Berkeley: Aurora Theatre Company announces 20th anniversary season
"We look upon this juncture in our history as an opportunity for so many of us who have been a part of Aurora from its…
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San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra brings it on home
The SF Symphony Youth Orchestra, under the baton of Donato Cabrera, pulled off this ambitious program with stunning maturity and virtuosity.
Review: ‘The North Pool’ strikes home in Palo Alto
The 2009 suicides of Gunn High School students are still very close to us here, not the least because the number of deaths was far…
Separate Tables opens at the Hillbarn
Hillbarn Director Hunt Burdick stood this piece on its head by heightening the action so that it plays as over-the-top British humor instead of high…
Theater Review: ‘The Homecoming’ absurdly entertaining
René Augesen embodies the sly, sexually-charged Ruth with such unnerving nymph-like appeal, it's easy to see why the role is one of her personal favorites.
San Francisco Symphony Review: Kurt Masur conducts Mendelssohn
The primacy of live performance is nowhere more evident than the role played by the six basses that drive the Italian Symphony forward.
In Berkeley: Pizza, beer and ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Did I mention we were sitting underneath a fully operating pizza joint? Consider those occasional bumps, screeches of a chair being dragged and knocks from…
Winery Profile: Searching for Bacchus at Clos Pegase Napa (video)
Shrem's wife and partner of fifty years, Mitsuko, had passed away just a few months before our visit. I was not sure he'd accept our…
San Francisco: 35th Annual Bay Area Critics Circle Awards
In addition to the 74 outstanding performance/design award categories, the Critics Circle will also present three special awards.
Cinequest Film Festival Guide: Best bets
People are connecting like they never have before. And we are all having a blast together." - Halfdan Hussey, co-founder Cinequest.