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Pink Martini and the San Francisco Symphony to perform at Davies Symphony Hall

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.11.2010

Pink Martini returns to Davies Symphony Hall to perform two special concerts with the San Francisco Symphony led by Assistant Conductor Donato Cabrera at 8:00…

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The Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon select 9 students to compete for scholarships

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.10.2010

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, announced today the selection of nine Bay Area finalists for the Steve Silver Foundation and…

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Left Coast Live music festival coming to downtown San Jose

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.08.2010

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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…