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The Cashore Marionettes return to the Mondavi Center on March 15-17 with a family-oriented program titled “Simple Gifts,” a series of touching portrayals and poignant scenes from everyday life set to music by such composers as Vivaldi, Strauss, Beethoven and Copland. Through a combination of virtuoso manipulation, beautiful music, theatrical illusion and artistic insight, the [...]
Excerpts of victim impact statements from Friday’s sentencing hearing for Richard Hirschfield: “I see Sabrina all around me, in all that is good, in her beautiful smile, her laugh, her devotion to others, but mostly her compassion.” — Terese Atallah, Sabrina’s sister, in a letter read by her husband Carlos Atallah “My family and I [...]
“Promised Land” Four stars Starring: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Rosemarie DeWitt, Hal Holbrook, Titus Welliver, Lucas Black Rating: R, for profanity Matt Damon hasn’t written many scripts since 1997’s “Good Will Hunting,” his Academy Award-winning debut effort with Ben Affleck. His prudence is understandable; where does one go, from up? No doubt Damon [...]
Check it out What: “Radium Girls” Where: Pamela Trokanski Performing Arts Center, 2720 Del Rio Place When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Tickets: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students; save $2 online at brownpapertickets.com Info: Acmetheatre.net I am continually amazed that Acme Theatre Company, whose young members spend a maximum of three, [...]
The National Theatre of Scotland comes to the Mondavi Center this month for a five-day run of anarchic theatre, live music and strange goings-on as the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre transforms into a rural Scottish pub for a “locked-in” show (i.e., you’re not supposed to leave until it’s over) titled “The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.” One [...]
Pianist Charlie Albright — who has performed several times in recent years with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and also has appeared with several orchestras — will present a recital at the Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13. The 24-year-old Albright grew up in Washington state, then entered the Harvard College/New England [...]
Ninety miles is the distance between the United States and Cuba, a country known worldwide for music. Cuban music continues to be popular in the United States, even though diplomatic relations between the two nations have been frosty for decades. Ninety Miles is also the name adopted by the group featuring three American jazz musicians who [...]
If it’s January, then it must be time for the SF Sketchfest. The San Francisco Comedy Festival celebrates its 12th anniversary from Jan. 24 to Feb. 1o with more comedians for more laughs. SF Sketchfest was started by 1994 Davis High graduate Cole Stratton and three of his college friends — Janet Varney, Dave Owen [...]
“Not Fade Away” Two stars Starring: John Magaro, James Gandolfini, Bella Heathcote, Jack Huston, Will Brill, Molly Price, Christopher McDonald Rating: R, for pervasive profanity, considerable drug use, sexual candor and fleeting nudity Disinterested cast can’t breathe any life into this ode to early rock ’n’ roll By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic Viewers born [...]
The Davis Chorale presents Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-hour opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at 4 p.m. Sunday at in the Brunelle Performance Hall at Davis High School — coinciding with the time when (according to tradition) the Three Wise Men visited the baby Jesus in a stable. According to most versions of the story, the Three Wise [...]
“Footnote,” a 2011 Israeli film directed by Joseph Cedar, will be screened Friday as part of the International Film Series. The series is co-sponsored by the United Nations Association of Davis and International House. Doors at I-House, 10 College Park, open at 7:30 p.m. and the film begins promptly at 8 p.m. There is no charge, [...]
That’s the ticket What: “Home for the Holidays” concert When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: Veterans’ Memorial Theater, 203 E. 14th St. Tickets: $20 general, $8 youths under 18; Watermelon Music, 207 E St., and Armadillo Music, 205 F St. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Davis. To celebrate, the ninth annual “Home [...]
Snap photos of your pet — costumed or not — with Santa Claus from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at Petco in The Marketplace shopping center, 1341 W. Covell Blvd. The cost is $8.95 per photo, with all of the proceeds benefiting the Yolo County SPCA. Snap photos of your pet with Santa Claus from noon to [...]
Scott Stanowicz and his fifth-graders at Pioneer Elementary School took advantage of the break in storms Monday to launch rockets that they have been building as part of an incentive offered by Stanowicz for students completing their homework and class assignments on time. They plan to do another rocketry project in the spring as part [...]
