Tickets are $17 and can be purchased in person at the Lesher Center ticket office, or online at www.lesherartscenter.org or by calling 925-943-7469. Paintings, sculpture at Moraga Art Gallery show. Moraga Art Gallery’s new show, “Capturing Moments of Motion,” features paintings by Josie Osolin and figurative ceramic sculpture by Fred Yokel. There will also be works by the gallery’s 15 member artists and guest artists in the exhibit that runs through June 4. The gallery is in the Rheem Shopping Center, 522 Center St., in Moraga. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday. For more information, call 925-376-5407 or visit www.moragaartgallery.com or email moragaartgallery@gmail.com.
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Brandon Jackson, who is directing the production, says, “The story of ‘Cabaret’ dates all the way back to Isherwood’s 1929, “The Berlin Stories.” I’ve read Isherwood describe how he wanted to write a book about people who were rejected by society as some way scandalous or improper. I wonder whom he’d write about today. When the first stage production of ‘Cabaret’ premiered on Broadway in the ’60s, America was dealing with its fair share of social issues, namely the civil rights movement. For all that has changed since that time, we unfortunately are still very much a divided society. ‘Cabaret’ asks us to question the artificial indicators that separate us, to understand that people are people, and to reconsider how we treat those different from us.”.
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Soprano Rebecca Davis and tenor Andrew Whitfield, dressed as upscale modern diners, trotted from Lark Creek Walnut Creek to Prima Ristorante to Massimo’s during the dinner hour, bursting into inspired song at each location as their designated characters, Violetta and Alfredo, pretended to encounter one another from opposite sides of the room. It was all part of the stealth marketing plan Festival Opera’s new executive director, Sara Nealy, deployed to draw attention to the opera production, which opens the company’s 20th season Saturday night at the Lesher Center for the Arts. It’s also a tactic she used successfully in her last job, when she was promoting Livermore Valley Opera’s rendition of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in August.
