Arts And Entertainment
The Theater: Calshakes Stages ‘The Triumph of Love’
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday August 14, 2007
All this web of deceit was woven to win you, proof of my devotion.” So speaks Princess Leonide of Sparta (Stacy Ross), free of her disguise as a man and decked out in royal—and feminine—splendor, to Prince Agis (Jud Williford), son of a monarch whose throne was usurped by Leonide’s uncle, and object of her much, but never directly, professed devotion.
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The Theater: SF Theater Group Brings Noir Classic to the Stage
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday August 14, 2007
I’ve been around plenty, and ‘around’ wasn’t pretty ...” So intones a hard-boiled chorus girl with a beautiful visage, who teams up with “a cop too tough to be crooked” in Cornell Woolrich’s celebrated noir thriller, Angel Face, originally published in the pulp mag Black Mask, and now translated onstage by Word For Word in their inimitable combo of acting and self-narration, at Theater Artaud in San Francisco’s Mission District, through Sept. 3.
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Hungarian Actor Finds a Home in Berkeley
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday August 10, 2007
The interesting thing about me is that I’m not interesting at all,” smiled Krisztina Peremartoni as she handed out a card reading, “Hey Actor! Shouldn’t you be acting?” for her Open Acting classes, held in a studio in Oakland.
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Take a Walking Tour of Berkeley’s Best Art Deco
By Steven Finacom, Special to the Planet
Friday August 10, 2007
Three quarters of a century ago the Art Deco or Moderne era left a legacy of exuberant edifices in the Berkeley architectural landscape. Several of the best will be showcased on a downtown architectural tour this Saturday, Aug. 11.
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