Jaime Robles – Page 20 – Repeat Performances

March 10, 2017

A.C.T. presents Annie Baker’s “John”

A quietude of kindness In these days of energetic acting, high-speed dialog, and dazzlingly complicated plots, playwright Annie Baker’s John is a marvel of tender realism. The three-hour play at A.C.T.’s The Strand is paced like a snail on Quaaludes. But as...

Categories: theater

February 26, 2017

“The Source” at SF Opera Lab

SF Opera Lab opened its second season with The Source. It’s a complex and compelling piece that deals with war and the ways in which the U.S. military obscures what it does in conflict. The Source focuses on Pvt. Chelsea...

Categories: opera

February 25, 2017

More Snapshots from West Edge Opera

West Edge Opera presented its second set of Snapshots in its new series of selections of opera composed by Bay Area librettists and composers. Saturday’s performance at the David Brower Center was just as diverse as the last month’s selection. The instrumentalists just as accomplished and...

Categories: opera

February 19, 2017

Opera San José’s “Silent Night”

Silent Night, which opened its run at Opera San José on February 11, was the first opera of American composer Kevin Puts. It debuted in 2011 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 2012 Kevin Puts was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the music. The opera delves...

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February 15, 2017

The wow of the Batsheva Dance Company

Imagine Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights – an effusive and detailed landscape filled with cavorting naked humans, one wearing a single enormous blossom as a hat, and...

Categories: dance

February 12, 2017

Flight unfastens your musical seatbelt

Opera Parallèle takes wing again In the quiet hours of the airport, after most have flown off to destinations known and unknown, the Controller sings with the Refugee. Beginning with soaring vocalese, soprano Nikki Einfeld and countertenor Tai Oney meet in some solitary musical space between earth...

Categories: opera