Theater Review: ‘Gypsy’ at Hillbarn
Throughout the first act of the Hillbarn’s Gypsy, I wondered why it seemed so lackluster. Annmarie Martin (Rose) is a commanding vocalist. Dan Kapler (Herbie)…
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Left Coast Live music festival coming to downtown San Jose
Organizers have announced that the second annual Left Coast Live Festival and Conference will return to downtown San Jose this summer. Left Coast Live 2010…
Artist Diaries: How do you know when an oil painting is complete?
Part of being a good artist, according to my oil painting teacher, is to know when to stop. Stop painting. In the last episode of…
Berkeley: Aurora Theater Company announces call for submissions for 6th Global Age Project
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…
The Artist Diaries new episode! ‘Half A Duck Head’
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.…
John Leguizamo joins Fireworks Festival at Berkeley Rep
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.…
San Francisco Fleet Week 2010 October 7-12, 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…
San Francisco Opera banks on ‘The Girl of the Golden West’
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…
Theater Review: ‘Round and Round the Garden’ over-intellectualizes bawdy
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…
Theater News: Cal Performances in Berkeley Announces 2010/11 Season
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…