: Kim Tae-hwan) Nicole Car (Photo: Yan Bleney) Arturo Chacón-Cruz (Photo: Tim Chin) Etienne Dupuis (Photo: Dario Acosta); Soloman Howard (Photo: Jon Adjahoe) San Francisco Opera presents Eun Sun Kim Conducts Verdi, a one-night-only concert honoring the work of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi on Thursday,…
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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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Bay Area Theater: AURORA THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES 2022/2023 SEASON
Berkeley’s acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company (Artistic Director Josh Costello) announced today the plays that will comprise the theatre’s 31st season. All shows will be presented live and in-person in Aurora’s theatre in Berkeley. Aurora’s regular 2022/2023 season will run November 2022 through July 2023. In chronological order, show lineup – across seasons – is as…
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Recommended Concert: MITSUKO UCHIDA WITH THE MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (Cal Performances at Zellerbach Hall)
CAL PERFORMANCES AT UC BERKELEY PRESENTSMITSUKO UCHIDA WITH THEMAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRASUNDAY, MARCH 27 AT 3PMIN ZELLERBACH HALL Following her all-Schubert recital for last season’s Cal Performances at Home online streaming series Ms. Uchida comes to Zellerbach Hall for an in-person concert with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra that draws a line from Henry Purcell’s uniquely English…
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Theater Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (Curran Theatre in San Francisco)
A MAGICAL TREAT Going into San Francisco’s famed, 100-year-old Curran Theater for the opening night of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, theatergoers must have felt like Harry did when he stepped on board the Hogwarts Express in 1997, bound for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the…
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Dance: THE VOICE WITHIN — FEATURING SEIBI LEE (Leela Dance Collective in SF, LA & Edmonton)
Leela Dance Collective presents The Voice Within, featuring veteran kathak artist Seibi Lee in an intimate performance exploring the themes of duality and paradox. Lee renders two ancient stories – Houyi and Chang’e, a heart-rending Chinese story about the love between a mortal hero and an immortal beauty, and Yuki no Onna, a Japanese tale evoking the mystery of the…
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Theater Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING (San Francisco Playhouse)
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. Simone Weil One of the best new plays to come down the pike in years, Will Arbery’s considered 150-minute one-act may seem to some a level-headed treatise on what it means to be a conservative in the age of Trump. Yet…
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Theater: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING (SF Playhouse)
The Bay Area Premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery — the winner of the 2020 Obie Award for Playwriting, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Pulitzer Finalist — is a riveting and witty play speaks to the heart of a country at war with itself. Now, this amazing play…
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Opera: THE CENTENNIAL SEASON REVEALED (SF Opera)
The 2022–23 Season FRI, SEP 9, 2022 AT 8PM Don’t miss Opera Ball: The Centennial Celebration, an evening of music and delight that honors San Francisco Opera’s first 100 years and sets the stage for an exciting second century. Please note the Opening Night Concert is sold as part of Opera Ball and is not in any subscription series….
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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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