Berkeley art shows events

Cal Shakes - American Night: The Ballad of Juan José

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Hailed as a “boisterous, rollicking, surreal…journey into American history” by the Mail Tribune during its sold-out run at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Night brings the groundbreaking work...

Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon

Wednesday, May 22 8:00p

Club Fugazi, San Francisco

The always-changing Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon is the world’s longest running musical revue...

David Copperfield at MGM Grand Las Vegas

Tuesday, May 21 7:00p

MGM Hollywood Theatre, Las Vegas

David Copperfield has been hailed by audiences and critics alike as the greatest illusionist of our time...

Robertson leads Ravel and Gershwin

Wednesday, May 22 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Ravel, who heard jazz in Harlem with Gershwin, was dumbfounded by the dazzling Rhapsody in Blue, which Gershwin played at a birthday party for the French composer...

Show For Equality: The Stephanie Teel Band

Sunday, Jun 16 7:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

Marriage Equality USA is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots organization fighting solely for the freedom to marry at the state and federal levels – including successful initiatives in New Y...

The 7th Annual Oakland Indie Awards

Thursday, May 30 6:30p

Kaiser Center Rooftop Garden, Oakland

The Oakland Indie Awards is a One PacificCoast Foundation initiative, in partnership with East Bay Express, encouraging people to recognize the community, economic, environmental and political imp...

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

Friday, Jun 14 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

A life full of music is the story of Ricky Skaggs...

Hamed Nikpay

Sunday, Jun 9 7:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

A fusion vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, Hamed Nikpay has been a pioneering & experimental artist for over a decade...

The East-West Collective

Tuesday, Jun 18 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

The EAST-WEST COLLECTIVE will commence its première tour of North America on June 14 at the Vision Festival in New York...

Dvořák's Cello Concerto with Gautier Capuçon

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Music from three Eastern Europeans gives this program a delightfully colorful sound palette...

Jonathan Biss plays Schumann

Thursday, Jun 13 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Schumann’s lilting, effervescent concerto started out as a shorter piece, but virtuoso pianist Clara Wieck—his wife—urged him to expand it...

Barantschik and Vinocour play Britten's Double

Thursday, Jun 6 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Britten composed the concerto for violin and his own instrument, viola, at 18; its youthful vigor will challenge the virtuosity of the SFS’s Concertmaster and Principal Violist...

MTT and Stravinsky: Stravinsky's Russian Roots

Friday, Jun 21 6:30p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

The joyous Les Noces “depicts” a wedding the way an Altman film uses scraps of conversation to tell a tale, and boasts four pianists on stage...

MTT and Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham

Wednesday, Jun 19 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Stravinsky’s music has been a passion of Michael Tilson Thomas’s since he met the composer while studying at USC. Fitting that the music of Stravinsky plays a prominent part in the season...