• 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Joan Frank reads from her new novel, All the News I Need, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction administered by UMass Press.

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

    Joan Frank reads from her new novel, All the News I Need, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction admiistered by UMass Press. "A deep dive into the heart of friendship, of memory and regret, of aging and loss... redemptive and wholly satisfying surprises...Joan Frank has gifted us with two unforgettable characters in a novel […]

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

    Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour) and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard's brilliantly funny situation comedy, captured live from The Old Vic theatre in London. Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take […]

  • Jacqueline Winspear reads from her latest Maisie Dobbs adventure, In This Grave Hour.

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

    Jacqueline Winspear reads from her latest Maisie Dobbs adventure, In This Grave Hour. "A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks […]

  • The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell

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

    W. Kamau Bell (OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT @ STARLINE SOCIAL CLUB) presents The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. Tickets only at Eventbrite: $40, includes book. A very limited number of tickets available without book. […]

  • Elmwood Block Party

    Elmwood Business Association College and Ashby, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Come out for a weekend of fun: Click here for Full List of Sales We have so many wonderful things planned for the Block Party: May 6th-7th Sales (1) - check out all the amazing sales and promotions at our stores Free Muppet Movie at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood at noon on Saturday Musicians 1-5 Saturday & Sunday […]