Arts And Entertainment
‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ for Youngsters
By Ken Bullock
Friday April 11, 2008
The Emperor’s New Clothes, a family show by that great musicals team Ahrens & Flaherty (Seussical, Ragtime), will be staged by Active Arts for Young Audiences, opening this weekend at the Julia Morgan Center on College Avenue.
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‘Firebird’ at The Crucible
By Ken Bullock
Friday April 11, 2008
The crowd was streaming through the flaming metal portals of The Crucible’s big industrial complex on Oakland’s 7th Street well before curtain time for the “fire ballet” production of Stravinsky’s Firebird.
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Arts & Entertainment: Sekimachi and Stocksdale at the Berkeley Art Center
By Zelda Bronstein
Friday April 11, 2008
The Berkeley Art Center’s current show, “Loom & Lathe: The Art of Kay Sekimachi and Bob Stocksdale,” is full of revelations.
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TheatreFirst Stages Stephen Brown’s ‘Future Me’
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Tuesday April 08, 2008
Empathy—it’s a muscle. If you don’t use it, it wastes away.” What “society’s monsters”—that is, child molesters—experience, in Stephen Brown’s play Future Me at the Berkeley City Club, seems to have little to do with empathy—with their victims, from society, with themselves.
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Playwright Comes To Town for ‘Future Me’ Premiere
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Tuesday April 08, 2008
Future Me is about how society deals with its monsters,” said British playwright Stephen Brown, “what we do with people who’ve done terrible things.”
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MOVING PICTURES: Scorsese, Stones Team Up for ‘Shine a Light’
By Justin DeFreitas
Tuesday April 08, 2008
You may ask, Why another Rolling Stones concert film? Aren’t they a tad past their prime? And haven’t these guys had enough camera time over the past 45 years?
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