Finding Light within Darkness

“Chiaroscuro” is the name for pin-hole cameras and the dramatic black and white underpainting of Rembrandt’s oils. Italian for “light-dark,” it was also an apt name for a program held Saturday, Oct. 28 at the Piedmont Center for the Arts, an evening of works that cast light into the darkest parts of human nature. The  Circadian String Quartet teamed up with music historian Nicolas Hohmann to deliver three quartets woven together with storytelling and poetry. They performed...

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On the comforts of furry rabbits: Berkeley Rep’s new play

A man leaps into center stage. He’s dressed in a bunny suit, with a large cardboard mask with long droopy ears, whiskers and buckteeth. He postures and threatens an invisible person placed somewhere out in the audience: The rabbit will haunt them, lurking in the shadows, for ever. So begins Berkeley Rep’s new play by Daniel Handler, more often known by his pen name Lemony Snicket, the author of the best selling children’s books, A Series of Unfortunate...

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