Events Around the Bay
January 10 – February 9, 2025
My long awaited Felder’s new play is here!! TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will ring in 2025 with the return of internationally acclaimed virtuoso pianist/performer Hershey Felder in Hershey Felder & Jonathan Silvestri play “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.”
Music by Rachmaninoff. In this new production, Felder portrays composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff alongside British-Italian actor Jonathan Silvestri in the role of Tsar Nicolas II. Having safely left Russia during the 1917 revolution, Rachmaninoff eventually made his home in Beverly Hills, but always longed for the Tsarist Russia that he knew and loved as a young man. Featuring Rachmaninoff’s most beloved compositions, this promises to be another mystical musical journey in the Hershey Felder style that TheatreWorks audiences have been privileged to enjoy in record-breaking hit productions that brought to life composers including George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Irving Berlin, Claude Debussy and Ludwig van Beethoven.
“Hershey Felder’s productions are unique, spellbinding, brilliant, extremely original and completely fascinating. Once you see his play you become totally devoted and infatuated with his art of creating the most amazing theater experience. It’s a priceless gift! Yes, I am a huge fan!” said Lina Broydo.
See you next month in Mountain View, maybe even in February, if I can get a ticket…
Information
For tickets call 877-662-8978 or visit theatreworks.org.
Mountain View Center for Performing Arts; 500 Castro Street in Mountain View
Photos courtesy of TheatreWorks
Shen Yun – Will Dazzle the Audiences with Their Artistic Beauty of Ancient China
Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision is totally mesmerizing and it extends its theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, inspiring journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures – the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture.
December 26, 2024 Through March 12, 2025
Featuring one of the world’s oldest art forms – classical Chinese dance – along with innovative multimedia modern effects and all-original orchestral works. Shen Yun’s performance is truly stunning.
Information
888-633-6999
ShenYun.com/CA
Some Like it Hot in San Francisco!! And so will you!
January 7–26, 2025
Winner of 4 Tony Awards®, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes and the Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theater Album, SOME LIKE IT HOT is “A Super-Sized, All-Out Song-And-Dance Spectacular!” – The New York Times Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the “glorious, big, high-kicking” (Associated Press) story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit.
With gangsters hot on their heels, they catch a cross-country train for the life-chasing, life-changing trip of a lifetime. And what a trip it is! With its irresistible combination of heart and laughs, song and dance, SOME LIKE IT HOT won more theater awards than any show in its season, and was named Best Musical by the Drama Desk, The Drama League, and the Outer Critics Circle. No wonder Deadline calls it “a tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling embrace of everything you love about musical theater.” Convinced? Get your tickets now!
Information: somelikeithotmusical.com.
Photo courtesy of some like it hot musical
Japanese New Year Bell-Ringing Ceremony on December 29, 2024 at 1pm
Ring in the New Year by taking a swing at a 2,100-pound, 16th-century Japanese temple bell. Led by Reverend Gengo Akiba, this inspiring ceremony will include a purification ritual and chanting of the Buddhist Heart Sutra.
Visitors will have an opportunity to ring the bell to leave behind any unfortunate experiences, regrettable deeds, or ill luck from the year. The bell will be struck 108 times to usher in the New Year. Visitors are encouraged to purchase general admission tickets prior to arriving at the museum. An admission ticket guarantees entry; a separate, numbered ticket is required to ring the bell.
Information
415-581-3500
Doors open 10:30 AM–12 PM | Member Bell-Ringing; 1–2:30 PM | Public Bell-Ringing Tours and Storytelling at 11 AM | Storytelling (pre-K)
Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street in San Francisco
Photo courtesy of the Asian Art Museum
By Lina Broydo
