Longtime friends Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot perform a program of works for violin by composers with California connections. Pouliot has been called immaculate, refined and impassioned by ArtsAtlanta, while Porter has been noted by the Los Angeles Times as lovingly lyrical...
San Francisco's Kronos Quartet has reimagined the string quartet experience for over 50 years, giving thousands of concerts and releasing more than 70 recordings while winning three Grammy Awards and the Polar Music Prize. In the second half of this concert, they reunite with...
Jazz guitarist Julian Lage signed with Blue Note Records in 2021, a milestone in a career that began with the documentary Jules at Eight and led to a performance at the Grammy Awards at age 12. For his latest album, Scenes From Above, Lage assembled a quartet with bassist Jorge...
What did our critic think of AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre?…
Stories of romantic love are delivered by a variety of interdisciplinary artists in the second Bay Area incarnation of Crushing, and it’s a winner for the art of spoken word. The featured writers span genders, ages and viewpoints and you never know what’s coming next.…
A love of food sustains houseworker Gladys over a forty-year arc that coincides with the social, economic and political changes wrought by the Cuban revolution of 1959 in Eduardo Machado’s The Cook, opening Berkeley Rep’s 59th season. In Tanya Orellana’s superbly appointed and functional kit…
Review of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Broadway San Jose, where dazzling stagecraft, spectacular choreography and standout performances make the new touring production a theatrical feast.…
VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE is a delightful romp with equal measures of nostalgia and hope for the future. With rapid-fire dialogue and pitch-perfect timing, the cast bring the script by Christopher Durang to life. …
Marin Theatre opens its 60th season with a bang – a sobering dark comedy from director, writer and former California Shakespeare Theatre Associate Artistic Director Sean Daniels. Chronicling the dark ride of self-delusion into alcoholism, Daniels’ semiautobiographical story is beautifully exec…
Marin Theatre opens its 60th season with a bang – a sobering dark comedy from director, writer and former California Shakespeare Theatre Associate Artistic Director Sean Daniels. Chronicling the dark ride of self-delusion into alcoholism, Daniels’ semiautobiographical story is beautifully execut…
RUMORS at Woodminster Summer Musicals is full of laughs and gaffs, and is a jolly good time. Set in a posh New York townhouse, RUMORS is Neil Simon’s only full length farce. From half truths to utter nonsense and mistaken identities to outright charades, this production will ensnare you in a strea…
Pickleball at Hillbarn Theatre, written by Jeff Daniels, takes one of the country’s fastest-growing sports and serves it up as an unabashedly silly comedy filled with eccentric players, romantic entanglements, and plenty of physical humor. …
Altarena Playhouse brings Noël Coward’s FALLEN ANGELS to life with wit and charm. When the sardonic writing of a genius playwright meets the witty interpretation of a theater, it produces a night full of laughs and insights. …
Step into the sound world of 18th-century Italy and France with music performed on period instruments, for an authentic experience, just like the first audiences would have heard it. “Baroque Garlands” opens with George Frideric Handel’s “Dixit Dominus,” written when the...
Kelli O’Hara is one of the most gloriously gifted and versatile vocal and dramatic talents of any era, with a Tony award for her star turn in the New York revival of The King and I , as well as Grammy, Emmy, and Olivier nominations for her wide-ranging work including her role as...
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick Curran Theatre (10/11-10/11) |
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“Exile | Banishment | Home” Old First Concerts (11/15-11/15) |
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The Fall Show Shotgun Players Ashby Stage (9/26-10/25) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (7/07-7/18) |
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Private Lives by Noel Coward Santa Cruz Shakespeare (9/04-10/04) |
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Dear San Francisco Club Fugazi (9/16-3/31) |
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Once Upon A Mattress Saratoga Civic Theater (9/26-10/17) |
