Arts And Entertainment
‘Wild Christmas Binge’ at SF Playhouse
By Ken Bullock , Special to the Planet
Friday December 07, 2007
In Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, directed by Berkeley favorite Joy Carlin at the San Francisco Playhouse off Union Square, what at first flush seems to be a loopy burlesque of that seasonal chestnut, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, proves postmodern.
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Revels Open at Oakland Scottish Rite Auditorium
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday December 07, 2007
The California Revels opens tonight (Friday) at the Oakland Scottish Rite Auditorium on Lake Merritt, celebrating its 22nd season in two weekends of music, dance and pageantry.
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Moving Pictures: 'I Am Cuba' — A Long-Neglected Masterpiece of Political Filmmaking
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday December 07, 2007
When art dabbles in politics it runs the risk of its politics subsuming its art. No matter how great the artistic achievement, there is always the danger that critical and popular reception may be held hostage to considerations that go far beyond artistic merit.
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The Theater: Altarena Stages ‘Man Who Saved Christmas’
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday December 04, 2007
Christmas in wartime America—but it’s the First World War, and the administration is set to declare a moratorium on toy sales to encourage families to buy Liberty Bonds.
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