Jaime Robles – Page 26 – Repeat Performances

May 14, 2016

Central Works ponders Stevenson’s “Jekyll and Hyde”

Central Works opened its world premiere of Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde this past weekend. It’s the third in writer and Central Works Co-Director Gary Graves’ dramatic trilogy delving into the gothic...

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May 13, 2016

Exercising the Grey Matter

On Friday, Grey Matter opened at The Marsh in San Francisco. A new work by Julie Katz, Grey Matter is an hour-long monologue on the alienation suffered in large international companies. And although it claims itself as a commentary on the IT...

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May 7, 2016

Smuin Ballet opens Dance Series Two

Smuin Ballet’s celebratory world of dance Smuin Ballet opened its Dance Series Two this past weekend at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, showing not only new work but a whole new...

Categories: dance

April 30, 2016

SF Ballet’s Onegin

Why is it that shy, bookish girls always fall for self-absorbed and vain men? So the sweet Tatiana falls for the arrogant Onegin, leading to disaster. Pushkin’s classic story in verse has been the basis of opera and ballet, plays and films. As well as being translated...

Categories: dance

April 29, 2016

Opera Parallèle’s compelling production of “The Lighthouse”

This past weekend Opera Parallèle presented another of their finely produced operas at Z Space in San Francisco. The venue’s 50-foot-deep stage allowed the directors to create the illusion of a storm swept Scottish...

Categories: opera

April 16, 2016

“Art!” at the Lesher Center for the Arts

Art! Wherefore art thou Art? The trouble starts when Serge, dermatologist and budding art collector, shows his best friend Marc a newly acquired painting. The painting is a small one in museum terms, not even 6’x 6’. And...

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