Arts And Entertainment
Arts: Bay Area’s American Bach Soloists Bring ‘The St. Matthew Passion’ to Berkeley
Ken Bullock
Friday May 12, 2006
When the American Bach Soloists take on the grandeur (and three-hour-plus extent) of The St. Matthew Passion at Saturday at the First Congregational Church, it will be with a somewhat different, more unified sense of that great work’s contemporary significance.
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Arts: Moving Pictures: Art and Artifice in ‘Lost City,’ ‘Art School Confidential’
Justin DeFreitas
Friday May 12, 2006
Actor, director, composer Andy Garcia’s The Lost City is billed as a love song to Garcia’s native Cuba, to the island as it existed before Fidel Castro’s revolution. The movie attempts to evoke a paradise lost, a land of music and dance and family destroyed by corruption and violence.
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Arts: Subterranean Shakespeare Takes on ‘Richard III’
By Ken Bulock Special to the Planet
Tuesday May 09, 2006
“Now is the Winter of our Discontent,” rings out offstage, as silent Lady Anne (Tiffany Harrison) has laid at the audience’s feet the first of many forlorn coats that signify their absent—and murdered—wearers, and Subterranean Shakespeare’s production of The Bard’s Richard III gets underway at the Berkeley Art Center.
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