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The San Francisco Opera has gotten through its first hundred years successfully. Some...

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...

When audiences and art workers prefer gathering outside, the Bruns Amphitheater becomes prime artistic real estate. Lily Janiak February 2, 2021Updated: February 2, 2021, 4:42 pm The ensemble of California Shakespeare Theater’s “The Good Person of Szechwan.” Photo: Kevin Berne, California Shakespeare Theater California Shakespeare Theater plans to host an in-person season this summer at its Bruns Amphitheater in the Orinda hills, but with only one show produced by Cal Shakes itsel...

Joshua Kosman January 15, 2021Updated: January 21, 2021, 11:05 am The eight curators of West Edge Opera’s Aperture commissioning program meet on Zoom to go over entries: (Top row) Emilie Whelan, Brian M. Rosen and Mary Chun; (middle) Michael Morgan, Aléxa Anderson and Jonathan Khuner; (bottom) Mark Streshinsky and Leigh Rondon-Davis. Photo: West Edge Opera, West Edge Opera One composer wants to write an opera based on family history, telling the story of her Korean great-aunt w...