Will Durst and Company
presents The Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show XI

Nationally known political comedian Will Durst and company will mock, scoff and taunt with taste the news events that made 2003 an amazing whirlwind year. This is the Eleventh Annual Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show at the Julia Morgan Theatre combining stand-up, improvisation and loosely-written sketches. The show is a rib-tickling reminder of just what makes this country so great. *As with some live comedy shows, some material may not be suitable for all ages.

Tickets: $17 General | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, December 12, 7:00 PM | Saturday, December 13, 2:00 PM , 7:00 PM | Sunday, December 14, 2:00 PM

Berkeley Ballet Theater
presents The Nutcracker

Sweeten your holidays with this happy, engaging and delightful retelling of the classic seasonal treat, The Nutcracker. Berkeley Ballet Theatre students and the pre-professional youth company perform with guest cavaliers from Bay Area companies including Diablo Ballet, ODC and San Francisco Opera Ballet. Choreography is by Sally Streets and Robert Nichols.

Tickets: $18 General
Special Onstage aftershow party for children: $5
BBT Ticket Office: 510.843.4689

Friday, November 28, 2 PM | Saturday, November 29, 2 PM | Sunday, November 30, 2 PM

Splash Circus
presents In the Magical Forest

Splash Circus, an all-youth theatrical circus ensemble, returns to the Julia Morgan theatre for the 5th consecutive year with its latest circus adventure, "In the Magical Forest." Step into a world where faeries, elves, sprites, trolls and even trees perform amazing feats! The show featues acrobatics, hand-balancing, contortion, trapeze, rope, comedy, mime, dance and juggling, a treat for the entire family.

Tickets: $15 Adults, $8 Children, $10 Students/Seniors | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Tuesday, November 18, 7:30 PM

First Stage Children's Theater
presents Time Capsule Blues

When the residents of Plainville discover a time capsule from 1903, life isn't so plain and simple anymore! The whole family will enjoy this musical comedy, written and directed by Sue Walton, choreographed by KC Chapek, and performed by a lively troupe of 8-11-year-olds. This is First Stage Children's Theater's 18th season of performing plays on the Julia Morgan stage.

Tickets: $4 General | Tickets at the Door Only

Thursday, November 13, 8 pm | Friday, November 14, 8 pm
Saturday, November 15, 2 pm and 8 pm

Alchemy Works
Presents Where There's a WIL(L), There's a Play

Alchemy Works presents "Where There's a WIL(L), There's a Play" an engaging collection of short works by, or inspired by, famous "WILs", such as WILliam Shakespeare, Lanford WILson and Oscar WILde. Alchemy Works is a division of PEP, a Bay Area coalition that sponsors activities to build bridges, enabling people from non-traditional groups, especially people with disabilities, to engage in professional theatre work.

Tickets: $15 Adults, $10 Students/Seniors | Matinee: $12 Adults, TBA/CDT members $10, Groups of 10 or more $8
CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Thursday, November 6, 8:00 PM
Friday, November 7, 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 8, 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 9, 2:00 PM, 7:00 PM

Traveling Jewish Theatre and Word for Word
present Windows and Mirrors: Stories by Paley, Malamud and Biller

A Traveling Jewish Theatre and Word for Word, two acclaimed San Francisco Theatre companies, cross the Bay to bring writers Grace Paley and Bernard Malamud to the Julia Morgan stage. These American masters evoke the tender, often hilarious complications of family life in New York. Also on the program: German iconoclast Maxim Biller's noir-ish ride through the twists and turns in German-Jewish relations. The four stories by the three authors: Grace Paley's "Wants" and "A Conversation with My Father;" Bernard Malamud's "Spring Rain" and Maxim Biller's "Finkelstein's Fingers."

Tickets:
Thurs., Fri., Sun., nights: $26 Adults, $22 Children/Students/Seniors  |  Sat. night, Sun. matinee: $30 adults, $26 Children/Students/Seniors
CBON Ticket Line 925.798.1300

Sunday, November 2, 8:00 PM

Grupo Andanza
presents "Antologia" - An Evening of Spanish Opera and Dance

A superb cast of 15 musicians and dancers brings Spanish opera, dance and classical music to the stage of the Julia Morgan. Grupo Andanza has received critical acclaim for its productions of famous Zarzuela (Spanish Opera)scenes,classical Spanish arias, 18th Century Bolero School, Folkloric and Flamenco dances. Founded in 2001 and based in San Francisco, Grupo Andanza is the only company on the West Coast presenting this beautiful and ecclectic Spanish repertoire to the North American public. Program includes the World Premiere "Antologia," featuring tenor Claudio Santome, sopranos Mimi Ruiz, Vhismaya Lhi and dancers La Mora and La Cochu.

Tickets: Adults $20, Students/Seniors $18 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, October 31, 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 1, 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 2, 2:00 PM

ShadowLight Productions
Presents Wayang Bali's Dangerous Flowers

Shadowmaster Larry Reed brings traditional Balinese shadow theater to new heights in ShadowLight Productions performance of "Wayang Bali: Dangerous Flowers." This ancient story, in which Bima battles an unknown brother and all the Gods to bring flowers to his beloved, is drawn from the Mahabharata myth cycle and performed in cinema-scale with live music by the acclaimed Gamelan Sekar Jaya. This Hindu epic continues its path around the world from India to Bali and now to The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts.

Tickets: Friday/Saturday night shows, $15 Adults, $7 Children/Students/Seniors | Sunday Matinee: $10 Adults, $5 Children
CBON Ticket LIne: 925.798.1300

Friday, October 31, 4-6pm

Special Halloween Shadow Puppetry Workshop!
Presented by ShadowLight Productions

Hands-on, for kids of all ages! Create and explore the world of shadows with ShadowLight, America's premiere shadow theater company. This Balinese shadow-puppetry workshop led by the ShadowLight cast as either an alternative to, or a pre-trick-or-treating activity on Halloween, where children will have the opportunity to light up the stage with their creations.

$5-15 sliding scale | Tickets at the Door Only

Sunday, October 26, 2 PM

California Revels
presents An All Hallow's Eve Treat

Join us for a funny All Hallows’ Eve Treat featuring critically acclaimed comic, Geoff Hoyle, the Bay Area’s own Master of Revelry. Singer Wendell Brooks brings music to the event and leads the audience in song! 

The Revels blends traditional music, dance and ritual with the comic antics of Geoff Hoyle, originator of the role Zasu in The Lion King. A former clown with Pickle Family Circus and a playwright, Hoyle joins other Revels players for a joyful pre-holiday celebration at the Julia Morgan.

Tickets: Adults $10, Children $5 | CBON Ticket Line 925.798.1300

Thursday, October 23, 8:00 PM

Shakespeare’s Othello
presented by Woman’s Will

As part of the Berkeley Arts Festival, the Bay Area's all-female Shakespeare company Woman's Will will present Shakespeare's most heart-wrenching tragedy, Othello. A cast of nine brings to life this modern, muscular production, in which the rumblings of war give rise to the rumblings in two men's troubled minds. Genders, nations, and cultures clash as an age-old tale of love and betrayal provokes a timely re-examination of prejudice and war.

Tickets: Adults $25-$15 Sliding Scale, Children/Students/Seniors $12 | Tickets at the Door

Note Schedule Change:
Friday, October 24, 8 PM | Saturday, October 25, 2 PM & 8 PM

Ain't Misbehavin', Direct from
New York!
Starring Vivian Jett from the Broadway Cast

"Ain't Misbehavin'," starring Vivian Jett from the original Broadway cast in a production direct from New York, carries the audience on a bouyant journey through the Fats Waller Songbook and Harlem in its heyday. This multiple-Tony award winning musical -- with snazzy period costumes and 30 fabulous Waller showstoppers like "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Black and Blue" -- is a joyous celebration that transforms the theater into a foot-stompin', roof-raising Harlem jazz hall. Cotton Club Cabaret Seating is $50 every night, right up front and includes a bottle of sparkling water and champagne glasses.

* Note: No performance Thursday Oct. 23.

Tickets: $39.50 & $29.50 | Cotton Club Cabaret Seating: $50
Side Aisle Seats: $24.50 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, October 17, 7 PM

Once Upon a Time: 7th Annual Charity Fashion Show
presented by U.C.-Berkeley's Asian Business Association

Hook up with the latest fashions, comedy skits and a variety of performances by U.C. Berkeley students when the 500 member Asian Business Association, the largest business oriented organization on the UC Berkeley campus, holds its 7th Annual Fashion Showcase. The ABA charity showcase features clothing from the Gap, Jessica McClintock, Urban Outfitters and others. All proceeds go to benefit the Alameda County Community Food Bank.

Tickets: ABA Members $8, Non-ABA Members $10 (Asian Business Assn.) | Tickets at the Door

Sunday, September 21, 7 pm (note time change)

Jyoti Rout
presents ALAAP

Indian Classical Music and Dance featuring Jyoti Rout and master musicians provides enchantment for the entire family. This magical program, titled "Alaap" or Melody, includes solo sitar recital by Pandit Habib Khan; Prof. Mohini Mohan Pattnaik on flute and santoor; Odissi dance by Jyoti Rout; with Vijaya Gate and Satish Tare on tabla and Nirmal Kuman Rout on pakhawaj.

Tickets: $20 Adults, $15 Children/Students/Seniors | Tickets at the Door

Sunday, Septemer 21, 9 am - 2 pm

JULIA MORGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
OPEN HOUSE/TREASURE SALE

ACCEPTING DONATIONS NOW THROUGH SEPT. 15

Saturday, September 13, 4 pm

Shotgun Players present
Mother Courage and her Children

Generally recognized as one of Bertolt Brecht's greatest, Mother Courage and her Children joins the list of plays Shotgun has produced in the last two years that poke and prod the causes, justifications and results of war. Live music performed from an original score supports the comic irony of this powerful epic.

When asked what he wanted his audiences to walk away from in a production of Mother Courage and her Children, Brecht stated, "That war is a continuation of business by other means, making human virtues fatal even to those who exercise them. That no sacrifice is too great for the struggle against war." Note: Content may not be suitable for all children.

Tickets: Pay-what-you-can at the Door

Friday, September 5, 8 pm

Say It: Talking About Race

Say It: Talking About Race is an evening of comedy, poetry and song focusing on the complicated dimensions of race relations in America. The lineup includes Hawaiian-Filipino movie actor and stand-up comic Andy Bumatai; "Latin Lezbo" comic and playwright Monica Palacios; and the "Father of Chicano Music" and recipient of the 1997 National Medal of Arts, singer Lalo Guerrero. Along with other guests, this dynamic trio jokes, raps and sings about race in America in a refreshingly open and candid way. The performance will be videotaped for a PBS documentary by Paradigm Productions. Note: Content may not be suitable for all children.

Tickets: Adults $8, Children $5 | CBON TIcket Line: 925.798.1300

Thursday, August 21, 7:30 pm

Opera Piccola
presents The Guests, A Folk Tale of Iran

Opera Piccola ("Small Works") premieres the final new work in its original Folk Tale Cycle. The Guests re-tells an ancient story from Iran about a lonely woman who welcomes a crowd of unexpected "guests" into her tiny house. Understood in Iran to be a metaphor for world peace, this folk tale is woven together in Opera Piccola's production with ancient Iranian and contemporary American jazz and dance.

Tickets: Adults $15, Children/Students/Seniors $8 | Groups of 5 or more: $8/ticket
CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, August 15, 7:30 PM | Saturday, August 16, 5:00 PM | Sunday, August 17, 5:00 PM

Stage Door Conservatory
presents Bye Bye Birdie

Stage Door Conservatory's "On Broadway" program for 5th-9th graders presents the popular Broadway musical, "Bye Bye Birdie," about rock and roll star Conrad Birdie who is about to enter the Army and will bid a typical American teen-age girl goodbye with an all-American kiss.

STAGE DOOR CONSERVATORY is a fun and rewarding musical theater camp where campers learn all aspects of theater from acting, singing, and dancing to creating their own sets and props. ON BROADWAY is a six-week musical theater program for kids entering grades 5-9, culminating in three performances of a Broadway musical.

Tickets: Adults $13, Children/Students/Seniors $8 | Tickets at the Door Only

California Music Festival

Click here for complete performance schedule

The two-week California Music Festival for emerging professionals and college/conservatory students comes this year to the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. Programs showcase concert artists, as well as outstanding young artists from across the globe, many of them affiliated with such institutions as the Julliard School, Manhattan School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory and others. Under the direction of an internationally acclaimed faculty, this year's festival features chamber music, lieder and the music of Mendelssohn; the staged opera will be Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus (performed in English).

The California Music Festival was founded in 2000 with a very specific artistic goal: creating an opportunity for instrumentalists and vocalists to work in an environment in which they could learn together and from one another.

Tickets: Die Fledermaus Performances: $25 Adult, $18 Students/Seniors
All Other Performances: $18 Adult, $12 Students/Seniors | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

presents Gounod's Faust

Dr. Faust, an aging scholar, makes a fateful bargain with the devil. He obtains the services of Mephistopheles for life and uses his new wealth and youth to win Marguerite, a model of virtue and beauty, but soon finds he has destroyed the very innocence he loves.

This classic story of passion, corruption, and redemption contains some of opera’s most beloved melodies.

Berkeley Opera's production of Gounod's Faust is presented in its original form, with spoken dialogue between musical numbers. The opera is presented in English.

Berkeley Opera was founded in 1979 and has presented more than 50 different operas, ranging from the most familiar to critically-acclaimed new translation/adaptations by David Scott Marley, including The Riot Grrrl on Mars.

Tickets: Adults $38, Seniors $33, Children $16, Students $10
Side Seating: $16, Student tickets are rush tickets, sold only on the night of the performance
CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Sunday, June 15, 2 pm

Kalanjali Summer Festival 2003

This performance is part of a world-wide celebration of the centenary of the birth of India's great artist and choreographer, Rukmini Devi Arundale, founder of Kalakshetra Institute of Fine Arts. This lively recital of Bharatanatyam and Mohiniattam brings Kalanjali's most experienced artists to the stage, which they share with younger students. Featured guest artists from India include dancer K.P. Yesodha and the musicians of Bharatakalanjali.

Tickets: $25 donor (front rows), $12 general seating | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, June 13, 8 pm

Maria Bermudez and Sonidos Gitanos
Flamenco Dance and Music

Join Maria Bermudez and seven unique artists direct from the birthplace of Flamenco, Jerez de la Frontera, for a night of pure Flamenco music and dance. Unlike many dance companies that tour North America, Sonidos Gitanos embodies the true spirit of Flamenco: "individuals" brought together to collaborate and improvise, as opposed to a group staging a theatrical production. This is the first opportunity for Bay Area audiences to experience this dynamic Flamenco group.

Tickets: $32 Adults, $29 Children 7-12/Students/Seniors over 65 | CBON Ticket Line 925.798.1300

Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8, 2 pm

Walden School
Presents Oliver's Urban Twist

Walden School puts a fun, hip-hop spin on Dickens’ popular classic Oliver Twist. The whole family will love this delightful and heartwarming musical of an optimistic orphan and his far-out adventures in 1970s New York City.

All Tickets $12 | Tickets at the Door, or call Walden School: 510.841.7248

Sunday, June 1, 2 pm

Stop the Violence - Music Heals Concert
Presented by Cherrie Williams

"Stop the Violence - Music Heals Concert" presents Cherrie Williams, the "Singing Domestic," while showcasing the talents of children and special guests performing gospel, blues, jazz, soul, dance, poetry and art. The program is designed to uplift the spirit and warm the heart while offering a lot of fun. Ms. Williams's unique black doll art and memorabilia will be on view.

Tickets: At the door, $15 Adults, $9 Children/Students/Seniors | Save $2 - buy tickets in advance | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Sunday, May 25, 2 pm

Sun and Moon Ensemble
Enchanted Forest

With theatre, dance, masked characters, giant puppets, and live music Enchanted Forest creates a world of mythical and magical beings. Mother Sun entrusts the great wizard Merlin with a marvelous dragon and its entourage of fanciful dragon folk. Things go awry when a dream turns into a nightmare, until Mother Sun returns to restore harmony. Humor blends with poetry as the group takes the stage, and the journey into fantasy brings us back to the familiar domain of the human heart.

Tickets: $10 Adults, $5 Children
CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, May 16, 7 pm | Saturday, May 17, 2 pm and 7 pm
Sunday, May 18, 2 pm

Berkeley Ballet Theater
Children's Division and Youth Company
Present "Seasons"

Berkeley Ballet Theater Children's Division and Youth Company present "Seasons," a delightful opportunity for dance-lovers of all ages to enjoy ballet. The program includes Sally Street’s "Mon Parasol" and two world premiers by Sonya Delwaide, "Au Revoir" and "Au Pas," plus a restaging of "Les Patineurs," by Berkeley Ballet Theater's artistic director Corinne Jonas.

Tickets: $16 General | BBT Box Office: 510.843.4689

Sunday, May 11, 2 pm

California Revels
Mother's Day Celebration

A California Revel's Mother's Day Celebration is an event for the whole family! Celebrate Mom in grand style with song, dance and story. From fiddle tunes to Irish dance, classical guitar to audience sing-alongs, there's something for the whole family at this rousing Mother's Day gathering. Revels founder John Langstaff will be joined by a cast of favorites including Shira Kammen, Susan Rode Morris, Eileen Mize, Yair Evnine and Mariel Vandersteel.

Tickets: Adults $10, Children $5 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Saturday, May 10, 8 pm

A WISH
Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance
Annual Repertory Concert

The Mahea Uchiyama Dance Theater School presents its Annual Repertory Concert, an opportunity for all students to showcase their work from the current year. Featuring live music and drumming, professional guest artists, as well as more than 100 performers of world dance, the concert has become a staple of the Bay Area dance scene.

Advance Tickets: $15 Adults, $12 Children/Students/Seniors | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300
At the Door: $18 Adults, $15 Children/Students/Seniors

Saturday, May 10, 2 pm

The Ives String Quartet

The Ives Quartet will present a program of "Selected Shorts" for string quartet by Franz Schubert, Giacomo Puccini, Antonin Dvorak, Arthur Foote, Charles Ives, Anton Webern and William Kroll. The Ives Quartet was founded in 1983 and has performed in New York, Taiwan, London and most recently at the Festival of Chamber Music in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

Tickets: $20 Adults, $10 Students | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, May 9, 8 pm

An Evening with Scott Capurro

An intimate evening with internationally renowned author, comedian, playwright, actor and radio personality. Scott will share his famously scathing social commentary in this, his first East Bay appearance of 2003.

Tickets: $20 General | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Thursday, May 1, 7 pm

Midsummer Night's Dream
Redwood Day School, 8th Grade Class

The 8th grade play is a Redwood Day School tradition that students look forward to even before reaching 8th grade. This year the class of 2003 chose William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Nights Dream" as their play. They've been working since January in drama and art, squeezing extra rehearsals in before school and between classes to create the magical world of Duke Theseus' Athens. The students have conjured up the enchanted fairy forest of Oberon and Titania and the characters of Puck, Bottom, "rude mechanicals," confused young lovers, an angry father, fighting fairies, and mischief galore. Come and see the students as fairies and mortals in a wild adventure at the Julia Morgan Theater. For more information about Redwood Day School, check out www.rdschool.org.

This is a free event.

April 28 through May 4

Bay Area Celebrates
National Dance Week

Interested in dance, a little wary of dance, like to watch it but not participate, not sure if you like it? Maybe you just haven't discovered the right dance for you...? Come check it out! Two-hundred and ten free dance events in the Bay Area -performances, rehearsals, workshops, lectures and classes - doors are open to the public.

Here at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Berkeley Ballet Theater, the Yoga Room and Demystify Salsa have all donated classes to the celebration. Drop in and have a look.

And check the Bay Area Celebrates National Dance Week web page for information about other performances, or stop by the Julia Morgan Theatre for a copy of the calendar.

Fridays-Sunday: May 2-4
Fri.-Sat. shows 8 pm, Sunday matinee 2 pm

Berkeley Opera
Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin"

Berkeley Opera opens its 24th season with the great melodist, Tchaikovsky, and his "Eugene Onegin," the most popular of Russian operas, full of music of breathtaking emotional depth. A native country girl, her head full of romance, falls for a smug, wealthy young man from the city. Her love letter is rejected and his subsequent flirtation with her older sister leads to tragedy. Years later they meet again and the tables are turned.

Tickets: $38 Adults, $33 Seniors over 65, $16 Children under 18, $10 Students
CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Saturday, April 19, 8 pm

Pr. Rajeev Taranath In Concert

Rajeev Taranath, a leading performer on the sarode, is a disciple of the renown Ali Akbar Khan. He was trained as a child in Hindustani vocal music by his father and was a concert and radio artist before the age of 20. Rajeev Taranath performs internationally and is on the faculty at the California Institute for the Arts in Los Angeles, where he teaches Hindustani classical music. He received the Indian government's highest award in the arts, the Sangeet Natak Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Hindustani Instrumental music.

Tickets: $22 Adults, $18 Students/Seniors over 65 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Saturday, April 12, 3 pm | Tuesday, April 15, 7 pm

The Movement
Spring 2003 Showcase

The Movement is Cal's hottest dance group, combining classical ballet, jazz, swing, and hip-hop dancing styles. Founded in the fall of 1999 to bring together UC Berkeley students with a love for dance, The Movement combines hard work, dedication, professional choreography and student works to produce a sizzling dance showcase.

Tickets: $5 | Tickets at the Door Only

Tuesday, April 8, 8 pm

Empyrean Ensemble
presents Chou Wen-Chung 80th Birthday Celebration

Empyrean Ensemble honors Chou Wen-Chung, professor emeritus at Columbia University and preeminent Asian-American composer. This Julia Morgan performance is part of the 2003 Pacific Rim Music Festival and features works by Chou's distinguished students: James Tenney, Tan Dun, Bright Sheng, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Pablo Ortiz and Edmund Campion. Empyrean Ensemble is a professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at the University of California, Davis. Through compelling performances of the best new American music, the ensemble offers audiences the opportunity to hear contemporary classical music reflecting our times.

Tickets: $18 Adults/Seniors, $10 Children/Students | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, April 4, 8 pm

4 Stand-Up Dads
PG-Rated Comedy for the Whole Family

“4 Stand-Up Dads” examines the grist of suburban life: from changing diapers to windshield wipers, sibling brawls to outlet malls, all-you-can-eat buffets to pre-school graduation days. Obsessed with the events of everyday life, Kelly McDonald (Tonight show), Tim Bedore (NPR Marketplace), Milt Abel (San Francisco Comedy Competition Finalist) and Dan St. Paul (Disney’s “Flubber”) offer a unique family-oriented stand up comedy show. Between them the four dads have amassed impressive credentials: 53 national television appearances, 241 parent-teacher conferences and 3,695 trips to Costco. Rated PG (good dads don’t use bad words). *Warning: Material may not be suitable for the tattooed or pierced.

Tickets: $20 Adults, $15 Children under 13/Students/Seniors over 65 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Tuesday, April 1, 7:30 pm

First Stage Children's Theater
The Empress and Emperor's New Clothes

The young actors of First Stage perform a new version of an old classic, "The Emperor's New Clothes." Only in this show the Empress gets her chance to show off. Come see the culmination of the company's 12-week performance workshop. First Stage has been presenting original musical plays by Sue Walton at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts since 1986.

Tickets: $4 General | Tickets at the door only, box office opens at 7

Sunday, March 30, 2 pm

Cypress String Quartet
Call and Response

Journey through a musical evolution, from French Impressionism to contemporary music of 2003, with The Cypress String Quartet and guest composer, Jennifer Higdon. Described as “stunning” and one of the most accomplished string quartets in the nation, The Cypress String Quartet brings its rich blend of inspired and expressive performances to the String Quartets of Debussy, Ravel and Higdon.

Tickets: $10 Adults, $5 Children | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, March 28, 8:00 PM | Saturday, March 29, 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 30, 7:00 PM

East Bay Dance Festival

The East Bay Dance Festival showcases a wonderfully diverse mix of the best contemporary dance this side of the Bay Bridge: Mark Foehringer Dance Project, Savage Jazz Dance Company, Janice Garrett & Dancers, Paufve Dance, Danny Nguyen Dancers and Musicians, Navarrete's Works, Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble and Fellow Traveller's Performance Group.

Each of these companies has presented work throughout California, some throughout the nation, and others throughout the world. These renowned dance companies take the Julia Morgan stage to demonstrate the East Bay's unique role as a hub of creativity.

Tickets: $14 Adults, $12 Children under 15/Students/Seniors over 65 | CBON Ticket Line 925.798.1300

Sunday, March 23, 7 pm

El Cerrito Branch NAACP
Scholarship Fundraiser
presents Dance Theatre of Gospel

Dance Theatre of the Gospel fuses modern dance, jazz, hip-hop, Brazilian, Caribbean and West African with human emotional movements. This dynamic company seeks to inspire, uplift and challenge its audience to make positive changes. Sponsored by the El Cerrito Branch NAACP, this benefit performance provides scholarships to graduating high school seniors in West Contra Costa County and book grants to college students.

Tickets: Adults $20, Children under 12 $10 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Sunday, March 23, 2 pm

Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre
Presents "The Coyote Tales"

Experience two fascinating tales about the trickster character from Native American folklore, "How Coyote Kept his Name" and "Coyote and the Cedar Tree." Performed in Mask and Bunraku style puppets, "Tears of Joy Theatre" has been touring the west with its engaging theatrical forms for the past 30 years.

Tickets: Adults $10, Children $5 | CBON Ticket Line 925.798.1300

Saturday, March 22, 8 pm

Joji Hirota and the Taiko Drummers

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Sunday, March 16, 7 pm

Abhinaya Dance Company
presents Surya

Abhinaya Dance company of San Jose performs "Surya," the manifestation of the sun god. The company performs the dance and music of South India and is recognized as one of the most accomplished ethnic dance companies in the United States.

Tickets: $15 Adults, $10 Students/Seniors | CBON TIcket Line: 925.798.1300

Sunday, March 16, 2 pm

Berkeley Ballet Theatre
Youth Company
Tanzsommer Benefit Performance

Berkeley Ballet Theater's Youth Company takes the stage at the Julia Morgan for a lively Spring performance, a program company members are staging and directing themselves. This dynamic and creative six-year-old group has been honored by being invited to participate in the Tanzsommer Festival in Austria this summer. These young and talented dancers will share their love of dance and their technical skills in a benefit matinee to help finance the trip. This performance is sure to please the entire family.

Tickets: $10 Adults, $5 Children | Berkeley Ballet Theater Box Office: 843-4689

Friday, March 14, and Saturday, March 15, 8 pm

First Annual International Clitoris Celebration
Featuring talented musicians, dancers, and drummers

Sia Amma, with her sly humor and strong convictions, will be joined by dancers, singers and drummers in a fundraiser by Global Women Intact to benefit refugee women and children between the borders of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, West Africa. The petite Sia Amma uses her glowing smile and wit to raise funds and awareness about refugees caught up in Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, in which Sierra Leonean women faced particular brutality. The war left tens of thousands dead and forced more than one million Sierra Leoneans to flee their homes. Today, traumatized refugee women and children face extraordinary hurdles as they return home to rebuild their lives in a country destroyed by war, where their rights are not guaranteed and where crimes against women continue at a high rate, including the practice of clitorectomy, the cruel and dangerous traditional cutting of a girl's genitals.

Tickets: Sliding Scale $18-$25 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Thursday, March 13, 8 pm

The Vagina Monologues

A benefit performance of Eve Ensler's acclaimed "The Vagina Monologues" comes to the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, part of a worldwide grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day, as the campaign is called, raises funds for antiviolence programs; proceeds from this performance will benefit the GirlForward program in the Bay Area. Funny, poignant, courageous and intelligent, "The Vagina Monologues" delves into the mystery, humor and excitement inherent in women's experiences.

Tickets: $25 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Monday, March 10, 8 pm

24-Hour PlayFest

Woman's Will theatre company brings together seven female playwrights, seven female directors and 30 actors of all persuasions who have 24 hours to write, rehearse, and perform seven short and exciting new plays. The result: a fast-and-furious, adrenaline-packed two-hour show you'll talk about for years. Anything could happen — don't miss it!

Tickets: Sliding Scale $25-12 | Tickets at the door, cash or check only

Thursday, March 13, 8 pm

The Vagina Monologues

A benefit performance of Eve Ensler's acclaimed "The Vagina Monologues" comes to the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, part of a worldwide grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day, as the campaign is called, raises funds for antiviolence programs; proceeds from this performance will benefit the GirlForward program in the Bay Area. Funny, poignant, courageous and intelligent, "The Vagina Monologues" delves into the mystery, humor and excitement inherent in women's experiences.

Tickets: $25 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Monday, March 10, 8 pm

24-Hour PlayFest

Woman's Will theatre company brings together seven female playwrights, seven female directors and 30 actors of all persuasions who have 24 hours to write, rehearse, and perform seven short and exciting new plays. The result: a fast-and-furious, adrenaline-packed two-hour show you'll talk about for years. Anything could happen — don't miss it!

Tickets: Sliding Scale $25-12 | Tickets at the door, cash or check only

Sunday, March 9, 2 pm

Emeryville Taiko
presents Cultural Exchange Japanese Drumming Benefit Performance

Emeryville Taiko has been thrilling audiences in Northern California for five years. This exciting local company of children and adults has been invited to perform in Japan as part of the Berkeley-Sakai sister city cultural exchange program. In their Julia Morgan Center appearance the company will perform traditional Japanese drumming with a uniquely American attitude. Audience participation encouraged during the finale! This benefit performance will help them finance their long-awaited first appearance in Japan.

Tickets: $10 Adults, $5 Children | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Saturday, March 8, 8 pm

Jyoti Kala Mandir College of Indian Classical Arts
presents Odissi Indian Classical Dance Performance

Jyoti Kala Mandir College of Indian Classical Arts presents "Odissi Indian Classical Dance Performance." Imagine Orissa's great Sun Temple at Konark, with its ancient and intricately carved sculptures of temple dancers and other figures, come to life in dance. The choreography depicts life's journey from birth to death, from ignorance to knowledge of the divine; it is an homage to "the divine light which created and sustains us all."

Advance Tickets: $12 Adults, $10 Children/Students/Seniors
At the Door: $15 Adults, $12 Children/Students/Seniors
CBON Ticket LIne: 925.798.1300

Saturday, March 1, 2 pm

The Lysistrata Project
Presented by Actor's Training Project

The Lysistrata Project is a grassroots effort to present worldwide readings of Aristophanes' ancient Greek antiwar comedy, Lysistrata. In opposition to war in Iraq, there will be 620 readings in 38 countries and all 50 states in the US. Lissa Tyler Renaud, Program Director of the Actors' Training Project, has put together this informal event at the Julia Morgan Center. It includes a community reading of the play by actors, with the audience helping read the chorus passages. Other peace-related performances by Bay Area artists are planned along with a brief discussion and an Art for Peace project for children. Voluntary donations at the door support MADRE's "Every Child Has A Name" project, which sends milk and medicine to children in Iraq. For more information about MADRE go to www.madre.org.

Ticktets: Voluntary donation at the door.

February 20 thru March 2

A Traveling Jewish Theatre
presents "The Chosen"

Performances: Thurs. Feb. 20, 8 pm Fri. Feb. 21, 8 pm Sat. Feb. 22, 8 pm Sun. Feb. 23, 2 and 7 pm Thurs. Feb. 27, 8 pm Fri. Feb. 28, 8 pm Sat. March 1, 8 pm Sun. March 2, 2 and 7 pm Chaim Potok's first book, "The Chosen," is one of the most celebrated American Jewish novels of the twentieth century and one of the first American novels to evoke the world of Hasidic mysticism. Two generations of American Jews have had their sense of identity shaped by this story of two boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, sharing their passions for Torah and baseball, caught in the aftershocks of their fathers' religious conflict. The supple and intense stage adaptation by Potok and Aaron Posner has been generating passionate audience response in Washington, DC, Phoenix and Los Angeles. Now A Traveling Jewish Theatre brings it to Berkeley audiences for a special run at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. Tickets: $25 Adults, $20 Seniors, $12.50 Children/Students | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Friday, February 14, 7 pm

Valentine's Day Cabaret

February 14 is the date, Julia Morgan Center for the Arts is the place to celebrate romantic love, erotic love, love gone bad, true love, self-love, brotherly love, you name it. Couples, singles and groups of all types with their friends, lovers, spouses, partners, soul mates and best buds are invited to twist and shout, tango and trot, boogie on down at the annual Valentine's Day Cabaret at the Julia Morgan Center. Songs and entertainment by members of Shotgun Players with direction by Jonathon Moscone. Dedicate songs to that special someone.

Proceeds benefit the services and programs at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts and maintenance of the beautiful old building designed by Julia Morgan.

Tickets are $20 in advance; $25 at the door. Chocolate and bubbly on the house.
Childcare on the premises for kids 4-years-old and up (by reservation only!): $10
CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Sunday, February 9, 2 pm

The Ives String Quartet

The Ives Quartet will present a program of "Selected Shorts" for string quartet by Franz Schubert, Giacomo Puccini, Antonin Dvorak, Arthur Foote, Charles Ives, Anton Webern and William Kroll. The Ives Quartet was founded in 1983 and has performed in New York, Taiwan, London and most recently at the Festival of Chamber Music in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

Tickets: Adults $20, Students $10 | CBON Ticket Line 925.798.1300

Monday, January 20, 8 pm

Kai Eckhardt Band
Concert for Peace

The Kai Eckhardt Band presents a concert for peace to benefit the Berkwood Hedge School’s Julia Morgan Center/Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education Program. This event, featuring renowned world musician Kai Eckhardt, will incorporate world jazz, poetry and a slide show.

Tickets: $12-$20 sliding scale | Tickets at the Door Only

Sunday, January 19, 2 pm

California Revels
presents Wendell Brooks' Remembering Slavery:
The History of African Americans Through Slave Songs

California Revels presents Wendell Brooks' revelatory "Remembering Slavery: The History of African Americans Through Slave Songs." The California Revels and Brooks, a soloist with the Revels' annual winter solstice celebrations for several years, bring audiences new insights into the history and the songs of West Africans who were forced into slavery and brought to the Americas and the Caribbean. The songs they created express their sorrow and faith, and reman a powerful testament to that experience.

Tickets: Adults $10, Children $5 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Saturday, January 18, 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM

Attitude Dance
presents Dancers of the Past!

As younger dancers approach a cemetery they stop to take a minute and reflect on the dances and the dancers of the past. Attitude Dance Company specializes in jazz, hip-hop, street funk, modern, lyrical and they do it all with ATTITUDE! This is the company's fifth production at the Julia Morgan Theatre.

Tickets: Adults $12, Students $10, Children/Seniors $8 | CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300

Saturday, January 11, 8 pm

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
presents Spotlight on Strings

The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra puts the spotlight on strings in this concert of orchestral music by Handel, Lou Harrison, Haydn, Fritz Kreisler, and Mendelssohn. Featured soloists are concertmaster Roy Malan and principal cellist Gianna Abondolo, with Benjamin Simon, conductor.

Tickets: Adults $24, Students $12 | Patron Preferred Seating: $50
CBON Ticket Line: 925.798.1300