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  • The Royal Opera: Trovatore

    Rialto Cinemas Elmwood 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    The Royal Opera: Trovatore New Production! Wed, Feb 22 1 & 7pm The first revival of David Bosch's new production, conducted by Richard Farnes and starring Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Anita Rachvelishvili, Lianna Haroutounian and Gregory Kunde. International superstars Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Anita Rachvelishvili, Lianna Haroutounian and Gregory Kunde lead a superb cast of world-class singers in this […]

  • Poetry reading: Dean Rader & Dana Levin

    Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Dean Rader and Dana Levin poetry reading from Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry and Banana Palace, respectively. In Rader’s newest work, the narrator considers the self and society as a Wikipedia page—forever unfinished, sculpted, and transformed by the ever-present push and pull of politics, culture, and American’s fluctuating national identity. Rader’s innovative voice is full of humor […]

  • Disney’s Newsies The Broadway Musical

    Rialto Cinemas Elmwood 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Straight from the Broadway stage, we are thrilled to bring the Tony Award-winning musical NEWSIES to Rialto Cinemas! Filmed live on stage at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, CA, this not-to-bemissed high energy show stars Original Broadway cast members Jeremy Jordan as "Jack Kelly," Kara Lindsay as "Katherine," Ben Fankhauser as "Davey" and Andrew Keenan-Bolger […]

  • Sara Gottfried, M.D. presents Younger: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock 10 Years.

    Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Sara Gottfried, M.D. presents Younger: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock 10 Years. The author of The Hormone Cure and The Hormone Reset Diet shows every woman how to create a lifestyle that will help her look great, feel energized, and slow down the effects of aging. Feel destined for cellulite, saddle […]

  • Megan Marshall reads from Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast

    Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Megan Marshall reads from Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets.  Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America s best-loved poets. And yet painfully shy and living out of public view […]

  • Harriett Scott Chessman reads The Lost Sketchboook of Edgar Degas

    Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Harriet Scott Chessman reads from her new novel, The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas, a lyrical novel about what art can reveal, and a nuanced imagining of the people who influenced Degas and his work. "A beautiful meditation on the interplay of art, time, and memory, that is itself a luminous portrait of a woman without vision who […]

  • Ursula Werner reads from The Good at Heart

    Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Ursula Werner reads from The Good at Heart, a novel based on her great grandfather's reluctant participation in Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1945. "Powerfully portrays the inner struggles of ordinary people moved to do extraordinary things in the name of family, God, and country."--Booklist Based on the author’s discoveries about her great-grandfather, this stunning […]

  • Bolshoi Ballet: A Contemporary Evening

    Rialto Cinemas Elmwood 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Showings at 1 & 7pm For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a new challenge with audacity in Hans Van Manen's Frank Bridge's Variations, Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot's Short Time Together and Alexei Ratmansky's Russian Seasons. This encounter between some of the best dancers in the world and masters of contemporary choreography results in […]

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    1984: A Nationwide event

    Rialto Cinemas Elmwood 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    On April 4, 2017, over 180 art house movie theatres across the country in 165 cities and in 43 states, plus five locations in Canada, one in England, and one in Swedenftower will be participating collectively in a NATIONAL EVENT DAY screening of the 80's movie 1984 starring John Hurt, who sadly died last month. […]

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    Bolshoi Ballet: A Contemporary Evening

    Rialto Cinemas Elmwood 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Showings at 1 & 7pm For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a new challenge with audacity in Hans Van Manen's Frank Bridge's Variations, Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot's Short Time Together and Alexei Ratmansky's Russian Seasons. This encounter between some of the best dancers in the world and masters of contemporary choreography results in […]

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    For Kids! Dashka Slater presents Escargot

    Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Launch party for her new picture book, Escargot, a charming, funny, interactive picture book that is ideal for picky eaters and animal lovers alike. Dashka Slater has written several picture books, including Baby Shoes and The Sea Serpent and Me, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection. She is also an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, The New York Times […]

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    National Theatre Live Presents Twelfth Night

    Rialto Cinemas Elmwood 2966 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and […]

  • A Sixteen Rivers Press Launch Celebration with Poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener

    Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Reading from new collections, Body, in Good Light and This Sweet Haphazard, respectively. About Erin Rodoni’s Body, in Good Light: Throughout this debut collection, Rodoni distills experience for its essence, rendered in language that is fierce, tender, penetrating in its precision, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer, the half-smile scar […]

  • Edie Meidav discussing Kingdom of the Young

    Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Edie Meidav in Conversation with Larry Bensky discussing Meidav's story collection, Kingdom of the Young. "Ambitious, original, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the cronicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino."--Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution The dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure, work, love, absolution, better chances elsewhere. In a […]