Berkeley,

Photo: Cheshire Isaacs.

Q & A w/ Tony Taccone

Etc Berkeley,
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 ...
Photo: Kevin Berne.

Kiss My Aztec!

Theater Berkeley,
There’s nothing better than a bright and boisterous musical show to enhance one's mood — and boy, do we need a mood-changer these days. “Kiss My Aztec!,” with its book co-written by John Leguizamo (“Latin History for Morons”) and ...
Photo: Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

The Good Book

Theater Berkeley,
“The Good Book’s” authors, Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, creators of Berkeley Rep’s 2012 “An Iliad,” take on a colossal subject, one that may not be capable of mastery in one evening of theater. The lengthy, chock-filled production creatively ...
Geoff Sobelle and Sophie Bortolussi. Photo: Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Home

Theater Berkeley,
Berkeley Repertory Theatre Why see a play that has no traditional plot or storyline to speak of, in which the performers are silent, accompanied only by occasional music? If the play is “Home,” the answer ...
Esa-Pekka Salonen Photo: Clive Barda

London Philharmonia

Music Berkeley,
The Philharmonia has been called one of the best orchestras in the world and its principal conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen may be one of our top living ones, so pairing a master work by the Russian Igor ...
Photo: Martina Novak

Kinan Azmeh

Music Berkeley,
Pianists and violinists are the prime donne of classical music so where does that leave Damascus, Syria-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh who makes his instrument sing with his own breath? One doesn't think of clarinetists as ...