Berkeley Arts Festival Calendar

03/31/2016

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

$36-$108. 642-9988. [email protected]

12 midnight, Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus


Cascada de Flores

$15. Benefit for United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez Day Celebration. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com

7pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States


Preview: Hamlet by Shotgun Players

To celebrate our 25th Anniversary, Shotgun Players will present a season in repertory with a core ensemble of actors. We begin with a radical production of the world theatre's most enduring classic. Hamlet is perhaps the one role in Shakespeare's canon that every one of us can identify with. Hamlet is someone's child, someone's lover, a friend, foe, philosopher, artist, critic, clown, politician, hero, villain... And so (drum roll please): Every actor of the ensemble will learn every role of the play. Moments before showtime, the cast lines up before the audience to pull their roles for the night out of Yorick's skull! They get 5 minutes to gather their wits and then the performance begins. It's a Hamlet roulette! Hamlet begins previews on March 31st, 2016 the Ashby Stage - will run as part of the repertory season through January 2017.

8pm to 10pm, The Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Avenue


Mouths of Babes

Featuring Ty Greenstein (Girlyman) & Ingrid Elizabeth (Coyote Grace). $19 adv / $21 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org

8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States