Performing Arts

Alpha Yaya Diallo & the Bafing Riders

Saturday, April 21, 8:00 PM

Advance tickets $24 general, $22 seniors, $12 teens/kids
At the door $27 general, $25 seniors, $15

Guitarist and singer Alpha Yaya Diallo, from Guinea in West Africa, is one of the hottest acts on the current world music scene. Now based in Vancouver, Canada, he's earned a matchless reputation internationally for the excellence of his musicianship and the excitement of his live shows - whether performing solo or with his band The Bafing Riders.

Ives Quartet

Saturday, February 25, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

$33 general, $31 seniors, $15 teens/kids

The Ives Quartet has captivated audiences from San Francisco to New York, Taiwan to London. Inspired by the passionate, artistic commitment and unique temperament of American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954), the Ives Quartet creates powerful live-music experiences through the presentation of fresh and informed interpretations of a carefully curated repertory to American and international audiences.

Pirates of Penzance - Sing-along!

Saturday, March 24, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

$34 general, $32 seniors, $17 teens/kids

Lamplighters Music Theatre was founded in 1952 to produce the comic operas of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, and is now recognized as one of the world’s pre-eminent Gilbert & Sullivan companies. The Lamplighters’ repertoire includes all the surviving works of these creative geniuses, as well as a select group of comic operas and classic musicals by other composers that exemplify their artistic vision.

Raul Midon

Saturday, March 31, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

$24 general, $22 seniors, $12 teens/kids

Search for “Raul Midón” on YouTube and you’ll find a clip of the New York-based vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter appearing on The Late Show With David Letterman in 2006. Performing “State of Mind,” the title track from his 2005 debut album, Midón unleashes a silky, soulful tenor and dazzling percussive guitar style — a syncopated, flamenco- and jazz-infused approach in which bass, harmony, and melodic lines emanate from the fretboard in one slap-happy storm.

Uncle Buzzy Hometown Theatre Show!!

Saturday, April 14, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

San Francisco comedy troupe Uncle Buzzy's Hometown Theater Show!! is a little like the old Sonny and Cher show or Saturday Night Live or even Flight of the Conchords, only it is local, local, local- and guest starring your neighbors! It's irreverent- but gently and personally so.
"It's like Killing My Lobster except without all the lobsters having to die!"
www.unclebuzzy.webs.com

Word for Word T.C. Boyle's "Sorry Fugu"

Saturday, March 10, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

$33 general, $31 seniors, $16 teens/kids

The dreaded Willow, critic terrible, is coming to Albert’s restaurant. Disaster ensues—until Albert concocts a diabolical plan. T.C. Boyle (“an explosively gifted satirist”—N.Y. Times) writes of food and passion in “Sorry Fugu”, his witty, wicked look at restaurants and critics.

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