YouTube partners with Sundance Film Festival, pilots rental program
Here’s a news item that may please both independent film buffs and technology fans alike. YouTube, which Google has been actively updating this week (new…
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Two local kids make stage debut in ‘Coming Home’ at Berkeley Rep
In Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production of Coming Home, two enthusiastic local children are enjoying their stage debuts. Five-year-old Kohle Thomas Bolton and 11-year-old Jaden Malik Wiggins…
Phèdre opens Jan. 20 at A.C.T. starring Seana McKenna who “holds the Canadian patent on Greek tragedy”
Jean Racine’s grand tragedy Phèdre opens Wednesday January 20 at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in a world premiere translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Our Country’s Good, A.C.T.’s…
ZER01 ends 2009 on a funding roll
Just as the year was coming to a close, ZER01 received word that $500k in new grants was coming its way. The funding breaks down…
Real and HyperReal at San Jose Museum of Art January 30-August 1
The San Jose Museum of Art will present the exhibition Real and HyperReal from January 30 through August 1, 2010. Drawn exclusively from SJMA’s permanent…
San Jose Repertory Theatre Presents the Laurence Olivier BBC Award Winner, ‘The Weir’
When a story is told well enough, one will follow it anywhere. Even to unexpected places, such as isolated, rural Ireland. In Conor McPherson’s utterly…
Wayne Thiebaud exhibition at San Jose Museum of Art February 16-July 4
The San Jose Museum of Art will trace the career of American artist Wayne Thiebaud in the retrospective exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: Seventy Years of Painting,…
Aurora Theatre Company presents World Premiere ‘The First Grade’
Aurora Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of lauded Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson’s THE FIRST GRADE. Exploring with great humor and passion the price…
The San Francisco Symphony’s New Organ series premieres with Paul Jacobs in recital Sunday, January 17 Davies Symphony Hall
Award-winning American organist Paul Jacobs opens the San Francisco Symphony’s first organ recital series at Davies Symphony Hall on Sunday, January 17 at 6:00 PM…
Youth Company presents Disney’s Mulan this weekend at JMCA
The Berkeley Playhouse announced their youth company will be performing Disney’s Mulan (Jr) this weekend at the Julia Morgan Center. It should be another high…