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"content": "\u003cp>Behind the character of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a line of thousands of actors. They have come to him over and over again, as if he were less a role to play than an artistic pilgrimage. We speak of Olivier’s Hamlet, Burton’s Hamlet, Gielgud’s Hamlet, Richardson’s, Berkoff’s, Kline’s, Hawkes’, Branagh’s, Cumberbatch’s…the list goes on. And we even speak with regret of the Hamlets that \u003cem>might have been\u003c/em>: Brando’s, Dean’s, Welles’. We dream of them all, if only to toss them aside as likely to have come up short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Hamlet will have none of it. The most definitive character of the Western canon is also the most elusive. Every attempt seems a gloss — an approximation of the real thing. And so Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> has always seemed more of an actor’s play than a director’s; more about an ambitious actor confronting an impossible role than the personal and political struggles of one royal family in Denmark. As a weeping teenager said to me after a rather pedestrian production, “we have lost a beautiful soul.” One might add, that we have lost all the souls determined to bring that soul to life. Enter the graveyard and behold the ghosts. It’s a crowded field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Jackson knows that. The director and conceptual wizard behind the Shotgun Players’ uplifting and weirdly affecting \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> once performed a version of the play, \u003cem>I am Hamlet\u003c/em>, in which Hamlet played all the roles himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, Jackson reverses the equation. Announcing before the performance begins to the audience that the actors have no idea who they’re going to play — and in fact no one does, not even the director himself — he invites the cast of seven on stage. The actors run out with the peppy bonhomie of game show contestants, line up in a row before us, and wait. Who will play Hamlet? And for that matter Claudius, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes? Jackson pulls the cast list out of Yorick’s skull and assigns the parts one by one. It’s a goofy, curiously intense moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11528061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11528061\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/1-1-e1461698736727-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"(From L to R) Beth Wilmurt, Cathleen Riddley, Nick Medina, El Beh, Kevin Clarke, David Sinaiko, and Megan Trout wait to be assigned their roles. 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Photo: Pak Han.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You immediately notice that there isn’t a conventional Hamlet in the cast. They are a wonderfully eclectic bunch: men and women, a smattering of ages and races, and, if you follow Bay Area performers, even different acting styles. So the first move Jackson makes in this \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> is both to play up and side step the drama of playing Hamlet. There will be a confrontation between actor and role, but one unknown until the very last moment. And this is the rub: what is true for Hamlet will now be true for all the other roles as well. We are plunged into a democracy of infinite possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is that gray-haired man capable of playing the young and tragic Ophelia? Can that young woman possibly understand what it means to be Polonius, an aging stooge to the king? What would an African-American woman bring to Hamlet or Hamlet to her? Every role becomes a question and every cast member an uncertain answer. Even talent, at least how we normally perceive it, loses meaning in this production. Instead, the question becomes one of qualities: how does this particular person, unlikely or perfectly cast, transform the character and, most importantly, the play?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Medina, a revelation all three nights I saw him, opens up aspects of \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> that are often unrealized. I always thought of Gertrude as cold, not compassionate. Yet watch him tear up, not showily, when his character watches Ophelia go mad, or his shock when Gertrude realizes that Claudius has no feeling for her son. Here is a young man’s body, wild and forceful, giving subtle expression to the half-formed fears of a middle-aged woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11528072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11528072 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Hamlet\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Beth Wilmurt as Gertrude and Nick Medina as Claudius. 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So that when he warns Ophelia of the dangers in falling in love with Hamlet, you can’t help but feel that Wilmurt is talking to a younger version of herself — that she once was Ophelia, and ironically in this production, still might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play begins with a ghost. But see the play three times in a row as I did, and it feels as if the entire cast has a touch of the dead and missing about them. Wasn’t Clarke Hamlet’s father the day before he played Hamlet? Megan Trout’s commanding Claudius has strong traces of her equally regal Gertrude. In playing Polonius, Laertes, and Ophelia over successive nights, Cathleen Riddley sketches a beautiful portrait of a most unfortunate family, all victims of Hamlet’s rage. Cast her to type and she would have been the missing wife and mother that the play never mentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11528068\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11528068 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hamlet\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/6-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/6-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/6-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/6.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Beth Wilmurt as Gertrude, Nick Medina as Claudius, Cathleen Riddley as Ophelia, and Megan Trout as Laertes. Photo: Pak Han.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are only seven actors in this production, but they produce scores of ghosts, doppelgangers, and strange memories of themselves. It’s a beautiful effect and a unique and rich response to the play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But given the amount of daring, skill, energy, and focus it must have taken to produce this \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em>, it goes without saying that you should not expect a perfect production. Jackson’s cut of the play is sharp and smooth, though it sacrifices much of the political statecraft that makes Hamlet such a fascinating public figure, both for Shakespeare’s imagined Denmark and us as well. This is a \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> of intense personal feeling, and the production only falters when it takes on some of the play’s more public scenes. These include the opening coronation of Claudius, the staging of the play-within-the-play, and the final fight where a rethinking of the stage combat is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are all small concerns, though. Everything about this \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em>, even the in-character calls for the odd forgotten line, is alive to one of the greatest plays in the world. We should be thankful to witness such a circus of daring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The initial run of \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> plays through Sunday, May 15 at Shotgun Players’ Ashby Stage in Berkeley, and it will continue to run in rep (alongside other plays in the season) through January, 2017. For tickets and information go to www.shotgunplayers.org.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Behind the character of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a line of thousands of actors. They have come to him over and over again, as if he were less a role to play than an artistic pilgrimage. We speak of Olivier’s Hamlet, Burton’s Hamlet, Gielgud’s Hamlet, Richardson’s, Berkoff’s, Kline’s, Hawkes’, Branagh’s, Cumberbatch’s…the list goes on. And we even speak with regret of the Hamlets that \u003cem>might have been\u003c/em>: Brando’s, Dean’s, Welles’. We dream of them all, if only to toss them aside as likely to have come up short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Hamlet will have none of it. The most definitive character of the Western canon is also the most elusive. Every attempt seems a gloss — an approximation of the real thing. And so Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> has always seemed more of an actor’s play than a director’s; more about an ambitious actor confronting an impossible role than the personal and political struggles of one royal family in Denmark. As a weeping teenager said to me after a rather pedestrian production, “we have lost a beautiful soul.” One might add, that we have lost all the souls determined to bring that soul to life. Enter the graveyard and behold the ghosts. It’s a crowded field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Jackson knows that. The director and conceptual wizard behind the Shotgun Players’ uplifting and weirdly affecting \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> once performed a version of the play, \u003cem>I am Hamlet\u003c/em>, in which Hamlet played all the roles himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, Jackson reverses the equation. Announcing before the performance begins to the audience that the actors have no idea who they’re going to play — and in fact no one does, not even the director himself — he invites the cast of seven on stage. The actors run out with the peppy bonhomie of game show contestants, line up in a row before us, and wait. Who will play Hamlet? And for that matter Claudius, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes? Jackson pulls the cast list out of Yorick’s skull and assigns the parts one by one. It’s a goofy, curiously intense moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11528061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11528061\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/1-1-e1461698736727-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"(From L to R) Beth Wilmurt, Cathleen Riddley, Nick Medina, El Beh, Kevin Clarke, David Sinaiko, and Megan Trout wait to be assigned their roles. Photo:\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/1-1-e1461698736727-800x444.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/1-1-e1461698736727-400x222.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/1-1-e1461698736727-768x426.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/1-1-e1461698736727-960x533.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/1-1-e1461698736727-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/1-1-e1461698736727-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/1-1-e1461698736727.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From L to R) Beth Wilmurt, Cathleen Riddley, Nick Medina, El Beh, Kevin Clarke, David Sinaiko, and Megan Trout wait to be assigned their roles. Photo: Pak Han.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You immediately notice that there isn’t a conventional Hamlet in the cast. They are a wonderfully eclectic bunch: men and women, a smattering of ages and races, and, if you follow Bay Area performers, even different acting styles. So the first move Jackson makes in this \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> is both to play up and side step the drama of playing Hamlet. There will be a confrontation between actor and role, but one unknown until the very last moment. And this is the rub: what is true for Hamlet will now be true for all the other roles as well. We are plunged into a democracy of infinite possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is that gray-haired man capable of playing the young and tragic Ophelia? Can that young woman possibly understand what it means to be Polonius, an aging stooge to the king? What would an African-American woman bring to Hamlet or Hamlet to her? Every role becomes a question and every cast member an uncertain answer. Even talent, at least how we normally perceive it, loses meaning in this production. Instead, the question becomes one of qualities: how does this particular person, unlikely or perfectly cast, transform the character and, most importantly, the play?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Medina, a revelation all three nights I saw him, opens up aspects of \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> that are often unrealized. I always thought of Gertrude as cold, not compassionate. Yet watch him tear up, not showily, when his character watches Ophelia go mad, or his shock when Gertrude realizes that Claudius has no feeling for her son. Here is a young man’s body, wild and forceful, giving subtle expression to the half-formed fears of a middle-aged woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11528072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11528072 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Hamlet\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/3-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Beth Wilmurt as Gertrude and Nick Medina as Claudius. Photo: Pak Han.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And on a different night that same body takes on Ophelia, so that when she goes mad, Medina unleashes a shocking male physicality into Ophelia’s rage. It feels as if she’s being played by a wrestler and it not only works, but it also feels true. We don’t lose the fact that Ophelia’s a young woman, but instead gain the expressive force of brute male strength. I thought he would destroy her costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other actors provide similar chameleon thrills. Kevin Clarke makes for a passionate and precise Hamlet. It’s a thrilling performance. And the next night, he brings those same qualities to Laertes and it unleashes a crazy energy into the production. Beth Wilmurt slips so easily into Polonius that you have to keep reminding yourself that the character is not a woman. So that when he warns Ophelia of the dangers in falling in love with Hamlet, you can’t help but feel that Wilmurt is talking to a younger version of herself — that she once was Ophelia, and ironically in this production, still might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play begins with a ghost. But see the play three times in a row as I did, and it feels as if the entire cast has a touch of the dead and missing about them. Wasn’t Clarke Hamlet’s father the day before he played Hamlet? Megan Trout’s commanding Claudius has strong traces of her equally regal Gertrude. In playing Polonius, Laertes, and Ophelia over successive nights, Cathleen Riddley sketches a beautiful portrait of a most unfortunate family, all victims of Hamlet’s rage. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“Don’t shoot! I’m not just another Latino kid who is about to cause some trouble.” Those are just of the few of the resounding lines in the youth theater production \u003cem>On the Hill,\u003c/em> which aims to spark a conversation about racial profiling, police shootings and the rapid displacement of Latinos from San Francisco. Presented by the Mission District-based arts organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.locobloco.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loco Bloco\u003c/a> and directed by playwright \u003ca href=\"http://www.paulsflores.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul S. Flores\u003c/a>, the play features 25 youth actors from Bay Area high schools and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Latino man in this community, you learn the problem is not only how people are looking at you, but how people are taught to look at you … your clothing, the color of your skin,” says 20-year-old David Calderon, who played the role of San Francisco native Alejandro “Alex” Nieto, who was shot and killed by San Francisco Police Department officers in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco’s District Attorney’s Office \u003c/a>determined the four police officers who fired 59 shots at 28-year-old Nieto acted lawfully, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the jury in a federal civil rights trial \u003c/a>also cleared the officers of any wrongdoing. But for some, the case is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an enduring symbol of troubling police violence and rising tensions\u003c/a> in gentrifying neighborhoods like the Mission, where the Latino population has decreased 27 percent between 2000 and 2013, according to the Census 2000 and American Community Survey 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you fight back? How do you claim your identity?” says playwright Flores, a respected youth educator. “That’s what these kids are doing in this play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/participate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11316580 noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11316580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"pARTicipate-button-400x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>After recognizing the fear and anger many neighborhood youth felt in response to Nieto’s death, Annie Jupiter-Jones, executive director of Loco Bloco, approached Flores to help create and direct \u003cem>On the Hill. \u003c/em>“We wanted to help create a space for healing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Rose, reading in her room, offers only silence — a ploy common for Emma, yet new to Hidge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Such begins the slow-burn tension that permeates Meghan Kennedy’s debut play at Redwood City’s \u003ca href=\"http://dragonproductions.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dragon Theatre\u003c/a>, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Too Much, Too Much, Too Many\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which offers a nuanced take on the towering effects of grief.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While director Nancy McClymont knew Dragon Theatre’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">intimate, 65-seat black box space was a great fit for the material, she was worried the heavy subject matter of Kennedy’s drama might not be a huge draw. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I didn’t know if 11 audiences would be interested enough in grief,” McClymont says. Instead, she was surprised to see how well the story connected with patrons. \u003c/span>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So many people have reached out to me to tell me their stories – how they were particularly touched by the play and why it mattered to them.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taking risks — in Redwood City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dragon Theatre prides itself finding receptive audiences for work that frequently involves taking creative chances, like its recent production of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lo Speziale\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an obscure Baroque opera by Franz Joseph Haydn that the company set in a squalid meth lab, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breaking Bad\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">-style.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On May 6, Dragon Theatre continues its season with \u003cem>When the Rain Stops Falling, \u003c/em>a family saga whose timeline stretches from 1959 to 2039. With a story that jumps between past, present and future, the plays explores whether we’re able to deviate from the past, or if we’re doomed to re-live patterns that seem to be embedded in our DNA.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The relatively daring programming choices are no mean feat for an arts organization located in downtown Redwood City — a place that has a small, burgeoning arts scene, but can hardly be considered a cultural metropolis. Yet it’s that healthy appetite for risk, coupled with a constant desire to highlight unsung narratives, that has helped Dragon Theatre to gain traction in the peninsula’s performance landscape. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being that type of a company in Redwood City — that alone is pretty unusual,” says Brad Erickson, executive director of the regional performing arts support organization, Theatre Bay Area. “I think they’re having an impact both in the field and the city in a way that’s pretty impressive for a relatively small company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11511676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11511676 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/KQED-Dragon-2-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Battcher (Emma) and W. 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While leading a then-nomadic company that essentially lived out of her car, Hagedorn hoped to build a space for her work in the middle of downtown Palo Alto. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce mixer, Hagedorn found someone willing to lease her space, which the director transformed into a 2500 square foot, 42-seat theater within walking distance of downtown Palo Alto’s busy University Avenue. “The main reason it was able to happen is because I really didn’t know what I was getting into,” Hagedorn says. “I really didn’t know what it all meant. I just knew that I would need to learn a lot.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hagedorn felt her company had maxed out its revenue potential in the tiny University Avenue space. So in 2012, she moved Dragon Theatre to its present location in Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The local theatrical landscape\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The venue is located a block from the historic Fox Theatre, which periodically houses musicals produced by the local musicals producer Broadway by the Bay. Redwood City Community Theatre, another nearby company, is similarly focused on crowd-pleasing fare. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a plan in the works for a long time to really encourage and support the presence of art and culture downtown,” says Alicia Jeffrey, executive artistic director for Broadway By the Bay. “With the success that we see, and the success and interest that Dragon sees, I think it’s paying off. I think we’re lucky to have each other in that one block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By contrast, Dragon Theatre consistently tackles edgier material — Hagedorn mentions Shotgun Players in Berkeley and Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco as companies with a similar intention of creating high quality productions whose stories, as she puts it, stay “off the beaten path.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, taking creative risks is never stress-free. With an annual operating budget of $350,000, Dragon Theatre is currently producing eight shows per season to maintain its space. 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They ain’t human.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first act is filled with such moments — a chorus of used car salesmen; a corrupt campground proprietor; a man returning from California to Oklahoma with too much knowledge to seem sane; agricultural inspectors so disarmed by how sick the Joads are that they forget to do their jobs. These aren’t afterthoughts or filler, but rather the heart of the drama. And director Michael Socrates Moran and the Ubuntu team make it all work by closely matching actor to role, prop to function, and their vision to their resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the intermission, though, the production starts to strain and the high level of theatrical invention falls to the wayside. It’s partly that Galati’s adaptation becomes more conventionally dramatic and starts to require more standard notions of skill and talent. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Artistic vision is a tricky thing. It has almost nothing to do with money, or skill, or talent, or anything that you can properly quantify. Like pornography — to borrow Judge John M. Woolsey’s famous defense of James Joyce’s \u003cem>Ulysses — \u003c/em>you know it when you see it. And where artistic vision might be difficult to get a hold of or define, it’s impossible not to see its transformative effects on everything it touches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This puts us in a quandary in looking at \u003ca href=\"http://ubuntutheaterproject\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubuntu Theater Project\u003c/a>’s production of Frank Galati’s stage adaption of John Steinbeck’s \u003cem>The Grapes of Wrath\u003c/em>. It is at moments an amazing production, and yet it falters and sputters too many times to be fully successful. It has a vision of the theater and the world that’s admirable and sharp. You feel it build in momentum during the long and involving first act, and lose focus and purpose during the more conventionally dramatic second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ubuntu specializes in site-specific performance, and even though the company’s production of \u003cem>The Grapes of Wrath\u003c/em> isn’t staged on a road or in a farm encampment, there is something about Oakland City Church’s cavernous basement/gymnasium that rings true to the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first the set seems no more than random bits of wood and industrial trashcans that you might find scattered around any busy and overtaxed church. Then some actors wander out and gather around a metal can that emits a warm glow of orange light. You know the scene — it’s stood for poverty and desolation in countless plays and movies. And yet here in this church, at this time of great economic disparity and disruption, the normally hackneyed visual image becomes compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off to the side you hear voices singing a hymn. And from a pair of visibly obvious speakers mounted on either end of the stage, there are sound effects — wind, rain, and a sense of vast emptiness (if the last can be captured in sound). The soundscape lends the production an immediate realism that, when you think about it, isn’t realistic at all. The sounds serve to isolate and focus our attention in subtle, simple, and sophisticated ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large, 25-strong ensemble keeps things focused. There’s no overacting, only well-defined actions — wandering, gathering around a fire, singing. This is especially true during the first act, when the supporting and bit players are exemplary in their ability to carry out a vision of a world lost to a vicious and state-sanctioned poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11488199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11488199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Grapes6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Francisco as Noah Joad in Unbutu Theater Project's 'The Grapes of Wrath.' 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The initial meeting between the newly paroled Tom Joad (William Hartfield) and the fallen minister Jim Casey (William Thomas Hodgson) is notable for its absence of staginess. Hartfield and Hodgson — both excellent — give their lines in an almost perfunctory manner. And because of that we pay attention to the moment, even in its seeming insignificance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most large cast productions, you don’t just focus on the leads, but all the roles — even the smallest. There’s an astounding exchange between a gas station owner (Timothy Redmond) and his attendant (Rolanda Bell) that is essentially a debate over whether the Joads are human or not. Without straining at all, Redmond and Bell engage in a chilling off-handed conversation that captures how easy it is to miss the humanity of the poor — “them goddamn Okies got no sense and no feeling. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>So you’ve gotten tickets to shows by all the heavy-hitters — the San Francisco Ballet, the American Conservatory Theater, the San Francisco Opera, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Broadway tour presenter SHN. Your date is impressed. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Now, here’s how to make him or her admire your cultural with-it-ness even more: go experience something that’s a little — or a lot — off-center. Below are some local performance gems to feed your arts-going habit in the coming weeks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Now through Saturday, Apr. 30: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJpLjq6XNE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Colossal\u003c/em> \u003c/a>at SF Playhouse, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAn arresting, intensely physical drama by Andrew Hinderaker which tells the story of an athletic young man who turns his back on a promising ballet career to pursue his true passion — pro football — only to land shortly thereafter in a wheelchair after taking a fall during a game. Featuring a strong cast of buff, male actors and fluid direction from John Tracy, \u003cem>Colossal\u003c/em> epitomizes the feisty, high quality theater produced by SF Playhouse. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/03/23/sf-playhouses-winning-football-drama-colossal-scores-a-touchdown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s review\u003c/a> here. And watch SF Playhouse’s preview below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colossal at San Francisco Playhouse\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/c85NCK7D-Lg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Now through Sunday, May 15: Shotgun Players’ \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/hamlet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> \u003c/a>at Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>This unusual production of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy directed by one of the Bay Area’s hottest directors, Mark Jackson, takes the line “the play’s the thing” as its starting point for an exploration of the myriad different ways the drama can be staged. Right before each performance, cast members draw lots out of Yorick’s skull to decide which role they’ll be playing that night. They have five minutes to prepare, then it’s lights down. This two-hour version of \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> artfully edited by Jackson features six supremely talented actors and is expected to continue to run in repertory for an entire after its initial run as part of Shotgun Players’ 25th anniversary celebrations. The company is selling special ticket packages to encourage audiences to experience three different casting combinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 161870536 w=640h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Apr. 14 – Saturday, Jun. 11: Thrillpeddlers’ \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://thrillpeddlers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Untamed Stage: Weimar Berlin Kabarett\u003c/a>\u003c/em> at The Hypnodrome, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis sexy-scrappy musical by Scrumbly Koldewyn, founding member of The Cockettes (a famed San Francisco underground theater troupe of the 1960s and ’70s), takes its name from “The Untamed Stage,” a Berlin hot spot founded in 1921. Through vaudeville skits and songs, the show features some of the Bay Area’s most captivating drag artists and touches on such universal subjects as belonging, fascism, and “a cow that becomes increasingly self-aware and might change the course of history.” And if you’ve never been to The Hypnodrome before, this is an experience not to be missed, as the theater — home to SF’s \u003cem>grand guignol\u003c/em> theater company Thrillpeddlers — is one of the city’s hidden treasures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THRILLPEDDLERS : The Untamed Stage\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/XSq6mIEgEZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Apr. 14 – Saturday, Apr. 30: \u003ca href=\"http://cubacaribe.org/festival12/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CubaCaribe Festival\u003c/a> at Dance Mission Theater and Brava Theater in San Francisco, and Laney College Theater, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNow in its 12th year, this vivid annual celebration of Caribbean performing arts turns its attention to Cuba, a country immersed in dance and music. Over three weekends, “Cuba On My Mind” explores the massive influence of Cuban culture on the rest of the world. The opening weekend at Dance Mission Theater features a mixed program, including Aguas Dance Company and Ballet Folklorico Odduara. Week two shifts to Laney College in Oakland with performances focused on more contemporary dance styles by the likes of Alayo Dance Company and Nicole Klaymoon’s Embodiment Project. The festival returns to San Francisco at the end of the month with a show that demonstrates the spread of Cuban ideas throughout the world, featuring Brazilian capoeira from Abada Capoeira SF, Mexican dance by Los Lupeños de San Jose, and other virtuostic groups. Here’s a video featuring Alayo Dance Company from a previous CubaCaribe Festival:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alayo Dance Company/ Ramon Ramos Alayo- Selected Work\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Iw3n7g0Ffjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday, Apr. 20 – Wednesday, Jul. 20: David Gerard’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/david-gerard-an-evening-of-magic-and-mindreading-tickets-19957760198?aff=pfcal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game Night: An Evening of Magic and Mindreading\u003c/a>\u003c/em> at PianoFight, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPianoFight is one of the core offbeat performance hubs in downtown San Francisco, an exciting and relatively new spot to grab a drink and dinner, and check out a variety of off-beat performances, like plays by underground theater companies, burlesque shows and standup comedy. Clever clogs mentalist David Gerard, who regularly sells out the venue, is back with a new show created specially for PianoFight. \u003cem>Game Night\u003c/em> fuses mindreading with magic. The artist has chops on both fronts. Last year, for instance, Gerard baffled and delighted audiences by swallowing needles and thread and regurgitating threaded needles. Watch Gerard in action here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Gerard Live\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/z8rctJo1DAU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Now through Sunday, Apr. 24: Ubuntu Theater Project presents \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ubuntutheaterproject.com/our-season/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Grapes of Wrath\u003c/a>\u003c/em> at Oakland City Church, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nUbuntu Theater does something that’s hard to do: the small, ever-inventive company manages to produce socially conscious theater without thumping people over the head with a didactic message. The current season, presciently titled “Threatened Homes,” offers a broad and deep perspective on the idea of displacement, encompassing everything from a take on Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Othello\u003c/em> that focuses on the title character’s conversion from Islam to Christianity, to \u003cem>Más\u003c/em>, a docudrama by Milta Ortiz about the Chicano community in Tucson, Arizona. Up next, the company’s take on Frank Galati’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s famous 1939 novel about an impoverished Oklahoma family’s arduous journey to California. If Ubuntu’s memorable recent staging of Clifford Odets’ classic workers’ rights drama, \u003cem>Waiting for Lefty\u003c/em>, set in a disused Oakland auto repair shop is anything to go by, this new production is very much worth checking out. Watch the directors of the company talk about \u003cem>Lefty\u003c/em> and other things here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2015 Festival - Keep The Buzz Brewing!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/1zQqf4VXt_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, May 5 – Sunday, May 8: Cal Performances presents \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calperformances.org/performances/2015-16/theater/edgar-oliver-helen-edgar.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen & Edgar\u003c/a>\u003c/em> at Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNew York City poet, playwright and ranconteur Edgar Oliver heads to Berkeley to share his brilliantly whacko story about growing up in Savannah, Georgia, with his sister Helen and their spectacularly eccentric mother. Oliver is a veteran performer with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://themoth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Moth\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. The Peabody Award-winning radio series and live storytelling project helped to incubate this one man show which \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> describes as “utterly absorbing and unexpectedly moving.” Watch Oliver tell one of his childhood inspired monologues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Moth Presents Edgar Oliver: Apron Strings of Savannah\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/GNJWHwTUvwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, Apr. 23: Stanford Live presents AXIS Dance Company’s \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/april-2016/axis-dance-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>To Go Again\u003c/em> \u003c/a>at the Bing Concert Hall, Stanford\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe great Bay Area-based choreographer \u003ca href=\"http://joegoode.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Goode\u003c/a> teams up with one of the country’s seminal contemporary dance companies, AXIS, based in Oakland, to present a new work around the theme of war veterans returning home from the front lines. Like the soldiers portrayed in \u003cem>To Go Again\u003c/em>, AXIS dancers know what it means to confront challenges because many of them have physical disabilities and move on stage in their wheelchairs. The piece is part of Stanford Live’s series exploring war, return and recovery. Goode’s is the final work on a bill that also includes \u003cem>Dix Minutes Plus Tard (Ten Minutes Later)\u003c/em> by Sonya Delwaide and Marc Brew’s \u003cem>Divide\u003c/em>. Watch members of AXIS perform on the hit TV show \u003cem>So You Think You Can Dance\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AXIS Dance on SYTYCD 2012- Changing Dance and Disability with Duets and Wheelchairs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/S7L7obgfb18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, Apr. 14 – Sunday, May. 8: Howard Brenton’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.marintheatre.org/productions/anne-boleyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne Boleyn\u003c/a> at Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>The Other Boleyn Girl\u003c/em> to \u003cem>Wolf Hall\u003c/em>, audiences in this country can’t get enough of the period in English history when women in high places lost their heads and men vied over the size of their cod pieces and ruffs. Marin Theatre Company’s west coast premiere of a 2010 play by Howard Brenton draws us in with the former: The drama begins with the arrival of the ghost of King Henry VIII’s late wife, Anne Boleyn, lugging her severed proboscis in a blood-stained bag. Brenton’s revisionist history casts Henry VIII’s devoutly protestant second wife as an active player in the affairs of the state rather than merely a sorry victim. Watch the cast rehearse the show at Grace Cathedral:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marin Theatre Company's “Anne Boleyn” rehearsal at Grace Cathedral\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/lxCA-k7TGGQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, Apr. 29 – Sunday, May 1: Opera Parallele presents Peter Maxwell Davies’ \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://operaparallele.org/the-lighthouse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lighthouse\u003c/a>\u003c/em> at Z Space, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOpera Parallele is one of the most innovative contemporary opera companies around, producing edgy work like the recent jazz opera, \u003cem>Champion\u003c/em>, based on the tragic life of the gay heavyweight prizefighter Emile Griffith. The company’s latest offering is a ghost story of a chamber opera inspired by real-life events about the mysterious disappearance of three fisherman stationed at a remote lighthouse off the coast of Scotland. Composer Peter Maxwell Davies’ rhythmic musical score calls for three virtuostic male singers (in this case, Robert Orth, David Cushing and Thomas Glenn) and 12 musicians playing some instruments not typically employed in opera productions like the banjo, guitar and an out-of-tune piano. Check out the preview here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Lighthouse - Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/gU0dMmUvkv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, May 5 – Sunday, May 8: Liss Fain Dance presents \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ybca.org/liss-fain-dance-tacit-consent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tacit Consent\u003c/a>\u003c/em> at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has a new mission, emblazoned on billboards around the city — “The Center for the Art of Doing Something About It.” In addition to following through on this aim with civics programming that asked artists and other thinkers to go deep into the most pressing social and political issues of our day, YBCA extends this mission into its collaborations with arts organizations. Such is the case with Liss Fain Dance, which presents an immersive world-premiere sound, video and performance art installation about surveillance and ambiguity. You experience the piece by wondering through four different rooms of the set. Get a taste of the company’s approach here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJpLjq6XNE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>So you’ve gotten tickets to shows by all the heavy-hitters — the San Francisco Ballet, the American Conservatory Theater, the San Francisco Opera, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Broadway tour presenter SHN. Your date is impressed. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Now, here’s how to make him or her admire your cultural with-it-ness even more: go experience something that’s a little — or a lot — off-center. Below are some local performance gems to feed your arts-going habit in the coming weeks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Now through Saturday, Apr. 30: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJpLjq6XNE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Colossal\u003c/em> \u003c/a>at SF Playhouse, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAn arresting, intensely physical drama by Andrew Hinderaker which tells the story of an athletic young man who turns his back on a promising ballet career to pursue his true passion — pro football — only to land shortly thereafter in a wheelchair after taking a fall during a game. Featuring a strong cast of buff, male actors and fluid direction from John Tracy, \u003cem>Colossal\u003c/em> epitomizes the feisty, high quality theater produced by SF Playhouse. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/03/23/sf-playhouses-winning-football-drama-colossal-scores-a-touchdown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s review\u003c/a> here. And watch SF Playhouse’s preview below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colossal at San Francisco Playhouse\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/c85NCK7D-Lg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Now through Sunday, May 15: Shotgun Players’ \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/hamlet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> \u003c/a>at Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>This unusual production of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy directed by one of the Bay Area’s hottest directors, Mark Jackson, takes the line “the play’s the thing” as its starting point for an exploration of the myriad different ways the drama can be staged. Right before each performance, cast members draw lots out of Yorick’s skull to decide which role they’ll be playing that night. They have five minutes to prepare, then it’s lights down. This two-hour version of \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em> artfully edited by Jackson features six supremely talented actors and is expected to continue to run in repertory for an entire after its initial run as part of Shotgun Players’ 25th anniversary celebrations. The company is selling special ticket packages to encourage audiences to experience three different casting combinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Over three weekends, “Cuba On My Mind” explores the massive influence of Cuban culture on the rest of the world. The opening weekend at Dance Mission Theater features a mixed program, including Aguas Dance Company and Ballet Folklorico Odduara. Week two shifts to Laney College in Oakland with performances focused on more contemporary dance styles by the likes of Alayo Dance Company and Nicole Klaymoon’s Embodiment Project. The festival returns to San Francisco at the end of the month with a show that demonstrates the spread of Cuban ideas throughout the world, featuring Brazilian capoeira from Abada Capoeira SF, Mexican dance by Los Lupeños de San Jose, and other virtuostic groups. 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Clever clogs mentalist David Gerard, who regularly sells out the venue, is back with a new show created specially for PianoFight. \u003cem>Game Night\u003c/em> fuses mindreading with magic. The artist has chops on both fronts. Last year, for instance, Gerard baffled and delighted audiences by swallowing needles and thread and regurgitating threaded needles. 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Like the soldiers portrayed in \u003cem>To Go Again\u003c/em>, AXIS dancers know what it means to confront challenges because many of them have physical disabilities and move on stage in their wheelchairs. The piece is part of Stanford Live’s series exploring war, return and recovery. Goode’s is the final work on a bill that also includes \u003cem>Dix Minutes Plus Tard (Ten Minutes Later)\u003c/em> by Sonya Delwaide and Marc Brew’s \u003cem>Divide\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cp>No more Guy Noir, Private Eye. No more tales of Dusty and Lefty, the luckless cowboys. And no more weekly “News From Lake Wobegon,” the imaginary Minnesota town famous for strong women, good-looking men and above-average children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those signature comedy sketches will vanish from the airwaves when humorist and best-selling author Garrison Keillor retires as host of his popular public radio show, \u003cem>A Prairie Home Companion\u003c/em>, this summer. After Keillor, whose sonorous voice and witty writing entertained millions of listeners for four decades, steps down, mandolin ace Chris Thile of the bands Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek will step in as the first full-time replacement host in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought that the show should press the restart and not try to replicate what it has evolved into,” Keillor explained, “but go back to the beginning and revive itself as a music show with comedy add-ons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some things won’t change, Keillor and Thile say. The show’s name will remain \u003cem>A Prairie Home Companion\u003c/em> (for now), its home base will stay at the 1,000-seat, elegantly restored Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul, and the live show will keep its two-hour Saturday evening time slot. Keillor says he will remain as executive producer and “a remote, benevolent gray eminence who phones in his thoughts every so often.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Garrison created a template that I think is immortal,” an effervescent Thile said during a recent interview on the Fitzgerald stage. “It doesn’t feel like any kind of constraint. It’s like a license. I feel like I have my license to go and make some good radio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the shows Thile guest-hosted in January and February are any indication, listeners can expect a hipper batch of musical performers. Singer-songwriter Ben Folds, alt-country singer Brandi Carlile, multi-instrumentalist and whistler Andrew Bird and Paul Simon — perhaps the biggest musical name to ever perform on “Prairie Home” — were among the guests. Thile just had to pick up the phone and see if Simon was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keillor praises Thile’s musical connections as well as his respect for old-time bluegrass music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me if anybody was meant to host and produce a musical variety show that has real intensity and integrity, it’s him,” Keillor said in a telephone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 35, Thile is three years older than when Keillor, now 73, started the show in 1974. The sandy-haired singer gushes when talking about succeeding Keillor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prospect of getting to make things for people on a weekly basis … is beyond compare. It’s what I love to do,” said Thile, who began listening to “Prairie Home” as a boy. Thile was 15 when he made his first appearance on the show in 1996 and has made a dozen or more visits since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of Keillor’s weekly monologue about Norwegian bachelor farmers and other residents of his fictional hometown of Lake Wobegon, Thile plans to write a new song every week that may take into account who is on the show. “Prairie Home” pianist and composer Richard Dworsky will remain, and Thile plans to bring back regular performers Tim Russell, Sue Scott and sound-effects guy Fred Newman but perhaps pair them with guest actors or comedians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prairie Home” undoubtedly will lose its Minnesota worldview with Anoka native Keillor gone. Thile was born in San Diego, grew up in Idyllwild in the San Jacinto mountains of Southern California and has lived in Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; San Francisco and New York. He now lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, actress Claire Coffee of the TV show \u003cem>Grimm\u003c/em>, and their young son. Thile plans to stay in Portland, where \u003cem>Grimm\u003c/em> is filmed, and commute for “Prairie Home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thile said the new “Prairie Home” will reflect “the increasingly diffuse experience that most people have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keillor will tape his final “Prairie Home” on July 1 at the Hollywood Bowl for broadcast the following day in its regular time slot. Thile makes his debut as replacement host Oct. 15 at the Fitzgerald. A 13-show season is planned at first, about half a normal 26-show run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big part of the show’s revenue comes from stations that pay to carry it. Bill Thomas, director of radio for Prairie Public Broadcasting in North Dakota, said he plans to sign up for the new season to give Thile a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suspect a lot of people will say they don’t like it, it’s not Garrison Keillor,” Thomas said. “Of course it won’t be. We’ll just have to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Thile and Keillor say public radio stations need to rally around the new show. “Prairie Home” has a weekly audience of more than 3.5 million listeners on 700 public radio stations in the U.S. When Keillor originally tried to retire in 1987, a substitute show, \u003cem>Good Evening\u003c/em>, hosted by Noah Adams of public radio’s \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, lasted just a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think (“Prairie Home”) needs to be handed off to somebody and not just go into rerun purgatory,” Keillor said. “I really think this guy (Thile) brings something to public radio that public radio needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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