Jaime Robles – Page 24 – Repeat Performances

August 10, 2016

A sparkling tribute to Carole King

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical opened last week at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. This was, in a way, a return home: the musical premiered in San Francisco in 2013 and went on to become a hit on Broadway, where it won two Tony Awards for Best...

Categories: theater

August 6, 2016

Handel’s comedy of power, Agrippina

The dark mysteries of connivance These days it seems our most insightful investigative reporters and political analysts are comedians, from John Oliver to Trevor Noah. Could it be that the political posturings in the...

Categories: opera

July 30, 2016

West Edge Opera presents “The Cunning Little Vixen”

Ah, Janacek, what music! West Edge Opera opened their summer festival last weekend with the Czech composer’s Cunning Little Vixen. The 1924 opera, based on...

Categories: opera

July 29, 2016

The daffy delights of Marin’s “Twelfth Night”

If you go to the Globe Theater in London to watch Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, you will surely see a production in which the high comedy characters conduct themselves with stylish aplomb. Refined accents and restrained movements...

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July 12, 2016

Previewing Garrett + Moulton Production’s “Speak, Angels”

Work of depth and daring In the rehearsal room at ODC Commons, Janice Garrett is urging her dancers to “manipulate the energy.” She lunges, stretching her long elegant...

Categories: dance

July 9, 2016

Cal Shakes presents August Wilson’s “Fences”

California Shakespeare Theater opened their production of August Wilson’s Fences this past weekend. Part of the Pittsburg Cycle, a series of plays most of which are set in the impoverished urban neighborhood Wilson grew up in, Fences...

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