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The event, which will feature the reading of short stories, creative nonfiction and poetry, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Kati Short at shortkati@yahoo.com or 925-634-6655. Carey Hurst of Liberty High School and retired Liberty instructor Susan Stuart, conduct. The concert will be at 7 p.m. May 5 at the Liberty High School Allan E. Jones Performing Arts Center, 850 Second St. Admission is $10 at the door; 12 and younger are free. www.brentwoodconcertband.com. Sharon Redman directs the play based on the book by A.A. Milne, with adaptation by Kristen Sergel.
Solo artists have always occupied a valued place on the Bay Area theater scene, But Susan Evans, artistic director of the Douglas Morrisson Theatre, says that one-person shows have become even more popular in recent years, Evans believes that audiences are hungry, perhaps as an antidote to the big blockbusters that often dominate theaters, for the kind of up-close and personal stories that these artists present, “I think people miss that kind of intimate, relatable theater,” says Evans, “It’s kind of the other extreme of hugely technical shows, There’s a kind of relief in being able to sit in a dark room 18cm ballet zebra print textured calf hi fetish boot charm burlesque dominatrix and watch someone tell a story, to focus on one performer and not have your senses assailed, And these artists are people you just want to watch.”..
By Joanne Engelhardt. For The Daily News. It’s hard to figure out what to make of an unpretentious little theater piece called “Maple and Vine,” running through Feb. 22 at the Bus Barn Theater in Los Altos. Since it first premiered in 2011 at Actors Theater of Louisville (and then off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons), this quasi-comedy with troubling undertones hasn’t been performed often in the Bay Area, although it had a 2012 production at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Congregational Oratorio Society, Conducted by Gregory Wait; Joe Guthrie on continuo, “Madrigals from Around the World.” Music by Morley, Lassus, Marenzio, Weelkes and others, Ice-cream social follows, 3 p.m, June 3, First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto, $10-$15, 650-856-6662 or www.fccpa.org/FCCPA_Site/Concerts.html, Bay Choral Guild, “All 18cm ballet zebra print textured calf hi fetish boot charm burlesque dominatrix Night Vigil,” by Sergei Rachmaninov, 4:30 p.m, June 10, St Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto, $6-$25, 650- 326-3800 or baychoralguild.org/tickets..
Art History Group: Led by Kathy Kelley, author of “Art History Through the Ages.” Meets the second Monday of every month, 3-4:30 p.m. Adult Recreation Center, 208 E. Main St., Los Gatos. Free to 55 Plus Program members; non-members $5 per meeting. Free parking. 408-354-1514, lgsrecreation.org. Learn Hindi: Instructors Dhawal Tyagi and Ashutosh Shastry lead a weekly free Hindi language class for beginners, open to all Saratogans. Sundays, 5-6 p.m. Saratoga Community Center, 19655 Allendale Ave., Saratoga. RSVP is required to saratogatemple@gmail.com. groups.google.com/group/SaratogaHindi.
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