Review: The Ram’s Head does ‘Les Mis’
Chris Apy and Tonyboy Marin's performances of Gavroche (especially “Little People”) brought down the house.
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Coming home with ‘Tribes’ at Berkeley Rep (Review)
The show begins with the theatre equivalent of a palate-chaser, as the lights plunge you into a darkness so deep that the stage lights sear…
San Francisco Street Walk, ‘Palo Alto’ SFIFF screening (Video)
Scene in San Francisco, post SFIFF screening of Gia Coppola's PALO ALTO.
Film Watch: ‘Palo Alto’ at SFIFF
'Palo Alto', the film, offers a (significantly) different perspective on life here in Silicon Valley, then, say, the HBO satire 'Silicon Valley'.
Fincher Green not missing in ‘Gone Girl’ Trailer
Like we saw in the creepy, visceral Se7en (1995), Fincher once again cloaks his scenes in darkness. Even broad daylight seems less bright.
Clever comedy ‘Wittenberg’ scores in Berkeley
Davalos characterizes Faustus as a Renaissance Timothy Leary.
Post-zombie apocalypse ‘Iliad’ storms San Jose (Review)
This is a massive tome, and their cuts were well placed to “sing the rage of Peleus’s son Achilles” without tediously dragging the audience across…
The Artist Diaries: Asilomar State Beach, Monterey (Video)
At the Plein Air Convention in Monterey I've made many new friends. And I've begun the challenging journey of painting landscapes.
Plein Air in Monterey, aka confronting the canvas
Plein Air artist and Instructor Bill Davidson from Atlanta, ever gregarious and a wonderful teacher, tells me to be bold. Each brush stroke should be…
Ain’t nothing but a hound dog
This version of 'Hound of the Baskervilles' by TheatreWorks stays true to its Brit roots, perhaps in a way never imagined by Arthur Conan Doyle.…