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The 41st Helen Hayes Awards took place on May 19, 2025, at The Anthem, honoring excellence in Washington D.C. theatre.
Founded by late Oakland community leader and saxophonist Bob Schwartz, the stellar group of seven Bay Area musicians has its ...
Ghanaian American playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is the product of “30-plus years of stories that I ...
As theaters across the Bay Area and the country reel from canceled National Endowment for the Arts grants, one local company is getting relief from an unlikely source: an artist. Tony Award-winning ...
This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask.
Current James Still Playwright-in-Residence Jessica Huang announced plans to develop H. G. Wells’ science fiction survival ...
In response to the chaotic terminations of grant awards by the National Endowment for the Arts in early May, Berkeley ...
More than 80 Bay Area arts nonprofits received grants from the Biden administration. They ranged from $10-$85K each and ...
The National Endowment for the Arts, or NEA, terminated grants worth a total of $120,000 to Berkeley-based arts organizations ...
The questions arise immediately in Jiehae Park's world premiere "The Aves" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. And they continue throughout. What does the title mean? ("Ave" is Latin for bird, and this is ...
New play by Jiehae Park blends a variety of ideas and themes into a unique stage experience that mostly keeps you locked in.
When we talk about aging, fatalism outweighs compassion. Lose eyesight or the ability to go for a jog, and the world might affect pity, sure. But really, there’s nothing more natural than time’s ...