Performance
Year of the Rooster
Impact Theatre at La Val's Subterranean 1834 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOdysseus Rex is having quite a year. Quite a part of a year, anyway - Odie’s only eight months old. But even at his young age, he’s mad as hell and wants to fight his way to the top. Did we mention Odie’s a rooster? Odie’s trainer, fast-food cashier Gil, has been raising Odie in a bid to return to the horrific world of cockfighting, his only chance to win at something in life. To get there, though, Gil and Odie have to survive Dickie the cockfight promoter, Gil’s mom, and Philipa, Gil’s young McDonald’s manager who’s got big dreams of her very own. A gut-busting yet poignant portrait of the price of ambition, this is the must-see show of the fall.
Ransom, Texas
The Flight Deck 1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United StatesIn a small West Texas town, two men locked in the office of a factory battle for power using whatever they've got: manipulation, mind-games, lies, and brute force. This savage, emotionally compelling two man tour-de-force will blow your socks off.
WarCircus (after Euripides’ The Trojan Women)
The Imaginists 461 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, United StatesWhat if you had to perform your tragedy over and over for thousands of years? Would you start to resent having to perform your role? From out of the past come the archetypal women of Troy: Helen, the beauty, Cassandra, the truth-teller, Hecuba, the matriarch, Andromache, the rock, Polyxena, the future, and the Women of the Chorus, the time-travelers.
Adventures of A Black Girl: Traveling While Black
Brava Theater 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTraveling While Black is part travelogue, part history lesson, part stand-up comedy and based on a lifetime of travel as a touring artist. Come see the show that had audiences screaming for more!
Wonderboy and 29 Effeminate Gestures
Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWonderboy tells an unexpected tale of a peculiar superhero puppet isolated by his gift of sensitivity. 29 Effeminate Gestures is a 12-minute solo set to music by Erik Ian Walker. It is an illuminating look at stereotypes of masculinity and considered Goode’s signature work.
Adventures of A Black Girl: Traveling While Black
Brava Theater 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTraveling While Black is part travelogue, part history lesson, part stand-up comedy and based on a lifetime of travel as a touring artist. Come see the show that had audiences screaming for more!
Halloween Concert with Octopretzel
Ashkenaz 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAn Octopretzel show features handmade puppets, bubbles of all sizes, and at times hula-hooping kindergartners. The songwriting presents imagery of things such as spinning tops, roly-polies, and whimsical imaginary creatures.
Erik Jekabson String-tet featuring Adam Shulman plays Ellington
Avonova 417 Avon Street, Oakland, CA, United StatesErik’s Jekabson String-tet, featuring Mads Tolling on violin, Charith Premawardhana on viola, Michael Zilber on saxophones, Dillon Vado on vibes, John Wiitala on bass and Smith Dobson on drums, plays his arrangements of Ellington’s music, featuring the fantastic pianist Adam Shulman.
Belly Dance Student Showcase
Suhaila Salimpour Studio 425 San Pablo Avenue, Albany, CA, United StatesJoin us the first Sunday of every month at Suhaila’s studio for an evening of live music and belly dance. Free to the public.
Year of the Rooster
Impact Theatre at La Val's Subterranean 1834 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOdysseus Rex is having quite a year. Quite a part of a year, anyway - Odie’s only eight months old. But even at his young age, he’s mad as hell and wants to fight his way to the top. Did we mention Odie’s a rooster? Odie’s trainer, fast-food cashier Gil, has been raising Odie in a bid to return to the horrific world of cockfighting, his only chance to win at something in life. To get there, though, Gil and Odie have to survive Dickie the cockfight promoter, Gil’s mom, and Philipa, Gil’s young McDonald’s manager who’s got big dreams of her very own. A gut-busting yet poignant portrait of the price of ambition, this is the must-see show of the fall.