Performing arts
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Noon Concert: University Wind Ensemble
Performing Arts - Music | March 1 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
University Wind Ensemble
Robert Calonico, director
MASLANKA Symphony No. 4
SPITTAL Scherzo: Cat and Mouse
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities, the Department of Music presents a series of free weekly concerts each semester in Hertz Hall. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by those on... More >
Berkeley Talks: Marlon James
Performing Arts - Other | March 1 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Jamaican author Marlon James, whose monumental latest novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, earned him the prestigious Man Booker Prize, visits for a discussion with Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks as part of the Berkeley Talks speaker series. Praised for his "vaulting ambition and prodigious talent" (The New York Times), James will discuss his writing process, as well as the themes that... More >
Friday, March 3, 2017
Polaroid Stories: TDPS Theater Production
Performing Arts - Theater | March 3 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Based on real life stories of street kids, and drawing from Ovid’s Metamorphoses myths, Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories blends poetry and profanity to explore how young people pushed to the edge of society come to understand their lives amid anger, love both lost and found, violence, homelessness, ambition, and addiction.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Performing Arts - Dance | March 3 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
The "unspeakably talented" (Calgary Herald) all-male ballet troupe affectionately known as the "Trocks" traffics deliriously and artfully in "the ridiculous and the sublime" (Financial Times). The troupe performs a sophisticated form of ballet parody, en travesti, and recently celebrated 40 years as an internationally adored cultural phenomenon.
starting at $36
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Performing Arts - Dance | March 4 | 2 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
The "unspeakably talented" (Calgary Herald) all-male ballet troupe affectionately known as the "Trocks" traffics deliriously and artfully in "the ridiculous and the sublime" (Financial Times). The troupe performs a sophisticated form of ballet parody, en travesti, and recently celebrated 40 years as an internationally adored cultural phenomenon.
starting at $36
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Takács Quartet: Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets
Performing Arts - Music | March 4 | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
A momentous occasion! Following our tradition of exploring cycles of music in context, we present a cornerstone of classical music and one of humanity's greatest achievements.
starting at $72
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Performing Arts - Dance | March 4 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
The "unspeakably talented" (Calgary Herald) all-male ballet troupe affectionately known as the "Trocks" traffics deliriously and artfully in "the ridiculous and the sublime" (Financial Times). The troupe performs a sophisticated form of ballet parody, en travesti, and recently celebrated 40 years as an internationally adored cultural phenomenon.
starting at $36
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Polaroid Stories: TDPS Theater Production
Performing Arts - Theater | March 4 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Based on real life stories of street kids, and drawing from Ovid’s Metamorphoses myths, Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories blends poetry and profanity to explore how young people pushed to the edge of society come to understand their lives amid anger, love both lost and found, violence, homelessness, ambition, and addiction.
No children under 18.
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Polaroid Stories: TDPS Theater Production
Performing Arts - Theater | March 5 | 2-4 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Based on real life stories of street kids, and drawing from Ovid’s Metamorphoses myths, Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories blends poetry and profanity to explore how young people pushed to the edge of society come to understand their lives amid anger, love both lost and found, violence, homelessness, ambition, and addiction.
Takács Quartet: Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets
Performing Arts - Music | March 5 | 3 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
A momentous occasion! Following our tradition of exploring cycles of music in context, we present a cornerstone of classical music and one of humanity's greatest achievements.
starting at $72
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Balé Folclórico da Bahia: Herança Sagrada
Performing Arts - Dance | March 5 | 7 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A rare opportunity to see Brazil's premiere dance and music ensemble. With Herança Sagrada (Sacred Heritage), the 32 dancers, instrumentalists, and singers of the acclaimed folkloric dance company Balé Folclórico da Bahia honor the African roots of Brazilian culture. Through elaborate choreography and costumes, the troupe explores the music and dance of the Candomblé religion, the sinuous martial... More >
starting at $30
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Noon Concert: University Gospel Chorus
Performing Arts - Music | March 8 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
University Gospel Chorus
D. Mark Wilson, director
"One More River to Cross: Water Metaphors in Gospel Music"
Join the UC Berkeley Gospel Chorus for an afternoon of gospel music highlighting the importance of water as a symbol and metaphor for finding places of freedom, justice and peace
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance... More >
New Play Reading Series: “fireflies” by Philana Omorotionmwan
Performing Arts - Theater | March 8 | 4-6 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Room 4B
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Fireflies (4F)
It’s twilight time.
And the small, winged things–
like spiders and roaches and fireflies–
have begun to stir and search for light.
Will Then-Self find hers before she dies?
Or will Now-Self find other ways to survive?
Fireflies is an exploration of one girl’s longing and search for intimacy through the lives of insects. Join us for a reading of a new work-in-progress by... More >
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Story Hour in the Library featuring Joyce Carol Oates
Reading - Literary | March 9 | 5-6 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Joyce Carol Oates
Story Hour in the Library is a monthly prose reading series held in UC Berkeley's Morrison Library. In March the program features author Joyce Carol Oates.
Friday, March 10, 2017
Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre: Betroffenheit
Performing Arts - Theater | March 10 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A collaboration between two of Canada's most renowned and imaginative companies, choreographer Crystal Pite's Kidd Pivot and playwright/performer Jonathon Young's Electric Company Theatre, Betroffenheit is a gripping and emotionally visceral exploration of psychological trauma. Named after a German word that loosely translates as shock, bewilderment, or impact, this "rare and staggering" (Globe... More >
starting at $30
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Polaroid Stories: TDPS Theater Production
Performing Arts - Theater | March 10 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Based on real life stories of street kids, and drawing from Ovid’s Metamorphoses myths, Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories blends poetry and profanity to explore how young people pushed to the edge of society come to understand their lives amid anger, love both lost and found, violence, homelessness, ambition, and addiction.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: Foreign Affairs: Characters of the Baroque
Performing Arts - Music | March 11 | 8 p.m. | First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
The esteemed Berlin-based early music ensemble returns with an eclectic and exuberant program of Baroque works showcasing the ensemble's finesse at navigating French, German, English, and Italian repertoire. "The orchestra's level of virtuosity, ensemble and interpretive cohesion made the seventeen musicians seem to breathe and think as one" (The Washington Post).
starting at $42
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre: Betroffenheit
Performing Arts - Theater | March 11 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A collaboration between two of Canada's most renowned and imaginative companies, choreographer Crystal Pite's Kidd Pivot and playwright/performer Jonathon Young's Electric Company Theatre, Betroffenheit is a gripping and emotionally visceral exploration of psychological trauma. Named after a German word that loosely translates as shock, bewilderment, or impact, this "rare and staggering" (Globe... More >
starting at $30
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Polaroid Stories: TDPS Theater Production
Performing Arts - Theater | March 11 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Based on real life stories of street kids, and drawing from Ovid’s Metamorphoses myths, Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories blends poetry and profanity to explore how young people pushed to the edge of society come to understand their lives amid anger, love both lost and found, violence, homelessness, ambition, and addiction.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Polaroid Stories: TDPS Theater Production
Performing Arts - Theater | March 12 | 2-4 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Based on real life stories of street kids, and drawing from Ovid’s Metamorphoses myths, Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories blends poetry and profanity to explore how young people pushed to the edge of society come to understand their lives amid anger, love both lost and found, violence, homelessness, ambition, and addiction.
Jeffrey Kahane
Performing Arts - Music | March 12 | 3 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Jeffrey Kahane's recitals consistently enthrall: here he matches new and recent works by young composers, including his son Gabriel Kahane and Timo Andres—whose work was last heard in February 2016 in a premiere by the Takács Quartet—with Schubert's opulent Fantasie sonata, which Schumann hailed as Schubert's "most perfect in form and conception."
starting at $42
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Performing Arts - Dance | March 14 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A pillar in the American arts landscape for more than a half century, the revered Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual residency, with a bold mix of new and recent works as well as timeless Ailey classics, including his unforgettable and uplifting Revelations. "Restraint and release, spirituality and energy: they are all there in Ailey's masterpiece, Revelations" (Financial... More >
starting at $36
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Noon Concert: University Chorus and Chamber Chorus
Performing Arts - Music | March 15 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Choral Collage Concert
University Chorus, Chamber Chorus, & Perfect Fifth
Nikolas Nackley, Dr. Magen Solomon, & Steven Lauterwasser, directors
Featuring works of Fauré, Byrd, Howells, Brahms, Rautavaara, and Irving Berlin
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities, the Department of Music presents a series of free weekly... More >
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Performing Arts - Dance | March 15 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A pillar in the American arts landscape for more than a half century, the revered Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual residency, with a bold mix of new and recent works as well as timeless Ailey classics, including his unforgettable and uplifting Revelations. "Restraint and release, spirituality and energy: they are all there in Ailey's masterpiece, Revelations" (Financial... More >
starting at $36
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Performing Arts - Dance | March 16 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A pillar in the American arts landscape for more than a half century, the revered Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual residency, with a bold mix of new and recent works as well as timeless Ailey classics, including his unforgettable and uplifting Revelations. "Restraint and release, spirituality and energy: they are all there in Ailey's masterpiece, Revelations" (Financial... More >
starting at $36
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: works by REGUCERA, DEBUSSY, and BERLIOZ
Performing Arts - Music | March 16 – 18, 2017 every day | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra
David Milnes, music director
Amadeus REGUCERA Skin, stretched upon the frame (World Premiere)
DEBUSSY Iberia
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Established in 1923, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra is the oldest performing arts ensemble in the University of California system. Throughout its long history, the orchestra has provided students and other members of... More >
$20 General Admission, $15 non-UCB students, seniors, current/retired UCB faculty and staff, groups 10+, $5 UCB students
Buy tickets online or by calling 510.642.9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Love and Pride: A New Musical
Performing Arts - Theater | March 16 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
The UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies presents LOVE AND PRIDE, a new musical by TDPS student Sy Bocalbos Jordan that addresses identity, gender and dialogue.
Friday, March 17, 2017
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: works by REGUCERA, DEBUSSY, and BERLIOZ
Performing Arts - Music | March 16 – 18, 2017 every day | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra
David Milnes, music director
Amadeus REGUCERA Skin, stretched upon the frame (World Premiere)
DEBUSSY Iberia
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Established in 1923, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra is the oldest performing arts ensemble in the University of California system. Throughout its long history, the orchestra has provided students and other members of... More >
$20 General Admission, $15 non-UCB students, seniors, current/retired UCB faculty and staff, groups 10+, $5 UCB students
Buy tickets online or by calling 510.642.9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Love and Pride: A New Musical
Performing Arts - Theater | March 17 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
The UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies presents LOVE AND PRIDE, a new musical by TDPS student Sy Bocalbos Jordan that addresses identity, gender and dialogue.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Performing Arts - Dance | March 17 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A pillar in the American arts landscape for more than a half century, the revered Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual residency, with a bold mix of new and recent works as well as timeless Ailey classics, including his unforgettable and uplifting Revelations. "Restraint and release, spirituality and energy: they are all there in Ailey's masterpiece, Revelations" (Financial... More >
starting at $40
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Performing Arts - Dance | March 18 | 2 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A pillar in the American arts landscape for more than a half century, the revered Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual residency, with a bold mix of new and recent works as well as timeless Ailey classics, including his unforgettable and uplifting Revelations. "Restraint and release, spirituality and energy: they are all there in Ailey's masterpiece, Revelations" (Financial... More >
starting at $40
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Performing Arts - Dance | March 18 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A pillar in the American arts landscape for more than a half century, the revered Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual residency, with a bold mix of new and recent works as well as timeless Ailey classics, including his unforgettable and uplifting Revelations. "Restraint and release, spirituality and energy: they are all there in Ailey's masterpiece, Revelations" (Financial... More >
starting at $40
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Love and Pride: A New Musical
Performing Arts - Theater | March 18 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
The UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies presents LOVE AND PRIDE, a new musical by TDPS student Sy Bocalbos Jordan that addresses identity, gender and dialogue.
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: works by REGUCERA, DEBUSSY, and BERLIOZ
Performing Arts - Music | March 16 – 18, 2017 every day | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
University Symphony Orchestra
David Milnes, music director
Amadeus REGUCERA Skin, stretched upon the frame (World Premiere)
DEBUSSY Iberia
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Established in 1923, the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra is the oldest performing arts ensemble in the University of California system. Throughout its long history, the orchestra has provided students and other members of... More >
$20 General Admission, $15 non-UCB students, seniors, current/retired UCB faculty and staff, groups 10+, $5 UCB students
Buy tickets online or by calling 510.642.9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Love and Pride: A New Musical
Performing Arts - Theater | March 19 | 2-4 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
The UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies presents LOVE AND PRIDE, a new musical by TDPS student Sy Bocalbos Jordan that addresses identity, gender and dialogue.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Performing Arts - Dance | March 19 | 3 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A pillar in the American arts landscape for more than a half century, the revered Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual residency, with a bold mix of new and recent works as well as timeless Ailey classics, including his unforgettable and uplifting Revelations. "Restraint and release, spirituality and energy: they are all there in Ailey's masterpiece, Revelations" (Financial... More >
starting at $40
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Miah Persson / Florian Boesch / Malcolm Martineau
Performing Arts - Music | March 19 | 3 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
The sumptuous and richly colored voice of Swedish soprano Miah Persson joins with that of Austrian baritone Florian Boesch and insightful pianist Malcom Martineau (always a favorite at Cal Performances), for a program of Schumann's haunting songs. "Boesch doesn't just sing this music, he inhabits it to the hilt" (The Independent, London).
starting at $42
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Noon Concert: University Baroque Ensemble
Performing Arts - Music | March 22 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities, the Department of Music presents a series of free weekly concerts each semester in Hertz Hall. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by those on campus and in the wider community.... More >
Arts in the Afternoon: Chamber Music by Student Members of the University Symphony
Performing Arts - Music | March 22 | 4-6 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club, Lucy Ward Stebbins Lounge
Student Members of the University Symphony perform varied works including pieces by J.S. Bach, Pytor Ilyich, Rebecca Clarke and Zoltan Kodaly. Students are under the direction of String Coach Leighton Fong.
RSVP by calling Front Desk at 510-642-4175, or by emailing Front Desk at womensfacultyclub@gmail.com by March 21.
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Performing Arts - Theater | March 22 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Direct from the United Kingdom and making its West Coast debut, Britain's acclaimed Filter Theatre, "a company blessed with wit, style, and a touch of magic" (Daily Telegraph, London), presents its breakneck and explosive production of Shakespeare's masterwork of romance, satire, and mistaken identity. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Filter's Twelfth Night enlists a cast... More >
starting at $76
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Thursday, March 23, 2017
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Performing Arts - Theater | March 23 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Direct from the United Kingdom and making its West Coast debut, Britain's acclaimed Filter Theatre, "a company blessed with wit, style, and a touch of magic" (Daily Telegraph, London), presents its breakneck and explosive production of Shakespeare's masterwork of romance, satire, and mistaken identity. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Filter's Twelfth Night enlists a cast... More >
starting at $76
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Friday, March 24, 2017
Mongolian Throat-singing Concert
Performing Arts - Music | March 24 | 7 p.m. | International House
KHUSUGTUN is an internationally revered performing group that performs traditional music from Mongolia, the home of Chinggis Khan. They are especially renowned for their a capella arrangements using “khöömei” or “throat-singing.”
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/khusugtun-concert-tickets-31247882257?aff=eac2
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Performing Arts - Theater | March 24 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Direct from the United Kingdom and making its West Coast debut, Britain's acclaimed Filter Theatre, "a company blessed with wit, style, and a touch of magic" (Daily Telegraph, London), presents its breakneck and explosive production of Shakespeare's masterwork of romance, satire, and mistaken identity. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Filter's Twelfth Night enlists a cast... More >
starting at $76
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Performing Arts - Music | March 24 | 8 p.m. | First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Treasured by the millions who tune in annually to its Christmas Eve broadcast by the BBC, the all-male Choir of King's College, Cambridge, offers an uplifting concert of works drawn from the rich English choral tradition, "all sung with the precision and grace that make this choir world famous" (The Guardian, London).
starting at $56
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Saturday, March 25, 2017
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Performing Arts - Theater | March 25 | 2 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Direct from the United Kingdom and making its West Coast debut, Britain's acclaimed Filter Theatre, "a company blessed with wit, style, and a touch of magic" (Daily Telegraph, London), presents its breakneck and explosive production of Shakespeare's masterwork of romance, satire, and mistaken identity. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Filter's Twelfth Night enlists a cast... More >
starting at $76
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Milos: Bach to Beatles
Performing Arts - Music | March 25 | 8 p.m. | First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Among the most celebrated classical guitarists working today, the young Montenegrin Milos Karadaglić brings a populist sensibility to his captivating, eclectic programs. Here, joined by a chamber ensemble, he performs major classical works by Granados, Rodrigo, Boccherini, and Albéniz, along with familiar standards from Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, and stunningly intimate renditions of... More >
starting at $42
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Performing Arts - Theater | March 25 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Direct from the United Kingdom and making its West Coast debut, Britain's acclaimed Filter Theatre, "a company blessed with wit, style, and a touch of magic" (Daily Telegraph, London), presents its breakneck and explosive production of Shakespeare's masterwork of romance, satire, and mistaken identity. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Filter's Twelfth Night enlists a cast... More >
starting at $76
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Go Tell It!
Performing Arts - Other | March 26 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Taiwo Kujichagulia-Seitu and Lyric Performing Arts Academy present Go Tell It!, a Harriet Tubman musical. Shortly before Christmas in 1854, Harriet Tubman discovered that her brothers, enslaved in Maryland, were to be sold at auction on December 26. On December 29, Harriet, her brothers, and several others reached safety in Philadelphia. Go Tell It! tells... More >
Free for BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, retirees; 18 & under + guardian | $10 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons | $12 General admission
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Performing Arts - Theater | March 26 | 3 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Direct from the United Kingdom and making its West Coast debut, Britain's acclaimed Filter Theatre, "a company blessed with wit, style, and a touch of magic" (Daily Telegraph, London), presents its breakneck and explosive production of Shakespeare's masterwork of romance, satire, and mistaken identity. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Filter's Twelfth Night enlists a cast... More >
starting at $76
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Performing Arts - Music | March 26 | 3 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
The distinguished National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine lends its expressive power to a program that includes Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with celebrated Ukrainian soloist Alexei Grynyuk, and Shostakovich's heroic Symphony No. 5. "Its strings can conjure up a vibrant songfulness; the woodwinds have a fruity, penetrating ripeness; the brass could endanger the walls of Jericho; the percussion... More >
starting at $38
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
