January 2015 – Repeat Performances

January 31, 2015

“The Lariat” at Thick House

Standing in the blood of history A curious but effective work by Lisa Scola Prosek caused a stir at San Francisco’s Thick House Theater last Saturday, Jan. 31, where her new historical opera was greeted by protesters. ...

Categories: opera

January 27, 2015

SF Ballet’s startling Program 1 opens the season

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Categories: dance

January 26, 2015

SF Playhouse reunites a family

A unexpected family reunites at SF Playhouse Julie Hebert’s Tree, now at San Francisco Playhouse, plays out in the present, but the past seeps...

Categories: theater

Berkeley Rep examines a troubled sport

Berkeley Rep collides with football The subtitle of the sizzling, eye-opening docudrama, X’s and O’s, now at...

Categories: theater

January 24, 2015

A choreography class with Amy Seiwert

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Categories: dance

January 23, 2015

Oakland Symphony pulls off two tough works

Ambitious program at the Paramount Two difficult and seldom-performed works made for an exciting program at Oakland’s Paramount Theater last Friday, Jan. 23, where Michael Morgan led the Oakland East Bay Symphony in George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F Major and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. These two works are so different that it would be surprising to find any points of parallel, but the two worked marvelously...

Categories: music