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Berkeley: Aurora Theater Company announces call for submissions for 6th Global Age Project

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.08.2010

Berkeley’s acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company is proud to announce a call for submissions for its sixth season of the Global Age Project (GAP) festival of…

Cameras & Filmmaking

The Artist Diaries new episode! ‘Half A Duck Head’

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.07.2010

Who knew there could be so much intrigue in an oil painting class? It must be the intense creative process that unleashes all that drama.…

Culture

John Leguizamo joins Fireworks Festival at Berkeley Rep

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.07.2010

Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced it has added another incendiary performer to Fireworks, a new festival of colorful and explosive performances that takes off this summer.…

Culture

San Francisco Fleet Week 2010 October 7-12, 2010

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.07.2010

UPDATE: The benefit performance by Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show has been updated to June 24. The San Francisco Fleet Week Association announced that San…

Act II set model Set design by Maurizio Balò

Theater and Stage

San Francisco Opera banks on ‘The Girl of the Golden West’

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.06.2010

When audiences hear one of the characters in Puccini’s 1910 opera La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) hailed as a “Wells…

Ruth (René Augesen) can't believe how clueless Tom (Dan Hiatt) is. Photo by Kevin Berne.

Culture

Theater Review: ‘Round and Round the Garden’ over-intellectualizes bawdy

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.06.2010

Norman the librarian is one heck of a swinger, baby. The three woman in his life are disgusted by his philandering ways, at least most…

Culture

Theater News: Cal Performances in Berkeley Announces 2010/11 Season

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.06.2010

Director Matias Tarnopolsky announced Cal Performances’ 2010/11 Season, his first season of programming as head of the internationally recognized 105-year-old institution based on the campus…

Culture

Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco celebrates ten years and the start of ZinZanni Camp

BY LONI STARK — 05.06.2010

Teatro ZinZanni, set along the historic San Francisco waterfront, provides an escape from the city into a whimsical world of cabaret, acrobatics, and comedy…all accompanied…

Culture

Opera San Jose Back Stage: Costume design and conducting

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.05.2010

Opera San Jose is a colorful and majestic place to be, thanks to the California Theater, and some wonderful costume design. Most importantly, though, are…

Culture

TheatreWorks celebrates as Broadway hit ‘Memphis’ receives 8 Tony nominations

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.05.2010

The announcement of eight 2010 Tony Award nominations for the Broadway hit Memphis was cause for celebration at TheatreWorks, the Silicon Valley theatre company that…