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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…

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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…

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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…

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San Jose Rep receives 5 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Awards

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.04.2010

The San Jose Rep Theater received 5 awards last night at the Bay Area Theater Critics’ Circle Awards ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts…

Norman (Manoel Felciano) and Ruth (René Augesen) discuss their marriage. Photo by Kevin Berne.

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British sex farce ‘Round and Round the Garden’ comes to ACT San Francisco

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.04.2010

Only in England, you say? Round and Round the Garden, the third installment of Alan Ayckbourn’s acclaimed trilogy The Norman Conquests, opens tomorrow night at…

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Artist Diaries: Branches go in and a conversation on the art market in San Francisco

BY LONI STARK — 05.04.2010

This week I wasn’t able to make it to art class since I was in Napa picking up some wine and touring some wineries. However,…

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Tonight: Aurora Theatre Company holds annual “Aurora Borealis” fundraising gala

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.03.2010

Berkeley’s acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company, now celebrating its 18th season, lights up the night with an evening of heavenly wining and dining at Aurora Borealis,…

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Philip K. Howard on legal reform, ‘Life Without Lawyers’ and TED

BY LONI STARK — 05.03.2010

Legal reform advocate Philip K. Howard (LIFE WITHOUT LAWYERS) talks with Stark Insider in a podcast about what it might take to fix the American…

Tonya Glanz, Cole Alexander Smith, Robert Parsons in Slasher. Photos by Jessica Palopoli

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Theater Review: ‘Slasher’ at SF Playhouse, not off the hook

BY CLINTON STARK — 05.03.2010

Slasher goes for the jugular, but comes up short. The Bay Area premiere now playing at SF Playhouse succeeds, though, in spilling blood. Lots of…

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Fantastically funny, ‘Anton in Show Business’ opens in Palo Alto

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 05.02.2010

Even since Michael Litfin’s “PLACES” appeared at Palo Alto Children’s Theatre, theatre about theatre has been on my radar. Where else can we get away…