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Theatre Rhino Presents Free Zoom Reading of Brayden Frascone's FALLING SKIES
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2021
Theatre Rhinoceros will present a free Zoom presentation of FALLING SKIES by Brayden Frascone, featuring Devin Cunningham and Joe Tally on April 8, 2021 at 7pm. One Live Performance Only. On-Demand recording will be available after the live performance.
All 10 Episodes Of Berkeley Rep's Audio Series PLACE/SETTINGS: BERKELEY Are Now Available
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2021
Berkeley Repertory Theatre today announced that all 10 episodes of the audio series titled Place/Settings: Berkeley are now available. Place/Settings: Berkeley premiered on January 12 with each episode released once a week. Now listeners can enjoy the entire series all in one sitting. Each episode runs approximately 10-20 minutes.
Apple And Redford Center Launch Free Filmmaking Challenge For Environmental Justice
by BWW News Desk - March 16, 2021
Today, The Redford Center and Apple announced the launch of the second annual Redford Center Stories Challenge, a youth filmmaking initiative that empowers educators and students as changemakers in the environmental justice movement. As youth worldwide activate intergenerational advocacy for environmental justice, the program aims to amplify the voices of tomorrow's youth leaders and create a learning community at the nexus of transformational storytelling, social justice, and environmental action.
Playful People Productions Unveils Summer Activities
by BWW News Desk - March 16, 2021
As many Bay Area residents look forward to easing Covid restrictions, San Jose's Playful People Productions announces its summer slate of classes, workshops, and activities for all ages, including both online and safety-conscious in-person offerings for small groups.
MarshStream Presents Personal Stories Of Qigong In ALREADY FREE
by BWW News Desk - March 15, 2021
How does one live a truly sane, loving, and meaningful life? The Marsh explores this question with the MarshStream offering of Already Free, a captivating film that documents the profound transformation of Dorrie van Roij-Houtappels and Norberto Rodrigues, two Qigong students from Portugal and New Zealand. In this project, viewers will be taken through each individual's discovery of this mind-body-spirit practice that fundamentally altered their lives, as well as those around them.
BWW Review: [HIEROGLYPH] at SF Playhouse
by Steve Murray - March 15, 2021
BWW Review: [HIEROGLYPH] at SF Playhouse
Lea DeLaria, Lili Argüello, Tanika Baptiste & More Announced for The Rhino's PANDEMIC PERFORMANCES Fundraiser
by BWW News Desk - March 15, 2021
The Rhino will present an entertaining evening of short video performances celebrating the creative output of Bay Area’s LGBTQ performers during the pandemic. A benefit event for Theatre Rhinoceros. Hosted by Jesús U. Bettawork and Kim Larsen.
Theatre Rhinoceros Presents THE FARM
by BWW News Desk - March 15, 2021
Theatre Rhinoceros presents a free Zoom/Facebook Live presentation, The Farm, conceived and performed by John Fisher, on Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 8pm.
BWW Review: San Francisco Opera Presents Virtual DIE WALKUERE
by Maria Nockin - March 14, 2021
On the weekend of  March 13 and 14, San Francisco Opera streamed its 2018 production of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre to opera lovers around the world. Director Francesca Zambello moved the story to a modern time in which Wotan was a captain of industry and Hunding was a hunter with a house full of trophies, one of which was his fair-tressed wife.
Photo Flash: San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Present [hieroglyph]
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2021
[hieroglyph] traverses the intersection of environmental racism, sexual violence, and displacement, examining the psychological effects of a state-sanctioned man-made disaster on the most vulnerable members of the Katrina diaspora. This work is part of award-winning playwright Dickerson-Despenza’s planned 10-play Katrina Cycle of plays focused on the effects of Hurricane Katrina in and beyond New Orleans.
Schedule Updates Announced for San Francisco Opera's RING FESTIVAL
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2021
San Francisco Opera's online Ring Festival continues throughout March with free streaming of Richard Wagner's four-part The Ring of the Nibelung and live ticketed events online. The Ring Festival schedule featuring an array of interviews, panel discussions and lectures with artists and scholars has been updated, including the addition of two new free events.
Festival Re-Files Against State of California As City of San Francisco Stonewalls In First Amendment Case
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2021
Reluctantly, the San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) this week brought the State of California (CAL) back into court as part of its ongoing First and Fourteenth Amendment lawsuit against the City & County of San Francisco (CCSF). The latest filing documents are AT THIS LINK.
Opera San José Shares LOVE & SECRETS Trilogy Of Virtual Short Operas
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2021
Romance so often conjures images of affectionate gestures grand and small: flowers, chocolates, initials carved in bark. Opera San José's latest digital offering, Love & Secrets: A Domestic Trilogy, explores what happens below the surface, with three tales of passion and yearning, as couples contend with the tumult, joys, and heartache of love.
San Francisco Opera's New Digital Release 'In Song: J'Nai Bridges' Now Available
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2021
In Song is a series of intimate video portraits featuring remarkable San Francisco Opera artists who draw us into their distinctive spheres through stories and song—from classical to bluegrass to spirituals. In each episode, a singer invites us to see who they are in the world, their cultural backgrounds and how they express themselves through deep connections to song.
The Marsh Shares Compelling Stories in SOLO ARTS HEAL Series
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2021
The Marsh presents an inspiring lineup of individuals sharing deeply personal journeys in the MarshStream Solo Arts Heal series, discussing emotionally charged topics that range from facing dementia to sexual violence, jumping into climate change activism to dating someone with a psychiatric disorder, and more.
San Francisco Opera Develops Mask Allowing Performers to Safely Sing Together
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2021
The San Francisco Opera costume department has teamed up with doctors from UCSF to create a mask that will allow the company's singers to safely rehearse together.
Frameline Announces 2020 Completion Fund Recipients
by BWW News Desk - March 10, 2021
Today, Frameline—the world's longest-running and largest showcase of queer cinema—announced the recipients of the 2020 Frameline Completion Fund, which provides much-needed grants to emerging and established filmmakers to complete projects that represent and reflect LGBTQ+ life in all its complexity and richness.
Hershey Felder of HERSHEY FELDER, PUCCINI at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley & Opera San Jose Creates a Moving Portrait of the Beloved Composer
by Jim Munson - March 10, 2021
Virtuoso pianist, actor and writer Hershey Felder certainly knows how to handle any curveballs life throws him. Stuck in Florence, Italy (poor guy!) for the duration of Covid, he is using his Tuscan surroundings to enrich his new show about native son Giacomo Puccini. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and Opera San José are coming together to offer viewers the world premiere livestream of Hershey Felder, PUCCINI, a new work by and starring Felder, along with guest stars from the opera world - baritone Nathan Gunn, sopranos Gianna Corbisiero and Ekaterina Siurina, and tenor Charles Castronovo. Presented by Hershey Felder Presents Live from Florence, Hershey Felder, PUCCINI tells the story of a young musician captivated by the world of opera, particularly by Puccini’s eternally popular works La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly. Sumptuously filmed and performed on location in Lucca, Italy in the very home where Giacomo Puccini was born, Hershey Felder, PUCCINI combines theatre, music and film to create a uniquely moving experience for audiences. The show will be streamed live at 5pm PST on Sunday, March 14, 2021 (with streaming on-demand access through March 21). To buy tickets or find more information, visit TheatreWorks.org or Operasj.org. Ticket sales directly benefit the arts organization through which they are purchased. BroadwayWorld spoke with Felder earlier this week from his home in Florence while he was in the midst of making final tweaks to the show. He is super fascinating and just plain fun to talk to. His knowledge of, and love for, the arts runs so deep that that I always come away from any conversation with him having learned something, having been entertained and having been moved. Much like the experience of seeing one of his shows, in fact. Underscoring everything is his irrepressible sense of humor and musical way with words.
BWW Review: INTERLUDE at New Conservatory Theatre Center
by Steve Murray - March 09, 2021
It's the dark ugly days of August 2020 and COVID isolation and the specter of a 2nd Trump election loom large over writer Jesse Howard who's hunkered down at his childhood home in Manhattan, Kansas with his conservative Christian parents. What transpires in this beautifully written and spoken audio drama is a rumination on where he's bound existentially and practically.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale Appoints Tarik O'Regan First Composer-in-Residence
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2021
Uniquely focused on both the baroque and the brand new, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO) announces the appointment of TARIK O'REGAN as the 40-year old organization's first-ever Composer-in-Residence. 
Balanchine's JEWELS Sparkles On Screen At San Francisco Ballet Next Month
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2021
San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) streams George Balanchine's Jewels on Program 04, April 1–21, of the 2021 Digital Season, featuring a newly-captured Emeralds to accompany archival recordings of Rubies and Diamonds.
Chanticleers Theatre Presents ALMOST, MAINE
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2021
Chanticleers Theatre in Castro Valley is opening their 2021 Season with this hysterical comedy! Welcome to Almost, Maine, a town that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States—it’s almost in Canada. And it almost doesn’t exist. Because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it’s just…Almost.
Virtual Celebration of the 300th Anniversary of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos Announced
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2021
The Brandenburg 300 Project announces a virtual celebration of the 300th Anniversary of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and the music's placement on The Golden Record. The free, virtual broadcast is Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 2:00pm PST and 7:00pm PST. Bach wrote The Brandenburg Concertos for Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schweft and dedicated it to him on March 24, 1721.
BWW Review: PROGRAM 03 at San Francisco Ballet Delivers Terrific Performances in Some Striking Ballets
by Jim Munson - March 09, 2021
There is a lot to love in San Francisco Ballet’s recently unveiled Program 03 of mixed repertoire, even if it takes a bit of a dip in the middle. The program gets off to a smashing start with Alexei Ratmansky’s Symphony #9, which is part of his justly celebrated Shostakovich Trilogy. Next up is Danielle Rowe's world premiere dance film 'Wooden Dimes' set in the world of 1920's vaudeville. The program comes to a rousing close with Yuri Possokhov's 'Swimmer' an imaginative take on the John Cheever short story. Program 03 is available to stream through March 24th.
New Block Of Tickets Now Available For IMMERSIVE VAN GOGH
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2021
Due to unprecedented advance ticket sales, Lighthouse Immersive announced today that Immersive Van Gogh—the all-new visually-striking exhibition that invites audiences to step inside post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh's most incredible works of art—has released a new block of timed-entry tickets, which includes extended hours and prime Saturday time slots.

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