February 15, 2016
World premiere of “Aubergine” at Berkeley Rep
Berkeley Rep serves up a play about food and death
Food. I like...
February 2016
February 13, 2016
The Lamplighters present “Ruddygore”
Pink cheeked and diabolical
Ruddygore; or, The Witch’s Curse, premiered in London in 1887, and was the 10th of the 14 comic operas written by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan during their long collaboration. It was not an instant hit,...
February 5, 2016
“Ondine” at The Cutting Ball Theater
All at sea ...
Katharine Sherman’s retelling of the story of Ondine opened this past week at The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco. The play is part of this black box theater’s well-conceived...
February 4, 2016
The Berkeley Symphony with Tito and Tao
A Polish powerhouse and a chiseled beauty…
An evening of surprises lay in store for Berkeley Symphony fans last Thursday, Feb. 4 at Zellerbach Hall. The first was Monday’s announcement that Joana Carneiro, their dynamic conductor, was too sick to fly in from Lisbon for the week of rehearsals and to lead them in a concert that she had titled “Majestic.”
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