Arts & Events

Theater Review: 'Enemies: Foreign and Domestic' by Central Works at the Berkeley City Club

Ken Bullock
Friday March 13, 2015 - 01:17:00 PM

"It never occurred to you that living with our mother--our mother!--might turn somebody against America!"

With that would-be wake-up call, Margaret Mary Mahoney (Central Works co-founder and co-director Jan Zvaifler in an often-funny yet harrowing turn) confronts her sisters Bridgett (Maura Halloran) and Kathleen (Danielle Thys) in their mother's home over the presence of a young Somali woman in hijab, their mother's caregiver Siara (Desirée Rogers), and what to her is the mystery of their terminally-ill mother's very recent and sudden demise without pronouncement or death certificate in the midst of the action of Patricia Milton's telling new play, 'Enemies: Foreign and Domestic.' -more-


AROUND & ABOUT: Music--Philharmonia Baroque ... Vivaldi with Rachel Podger

Ken Bullock
Friday March 13, 2015 - 10:11:00 AM

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, led by Rachel Podger—who the BBC Music Magazine has called "Britain's finest period violinist"—will play an all-Vivaldi concert of nine violin concerti, for one, two and three violins, Saturday, March 14 at 8, Sunday, March 15 at 7:30, at the First Congregational Church, 245 Channing Way at Dana. $25-$100. philharmonia.org -more-


AROUND AND ABOUT: Music. Hugh Masekela & Vusi Mahlasela at Zellerbach Hall for Cal Performances: Now 21 Years of Freedom

Friday March 13, 2015 - 04:05:00 PM

"What people don't realize is that war against occupation in South Africa began when the first Dutch settlers came in 1652, and it didn't stop till 1994. I don't consider myself a political musician; a consider myself a person who learned music from people who were resisting an oppression." -more-