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I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. To say that there’s more than meets the eye when observing the artwork of Baseera Khan would be an understatement. Deep within the materials Khan uses in multidisciplinary projects are both inner explorations and experiences with and within a complex world. “I think about material and its production and infrastructure and how it influences economies,” said Khan, who is th...

Carmen Cusack, Raúl Esparza, Alice Ripley, and More Join Berkeley Rep Original Film Project THE WAVES IN QUARANTINE Ambitious project also includes celebrated Broadway talents Nikki Renée Daniels, Darius de Haas, and Manu Narayan.by BWW News Desk Berkeley Repertory Theatre today announced an ambitious new work, The Waves in Quarantine, a project consisting of six short films that meditates on friendship, loss, and the making of art in this world-changing year, inspired by Virginia Woolfs 193...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Eric Ting remembers the chill that passed through the room when someone coughed during the California Shakespeare Theater gala in March of last year. The annual fundraising event—essential to the theate...

From S.F. Opera to the Rickshaw Stop, presenters struggle to take their patrons’ emotional temperature about reentry Lily Janiak and Joshua Kosman April 14, 2021Updated: April 15, 2021, 7:21 am Krystyna Finlayson shows off the theater tickets she has kept on March 31, 2020, in Walnut Creek. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle In normal times, Walnut Creek theater patron Krystyna Finlayson sees 10 to 15 plays a month. So when playhouses reopen after being dark for more than a yea...

Crip Camp, by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. Photo: Steve Honigsbaum When James “Jim” LeBrecht was 15 years old, he picked up a video camera and pointed it at Camp Jened, a utopian summer camp in upstate New York for teenagers with disabilities. That summer day in 1971 was a seminal moment in the future filmmaker’s life as LeBrecht introduced his fellow campers to the camera. The film footage LeBrecht captured would later be included in Crip Camp – a documentary he and fellow Oakland...

“Sopranos” star Joseph Siravo, who played Tony Soprano’s father, has died following a long battle with cancer. He was 64.

“Sopranos” star Joseph Siravo, who played Tony Soprano’s father, has died following a long battle with cancer. He was 64.

Chronicle Staff April 6, 2021Updated: April 6, 2021, 7:25 pm The Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco. Photo: Kyle Jeffers With the announcement that California is eliminating its color-coded tier system and allowing businesses to operate at or near 100% capacity by June 15, Bay Area arts organizations are finally seeing the end of what has been a very long, dark period. Masks will still be a requirement at public events, but the expectation is that life — nightlife — will be r...

Share: Award-winning playwright Tanya Shaffer to help deliver on Remote Theaters vision to engage global playwrights and showcase their work digitally around the world. Santa Clara, CA, March 17, 2021 --(PR.com)-- Remote Theater, a new theater company committed to pioneering the art of mixed-media live performance, has announced that award-winning actor/playwright Tanya Shaffer will be its first resident artist. In that role, she will work closely with the Remote team to develop new works and ...

Revisiting Bay Area theater’s first pandemic interviews one year later Early pandemic interviewing felt like asking someone to peer off a cliff into an abyss and tell me what they saw. Lily Janiak March 16, 2021Updated: March 16, 2021, 8:11 pm The Frost Amphitheater begins to fill up for a Kali Uchis and Jorja Smith concert at Stanford. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle 2019 When I interviewed theater artists and producers in late February and early March of last year, I often felt...