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The Berkeley Arts Festival 2008 has come to an end, or mostly to an end. I'm sure we will do a few more concerts before the new year. But we have disappeared from our Shattuck Avenue location which was by far the most wonderful space we have ever been lucky enough to borrow. The accoustics were studio quality. Recordings made there are the truest imaginable.
While the space was fabulous, it was of course the quality of the performances that made this the outstanding year of all time. Pianists Sarah Cahill and Jerry Kuderna, composers Luciano Chessa, and Theresa Wong, Dan Plonsey and John Schott and Dream Kitchen were some Berkeley's accomplished musicians who rounded out the program.
through June 30
Maldonado envisioned unique cities without slums, solar powered communities, an earth rotation generator, and a world at peace, one that was maintained by an international barter system. Maldonado feared the danger of extinction for both the human and animal races through pollution and disease. Through his paintings, he envisioned unique cities without slums, towns existing underwater or underground, and entire communities run on solar power. His boundless imagination offered us a world of peace and justice with giant vacuum towers to purify the air, coast to coast travel in less than an hour, and a world in which all can walk safety day or night.
Mon-Fri 10:30 am to 3:30 pm
free, Ames Gallery, 2661 Cedar Street, 845-4949
May 11 June 1, 2008
Written and performed by Nilaja Sun.
Directed by Hal Brooks.
The award-winning off-Broadway play that shines a light on the struggles and miracles of Americas public schools.
$13.50 - $69, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison Street, 647.2949
May 2-June 7; Thu-Sat 8pm
By John Ford, directed by Melissa Hillman
Giovanni and Annabella are in lovetrouble. They're brother and sister. Worse, Annabella becomes pregnant. To conceal the scandal, Annabella marries one of her many suitors, Soranzo, but he discovers that she's already pregnant. Then things really get nasty: revenge, double-crosses, murder.
$15-$10, La Val's Subterranean, 1834 Euclid Avenue, 464-4468
Checkov on Friday and Saturdays, April 18th - May 17th
It's a comedy and a tragedy. It's human beings locked into an existence and their struggle to find some meaning in their lives.
$12 ($10 for students/seniors), Live Oak Theater, 1301 Shattuck Ave, 649-5999
May 16-June 22
Flawed heroes, sympathetic monsters, and haughty professors collide as one of the most twisted stories in the literary cannon comes to lifewith a live musical score! Shotgun Players and collaborating company Banana, Bag and Bodice have gotten down to work inspecting this classic poem and adapting its powerful narrative to make a new musical play that is part homage and part parody.
Pay what you can first week. $17 for Thursdays, $22 for Fridays and Sundays, and $25 for Saturdays., Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Avenue, 841-6500
February 13- May 18
Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia
Mickey Mouse meets Aztec gods and Francisco Goya meets Jerry Falwell
through March 2, 2008
Goya: The Disasters of War An exhibition of prints by the Spanish master.
through June 30
Gay Outlaw: Black Hose Mountain
Two ton sculpture by SF artist Gay Outlaw
through July 31, 2008
Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
Wednesday-Sunday, 11 am-5 pm, Thursday 11 am-7 pm, free first Thursdays
$8 Adults (18-64) $5 Seniors, non-UC students, UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2625 Durant Avenue, 642-0808
April 25 June 8, 2008
The West Coast premiere of a magical show that marries Mozart and Theatre de la Jeune Lune, inspired by Mozart and Beaumarchais. Adapted by Steven Epp and Dominique Serrand and featuring the Seventh Avenue String Quartet.
$27-$69, Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater, 2015 Addison Street, 647.2949
From the Top is a weekly classical music program showcasing young musicians from across the country; it comes to Cal Performances for a live taping. This taping is sponsored by KDFC 102.1, where the program can also be heard locally.
$20-$40, Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, 642-9988
through May 4
Directed by Dylan Russell.
Featuring: Dana Jepsen*, Dana Kelly*, Maggie Mason, Ryan Purcell, Peter Ruocco, and Allison Studdiford*.
(*Members, Actors' Equity Association)
Forgiveness is beautiful. It frees the forgiven and exalts the forgiver. But is every act forgivable? Are there some deeds that so define the doer that we should never look beyond them?
Thursday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 3pm
$23-$28; preview $10, Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, 436 5085
April 6, 2008-May 17, 2008
An exhibition by Marcia McNally, Sadie
Graham, and Louise Mozingo marks the 100th anniversary of Berkeley's park system in 2007. The exhibit presents the
history of Berkeley's park system, the people and plans that shaped it, and envisions a vital future for the next century.
free, Addison Street Windows, 2018 Addison Street, 981-7546
April 4-May 11
directed by Barbara Oliver
Playwright Ellen Mc Laughlin's Euripides-inspired drama of the last days of Troy.
$40-$42, previews $28, Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison Street, 843-4822