Virtuoso pianist Hiromi returns to the Miner stage for four exclusive nights with projects ranging from solo to trio. She kicks off her residency with a duo evening with Japanese tap dance master Kazunori Kumagai, revisiting their ongoing collaboration that dates back to their...
Japanese-born pianist Hiromi reunites with her power-packed Trio Project, featuring drummer Simon Phillips and electric bassist James Genus, who picks up the mantle from the late Anthony Jackson. From 2011 to 2016, this band released four albums that stretched musical...
Modern jazz giants Kurt Elling and The Yellowjackets make their joint debut on the Miner Auditorium stage in tribute to the fusion of Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter's Weather Report. The 17-time GRAMMY Award nominee and two-time GRAMMY winner Kurt Elling soars into the universe...
To celebrate Thelonious Monk's birthday, Marcus Shelby and his New Orchestra honor Monk's large ensemble work with special guests including pianist Cyrus Chestnut, saxophonist Sarah Hanahan, and vibraphonist Warren Wolf. Bassist, composer, arranger, and bandleader Marcus Shelby...
Vocalist, composer, actor, and playwright Somi Kakoma is a sublimely gifted artist.
Co-founder and producing director Susi Damilano is at it again. Her previous comic stagings include Noises Off, Clue, The 39 Steps and the successful predecessor of this show, The Play That Goes Wrong back in 2024.…
Transformative, innovative, and hauntingly memorable. These words encapsulate the reaction to Oakland Theater Project’s production of KING LEAR. The story leaps to life with a flourish of energy and grace.…
What did our critic think of KING LEAR at Z Space?…
LEGALLY BLONDE explodes onto the stage at Berkeley Playhouse with a joie de vivre that lights up the house. The high energy dancing, powerful vocals and the never ending onslaught of jokes keep the audience smiling. …
What did our critic think of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center? Little Shop of Horrors, whose star is a bloodthirsty flora, plants its roots at the New Conservatory for the opening of its 26-27 season and it’s an energetic, darkly comic, gender bending allegory for all that…
From across the pond, acclaimed director Emma Rice’s latest adaptation North by Northwest makes its West Coast debut, turning Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 suspense film on its ear with her whimsical, comic stylings.…
What did our critic think of THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Center Rep?…
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…
Virtuoso pianist Hiromi returns to the Miner stage for four exclusive nights with projects ranging from solo to trio. She kicks off her residency with a duo evening with Japanese tap dance master Kazunori Kumagai, revisiting their ongoing collaboration that dates back to their...
GRAMMY-winning pianist Hiromi Uehara brings explosive virtuosity and thrilling unpredictability to the solo piano format. For the second night of her 2026-27 residency, she performs a solo show full of her inimitable fire and passion.
Saxophone great and NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis and his quartet are joined by fellow NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves for a week devoted to the immortal music of John Coltrane, honoring the centennial of his birth.
Harpist and bandleader Destiny Muhammad conjures the spirits of John and Alice Coltrane with this musical tribute to two giants of jazz, featuring tenor saxophonist James Mahone and pianist Glen Pearson alongside Muhammad's trio.
Los Angeles-based pianist and composer Brian Simpson gained fame for his decade-long tenure with George Duke and 12 releases as a leader that have regularly topped smooth jazz charts since his 1995 debut Closer Still. For this special matinee, co-sponsored by the Smooth Jazz...
Bassist and composer Christian McBride's quintet showcases exciting young players including tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, who has toured with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, guitarist Ely Perlman, Chicago pianist Mike King, and Oakland native drummer...
Bass genius Christian McBride honors his mentor Ray Brown with an all-star trio of Ray Brown Trio alumni, pianist Benny Green and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. McBride is an eight-time GRAMMY Award-winning bandleader who has collaborated with McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Pat...
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