Michael McDonaghFilmCA, You'd think you were living on another planet, or in at the very least an alternate reality when you leave your house after watching the news. Is everyone out to get you, and is the world really falling apart at ...
This breakneck-paced farce will make you laugh even as it leaves you wondering about the justice system it lampoons.
Suzanne WeissTheaterCA, Full disclosure: I don’t much like farce. Slapstick and pratfalls and opening and slamming doors somehow never manage to tickle my funny bone. That said, I am forced to tell you that I could not stop laughing during Berkeley Rep’s ...
An ensemble of islanders sing and dance up a storm in this revival of a nearly forgotten Broadway hit.
Suzanne WeissTheaterCA, Be careful what you wish for. That’s the painful lesson learned by the Little Mermaid, who famously traded her fins for legs and a faithless boyfriend. It’s learned again by Ti Moune (Salisha Thomas), the plucky but doomed heroine of ...
These two vocal dynamos thrilled the audience at the new Weill Hall in a program of art songs and Puccini duets.
Suzanne WeissMusicCA, Opera fans, fear not. The future is here. If the recent recital by Leah Crocetto and David Lomelí is any indication, there should be no shortage of Mimis or Rodolfos, Butterflies or Pinkertons, once Domingo and Netrebko, Fleming ...
This month-long series of events highlights African American dance and culture.
Joanna G. HarrisDanceCA, For its 10th anniversary season, the Black Choreographers Festival has extended into new and "other" dimensions. Under the leadership of Kendra Kimbrough Barnes and Laura Ellis, this performance included a dramatic work by Joanna Haigood, a ballet-jazz dance by Gregory ...
Programs 2 and 3 provided audiences a broad sampling of great and lesser works by dancemakers past and present.
DanceCA, Choreographers past and present were on display in two recent programs from San Francisco Ballet, and their defining styles (or lack thereof) gave audiences a broad canvas of talent and themes to contemplate. Program 2 (seen Feb. 27) opened ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterCA, “Napoli!,” a robust entertaining World War II comedy/drama by the great Italian playwright Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984), revolves around the boisterous, amusing Neapolitan Jovine family, who turns to selling black-market goods to friends and ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureCA, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) has a unique place in American art, not simply because she was an early female artist, or because of the length of her career, but because she painted with an individual aesthetic quality. Bright colors, detailed oversized ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterCA, “Gidion’s Knot,” Johnna Adams’ astonishing two-character play, rivets the audience as it explores vital societal issues — children’s free expression and its limits, cyber-bullying and parental versus society’s rights. As you enter the theatre, you find yourself in a ...
A rollicking comedy-of-no-manners exposes the underside of a most dysfunctional household.
Suzanne WeissTheaterCA, Move over George Bernard Shaw! There’s a new kind of war between the sexes being waged in the weird world of performer/singer/songwriter/playwright Taylor Mac (“The Lily’s Revenge”). And not just the same old two sexes that Noah ushered onto his ...
