Toba SingerDanceSan Francisco,
The idea was to review SFDanceworks Season 4, but as I left the Cowell Theater that sits on the dock of the San Francisco Bay, a wave of equivocation eclipsed that plan. It was ...
Departing Berkeley Repertory Theatre Artistic Director
Emily S. MendelEtcBerkeley,
Tony Taccone, Berkeley Rep’s acclaimed Artistic Director for the last 21 years, is about to launch the last production of his last season, before turning over the reins to incoming artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer. During ...
Arts & Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA Series on Creativity
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The Theater, Dance and Performance Studies Department at the University of California at Berkeley is hosting “Art & Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA (Berkeley Arts Museum, Pacific Film Archive),” where ...
Q & A with Bill T. Jones, Karen Burthwright and Garrett Coleman
Toba SingerEtcBerkeley,
A century after the first American Revolution gained independence from the English monarchy, a second revolution erupted: this one to end slavery. The Civil War coincided with the emergence of ...
Writer and Performer of Pike Street,
A new play at the Berkeley Rep.
Toba SingerFeaturesBerkeley,
News of Hurricane Sandy’s projected landfall gives New Yorkers little time to prepare, but whatever the mysteries of nature, certain New Yorkers, the poor, and working class, mostly members of oppressed nationalities, mostly the women among them, know one ...
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Gabriel Ledón is Artistic Director of the contemporary dance company Cuarto Fractal, and has also been Executive Director of Brazeros Dance Company in Los Angeles, Calif. Ledón is a trained visual artist as well as a dancer and choreographer. On ...
Renata PoltFeaturesSan Francisco,
It started in 1996 with three silent films in one day; this year, the now almost-venerable festival will present twenty-three programs over five days (one more day than last year), May 30th to June 3rd.
As ...
Paula FarmerFeatures
Long before she became the pop icon and darling of millennials that she is and known as the Notorious RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsberg was quietly creating a legal legacy and effecting change. At 84 she is a living legend as ...
An Indiegogo campaign to produce this backstage drama/comedy
Andrew OsborneFeaturesLos Angeles,
"This is funny as f*ck."
That was the reaction of Lance Guest (star of 1984's "The Last Starfighter") to a recent workshop reading of "Special", an original comedy scheduled for production this coming December at Theatre ...
Paula FarmerFeaturesCA,
When the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) gets underway this year on October 5th, it will mark a bit of a milestone as it will be turning the BIG 4-0. As such, special celebrations are to be expected, not least ...
