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72 Hours: New Year's weekend edition
Pop & HissThe should-be-weekly Pop & Hiss rundown of the weekend's top concerts. Friday • Matthew Sweet @ the Echoplex. Long an unashamed devotee of pure power pop buoyed by winning harmonies and gluey hooks, Sweet celebrates the 20th anniversary of his...... -
Berkeley Rep's Les Waters to head Actors Theatre of Louisville
Culture MonsterLes Waters, associate artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, will be the next artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville. The appointment reverses the Kentucky to California route taken by Marc Masterson, who left Actors Theatre in May... -
Rhino Records pop-up store returns to Westwood May 27 to June 12
Pop & HissRhino Records store returns in pop-up location May 27 to June 12... -
In 'Girlfriend,' Matthew Sweet's lyrics tell the story
It looks like an innocent radio sing-a-long. In the new musical "Girlfriend," two adolescents are belting out a pop-rock tune that's on the radio. Flirting like high school seniors headed to the prom, the couple grows more spirited as the music turns...Tags: High Schools, Green Day (music group), Theater, Teen-agers, Celebrities
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Green Day musical is a record-breaker for Berkeley Rep
Culture MonsterSorry Princess Leia, Tony Kushner and you folks from the Tectonic Theater Project who compiled "The Laramie Project," but it looks like you just weren't punk enough. Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced today that "American Idiot," its new musical based... -
Revisiting 'Tales' with Armistead Maupin and Olympia Dukakis
Culture MonsterWhen in San Francisco, do as the San Franciscans do -- indulge in culinary pleasures while enjoying the conversation of freethinking originals. While in town a couple of weeks ago to review âGirlfriend,â the new Todd Almond-Matthew Sweet musical at...... -
How did Jay Roach get a Beatles song for 'Dinner for Schmucks'?
The Big PictureWhen I was having breakfast with Jay Roach Thursday morning, I couldn't have opened the interview with a dumber question. Having seen his new film, "Dinner for Schmucks," which stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd as the ultimate kind of...... -
Rita Moreno to star as herself in 2011 solo show at Berkeley Rep
Culture MonsterBerkeley Repertory Theatre's 2010-11 season will feature an as-yet untitled one-woman show about Rita Moreno -- starring Rita Moreno. It opens May 18, 2011, when the actress-singer will be 79. The show will mark the playwriting debut of Tony Taccone,........ -
'Girlfriend': A little slice of gay teen life
Culture MonsterModern musical theater tends to be showy--think "Fela," "Billy Elliot," "Wicked"--if not sometimes a little bit over the top. But for every proposed budget-busting "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," there can be a new, intimate, even personal musical. And... -
Theater review: 'Girlfriend' at Berkeley Rep
Culture MonsterReporting from BerkeleyâThe old formula of romantic comedyâboy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy tries to get girl backâreceives a same-sex makeover in âGirlfriend,â the sweet and simple, if slightly overstretched, new musical incorporating...
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