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A sunset on Indian Rock on July 10, 2020. Photo: Kevin Murphy Berkeley Rep’s Place/Settings features 10 prominent writers, journalists, playwrights, novelists and composers who penned short works about Berkeley, which were then turned into audio recordings. Berkeleyside is a media sponsor of Place/Settings. Want to share your own favorite place in Berkeley? Leave a comment below.  We teamed up with Berkeley Rep to ask our readers about their favorite places in Berkeley. We asked that they su...

BSC Announces Winners 2021 Bonnie & Terry Burnam New Play Award Information from Press release from Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Founder/Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award. The award, founded in 2018, supports new, bold voices for the American theatre and is presented to unproduced full-length works that are wholly original and not adaptations or translations of existing works. The 202...

Barrington Stage Company Announces Winners of the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award The 2021 Grand Prize winner is Daniella De Jesús for her play, Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back.by BWW News Desk Barrington Stage Company has announced the winners of the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award. The award, founded in 2018, supports new, bold voices for the American theatre and is presented to unproduced full-length works that are wholly original and not adaptatio...

Look up at the stars with the Chabot Space and Science Center this weekend. Credit: Chabot Space and Science Center VIRTUAL TELESCOPELook up at the stars with the Chabot Space and Science Center this weekend. The Chabot’s astronomers will lead viewers through a tour of the night sky by looking through their most powerful telescope. The telescope, named Nellie, is a 36-inch reflector telescope that is housed in a rolling roof observatory that provides a 180-degree view of the sky. The astronom...

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Real, imagined Berkeley celebrated in Berkeley Rep audio series ‘Place/Settings’ The East Bay companys audio series is grounded in specific sites in Berkeley, penned by writers with strong ties to the city Lily Janiak January 8, 2021Updated: January 12, 2021, 5:47 pm Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda is seen at Jewel Lake in Berkeley. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle When playwright Philip Kan Gotanda set out to write an audio short story about Jewel Lake for Berkeley Rep’s “Pla...

Stimulus bill includes funds for arts venues. Which Berkeley ones will be eligible? The Save Our Stages act makes about $15 billion available to independent music venues, theaters and cultural organizations. Dark Star Orchestra playing UC Theatre in 2016. Founder David Mayeri says he doesn’t expect the venue to reopen until fall 2021. Photo: Kelly Owen As Congress rushed to pass a $900 billion stimulus package Monday night that faced immediate criticism as too little too late, many venues and...

Ali (Colman Domingo) joins Rue (Zendaya) for a long conversation in a special episode of “Euphoria.” Photo: Eddy Chen, HBO Philadelphia-born Domingo is a veteran New York actor, writer and director who first honed his craft on such Bay Area stages as Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and Berkeley Rep. “I don’t think I’d be able to do anything that I’m doing without my time in San Francisco,” he told The Chronicle. “I spent 10 of the most formative ...

Chronicle Staff December 14, 2020Updated: December 18, 2020, 7:14 am Oakland teen Sarah Schecter wrote one of the seven winning plays in “#Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence,” a nationwide playwriting competition for middle and high school students. Photo: Courtesy of Sarah Schecter The Chronicle’s guide to notable arts and entertainment happenings in the Bay Area.  Teen playwrights take firm stand with ‘#Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence’ Some of the most eloquent and po...