If I’m remembering the family lore correctly, my parents brought three-year-old me to a screening of “Love Story” in 1970,…
TV has rarely been more central to our lives than it was in 2020, when it suddenly became a lifeline…
There are talented investigative journalists. There are outspoken activists, and there are those rare, self-sacrificing dissidents. Sometimes, there are those…
Taking to the open road—and all that implies—is an idea deeply rooted in the American psyche. The beckoning freedom of…
It’s December and while Broadway is shut down, as are most regional and community theaters, there is no shortage of…
The Philadelphia Orchestra musicians are together again on the Verizon Hall stage in Philadelphia, in masks or positioned behind Plexiglas…
Considered as one continuous, contiguous work, August Wilson’s “The Pittsburgh Cycle” (which spawned “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”) constitutes a survival…
Diablo Ballet Artistic Director Lauren Jonas commissioned Julia Adam to locate her “Nutcracker Suite” in a hotel suite—San Francisco’s Hotel…
Film festivals in the time of Corona Virus are varied and limited. Some festivals chose to cancel altogether for this…
Musical transcriptions have been around for millenia, even before the medieval, baroque, classical, romantic, modernist and postmodernist periods of the…
Two people away from home allow flirtation to lead to a fling. What should be a one-night stand instead stands…
Berkeley’s own creative solo-performer, Josh Kornbluth, has a new and fascinating story to tell, live via Zoom. This engaging and…
“Move,” a new, five-part documentary on Netflix which began streaming on October 23, offers portraits of a half-dozen working dance…