David E. MorenoDanceBerkeley,
Choreographer Justin Peck’s minimalistic “In Creases” started off this weekend’s Joffrey Ballet performance at Zellerbach Hall with a piano work by Philip Glass, “Four Movements For Two Pianos.” With two pianos facing each other mirror-like, the black pianos dressed ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
Although it’s over 100 years since the first African-American boxer, Jack Johnson, won the world heavyweight boxing championship in a fight with James L. Jeffries, the white retired champion, the repercussions continue to be heard. The race riots, injuries and ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the wickedly gothic children’s books, “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” is presenting his first play, the amusing “Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit” in its world premiere ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
Those who think that the primary purpose of theatre is to provide a light and entertaining evening out should be aware that playwright Sarah Kane’s one-act drama, “Blasted” is anything but that. Rather, it is an intense, painful experience, full ...
Thirty of the Temptations' Greatest Hits in a dazzling musical.
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
The story of The Temptations, the greatest rhythm and blues group of all time, bursts forth at Berkeley Rep in an explosion of energy and élan. Multi-talented artistic actors with soulful voices and limber legs capture the stage, backed by ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
“Luna Gale,” the sun around whom all the characters in Rebecca Gilman’s impressive Bay Area premiere play rotates, is the only one we never see. That’s because “Luna Gale” is an infant, the focus of a custody battle between her ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
“Luna Gale,” the sun around whom all the characters in Rebecca Gilman’s impressive Bay Area premiere play rotates, is the only one we never see. That’s because “Luna Gale” is an infant, the focus of a custody battle between her ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
There’s a lot going on in the two-act, three-person production of “The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence” — multiple characters, multiple themes, multiple time periods — so it pays to concentrate in order to absorb all the stimulating ideas ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
From the opening minutes of “An Octoroon” when BJJ, the stand-in for author, MacArthur Fellow Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, appears on a blank stage in his underwear and announces that he is a black playwright, you know that you ...
Four women wait in a luxurious room in an unnamed eastern European city.
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
Four women wait in a luxurious yet austere room in an unnamed eastern European city waiting for an important man who may never arrive. This is the premise of “Splendour” by U.K.’s Abi Morgan (screenwriter of “Suffragette” and “The ...
