#berkeley rep

[adrianna-m-scovill]

Ok, I’m ready to see this show let’s gooooo 😭

[thatesqcrush]

[dreamer679]

Saw Galileo this past Saturday for my birthday. Second row. Can’t believe how close I was to Raul. The man is more gorgeous in person *sigh* 😍

[choosejoyangel]

What a joy to just see a snippet of someone and something so beautiful. I would like to see him on stage. Someday, my dream will come true. :)

[xather2]

First curtain call for Galileo 🔭 ✨

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Suspenders, and what appears to be leather trousers AND boots in the first image? Oh, oh my 🥵

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From Reddit: Galileo at Berkeley Rep : r/Broadway (reddit.com)

[ghostwithateacup]

Just saw Galileo at Berkeley Rep and... wow. It's showing till June 23rd, and I cannot recommend it enough.

[keepthisholykiss]

Holy. shit. Yesterday we headed over to Berkeley Rep to see a world premiere play adaptation of The Thing About Jellyfish and I know it's only on for one more week but I am screaming and shouting to go see this if you have access to it. I am too old to have heard about the book of the same name when it was released in 2015. However, the audience had a lot of kids in it who had read the book and were so excited about how well the story was portrayed. I am a tried and true projections in performing arts hater and the projection work as set design in this show is one of the most beautiful things I have seen major props to Lucy Mackinnon who did the projection design on this show.

Matilda Lawler, the lead actress, is one of the most talented people I have ever watched on stage at only 16 years old. The entire cast was amazing but her ability to portray Suzy was incredible. Christiana Clark was another standout performance in this work, she made me sob and laugh equally.

The story was portrayed for what I think would be appropriate for both kids and adults with each age group walking away with a different and equally impactful experience. The show tells an important story in a well-written and well-directed way that never felt out of touch or misguided. I will not at all be surprised when this show goes on to win who knows how many awards and this cast evolves their careers into mountains of success.

[dannygpino]

Not Raúl Esparza just dropping the bomb that he (recently?) recorded the Miscast 2022 version of "Come To Your Senses"????? And he's doing Miscast this year by singing a song from his first Miscast???????

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Seth Mandel

There was a revealing moment at a congressional hearing on anti-Semitism in elementary-school curricula about a year ago. Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Republican from California, asked Enikia Ford Morthel, the superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District, about a Berkeley lesson that states: “for some Palestinians, ‘From the River to the Sea’ is a call for freedom and peace.”

Morthel defended the lesson, to which Kiley very reasonably responded: “You put this on a slide in the classroom and then students go around in the halls saying it. I don’t think there’s anything surprising about that.”

Quite so. Children in America are being taught to repeat genocidal slogans about Jews.

A couple of months ago, I wrote about another such moment—this one at a state hearing involving the infamous Massachusetts Teachers Association and various anti-Semitic lesson plans. One was a grade-school workbook for kids in kindergarten and first grade called Handala’s Return, which featured on its front page a map of Israel and Gaza and the West Bank all labeled “Palestine.” Israel did not exist in this lesson plan. Handala explains that “Zionists” took her family’s home by force and won’t let her back even though she has the key. The students are then asked to draw their own home and key, presumably to imagine their own sadness were the Jews to come and take their home away.

At the end of the workbook—again, designed for children about five or six years old—is a page titled “Help Handala Free Palestine.” The students are instructed to write on the page what they will do, specifically, to “raise funds for the children of Palestine” and what they will chant at a “Palestine protest.”

There have been endless examples, documented here and elsewhere, of anti-Semitism in American grade-school lesson plans, but I chose these two because they specifically shine a light on the fact that young children here are being drafted as child soldiers into “the Palestinian struggle.” They are not simply taught bad things about Jews; they are taught to act on them from a very young age.

Will American children get their own Farfour, too? Inevitably. America’s Farfour-ward slide is well under way.

[pattytasm]

Sunday matinne Jun 16th 2024 Berkeley Rep

Guapísimo Raúl, atento con todos, y nos habló en español.

[ars-amatoria]

This is the closest I've come to agreeing with a review of GALILEO A ROCK MUSICAL -- it's walking a thin line between enthusiasm and cringe that is great for audiences but critical poison.

But this reviewer thinks that adding irony would save it, when I'm pretty sure it would pop the bubble. I spent the first 30 seconds of the show like "oh no is this going to be embarrassing?" But the entire cast was all in on it and that helped me relax and rock out to a series of 80s power ballads about the conflict and overlap between science and religion. Winking at the material would deflate it.

I don't think this show is going to be a lasting classic, but I desperately need it to survive long enough to make a soundtrack to power me though doing chores (also I NEED the rock convocation of Pope Urban VIII to make it to YouTube)

[thatesqcrush]

[greendayauthority]

The first photoshoot of the 21st Century Breakdown era at the Berkeley Rep Theater for Alternative Press

[choosejoyangel]

He never fails to make me smile. Raúl is a bright light who sparkles and shines like a beautiful diamond. He and everyone who made this production possible deserve gratitude for what they do. I pray for their successes in all that they do, bringing joy! I love seeing Raúl wear his crucifix. God makes no mistakes, only miracles. :) 🫶🏽

[svu-barisi]

From Berkeley Rep's Instagram.

Oh my God! This looks and sounds amazing!

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Janet Jackson Apologizes for Kamala Harris ‘Confusion’

WHOOPS NOW

“She deeply respects Vice President Kamala Harris and her accomplishments as a Black and Indian woman,” a spokesperson for Jackson said.

Sean Craig

Published Sep. 22, 2024 1:19PM EDT 

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Singer Janet Jackson apologized through a representative for claiming Vice President Kamala Harris, who is Black, is “not Black.”

“She’s not Black,” said Jackson, in an interview with The Guardian newspaper published Saturday. “That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian. Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white.”

Harris, of course, is not half-white and is very much Black. Her father is Donald Harris, a Jamaican-American economist who was the first Black scholar to receive a tenured position at Stanford’s economics department.

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Harris, who graduated from leading historically Black university Howard, has frequently spoken about her Black identity in politics. She also once joked, when asked if she’d ever smoked marijuana, “Half my family’s from Jamaica, are you kidding me?”

She is also Indian. Her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a medical scientist who worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was originally from Chennai.

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A spokesperson for Jackson told BuzzFeed her comments were “based on misinformation.”

“She deeply respects Vice President Kamala Harris and her accomplishments as a Black and Indian woman,” the spokesperson added. “Janet apologizes for any confusion caused and acknowledges the importance of accurate representation in public discourse. We appreciate the opportunity to address this and will remain committed to promoting unity.”

Jackson’s rep didn’t explain how that information came to her.

Former president Donald Trump—Harris’ opponent in this year’s presidential election—has polluted the public conversation about Harris’ race, making false claims that Harris misled voters about her background

“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black,” Trump told the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago last month. “I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”

At least Janet Jackson now knows the answer is “both.”

Sean Craig

@sdbcraig

ALL I GOTTA SAY IS:

Who pulled that old has-been's chain?