Jaime Robles – Page 21 – Repeat Performances

January 21, 2017

West Edge Opera launches its new “Snapshot” series

The Bay Area is an idyllic place, blessed with sublime weather and inhabited by courageous and talented people. The courageous part showed up at the Women’s March in Oakland on Saturday morning. The sublimely and musically talented showed up in...

Categories: opera

January 11, 2017

Bill Irwin dancing to Samuel Beckett

There’s no doubt that the audience loves Bill Irwin. All he has to do is pull on a pair of baggy pants and the audience cheers. There’s also no doubt that Bill Irwin loves Samuel Beckett. These two premises serve as the basis for On...

Categories: theater

December 15, 2016

Smuin’s Merry Merry Christmas

Michael Smuin’s legacy continues on with the company’s annual fête, The Christmas Ballet. First appearing in 1995, this festive dance event...

Categories: dance

December 3, 2016

SF Ballet’s “The Nutcracker”

Visions of delight At the end of the first act of The Nutcracker, the little girl Clara is swept away into the Land of Snow. There the King and Queen of Snow dance for her, and their entourage of...

Categories: dance

November 17, 2016

Cirque du Soleil in sun-soaked rain

Although they must have started designing the current Cirque du Soleil extravaganza that opened at AT&T this past weekend long before Donald Trump made his controversial speech, there is something ironic and defiant in its theme....

Categories: theater

November 10, 2016

“Letter to a Man” at Cal Performances

A love letter danced across time Most dance aficionados would be willing to sacrifice a molar just to watch Mikhail Baryshnikov walk across a stage. However, Cal Performances made it possible...

Categories: dance