Urban Bush Women Cal Performances Dec. 1, 2023 8 pm Zellerbach Playhouse “Hair & Other Stories” Performance as Protest/Participation The Urban Bush Women are an outstanding group who can lecture, sing, act and dance. They are collaborators, with Mame Diaarra…
Category: Performance
NYC Ballet – Balanchine – Oct 12,13, 2023
New York City Ballet Lincoln Center, Koch Auditorium October 12, 13, 2023 7:30 PM Celebration! History, Nostalgia, Performance Memories The three works on this Thursday program date from early times in the development of the NYC Ballet. For the 75th…
Wolf Play
Wolf Play Shotgun Theater Berkeley, CA Opening Night September 9, 2023 In a theater seminar at UC Berkeley a professor asked, after the class had read a play, “What is the play about?” Students began to cite the plot. “No!”…
The Triumph of Love
Shotgun Players Berkeley, CA “The Triumph of Love” March 25, 2023. Preview “Love” withstands the test of time… …in the theater with Shotgun’s delightful cast and Patrick Dooley’s direction. Shotgun has remade a 300 year old “commedia” play into a…
Oakland Ballet March 17, 2023
“Dancing Moons Festival” Oakland Ballet Oakland Asian Cultural Center March 17, 2023 7:30 pm Many Events of Diverse Design The Oakland Ballet, under the direction of Graham Lustig, has reached into the Oakland community in many ways, staging dances from…
Water in the Kettle
“Water in the Kettle” February 3, 2023 Rhythmic Cultural Works, Alameda, CA Evie Ladin, Artistic Director of “Water in the Kettle”, tells us in a program note that the production was 5 years in the making. The MoToR group started…
SF Ballet – Next 90 Festival – Program B
San Francisco Ballet Program B Sunday, January 29, 2023 2 pm Opera House, San Francisco “New Ballets:” some dimensions not yet presented! Program B, for which, alas, this reviewer had to miss opening night, was repeated on Sunday, January 29…
SF Ballet: Nutcracker – December 2022
NUTCRACKER: San Francisco Ballet Choreography by Helgi Tomasson, December 8, 2022 It’s Holiday season and although Helgi Tomasson is no longer Artistic Director of the SF Ballet (he has been succeeded by Tamara Rojo), his production of “Nutcracker” is on…
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 Shotgun Players: Ashby Stage. Berkeley, CA From November 12, 2022-January, 2023 Amazing Event! Have you tried reading “War and Peace” and can’t remember when? Did you read the first 100 pages and…
The Farallonites
The Farallonites Dana Lawton Dancers September 16-28, 2022 Cowell Theater,Fort Mason Center, SF A Dance/Drama for California Dana Lawton and her company have brought a valuable and exciting dimension of dance/theater to Bay Area audiences. “The Farallonites” is not only…