.Arts & Culture

Cellist Jacqueline du Pré died at 42 of complications from multiple sclerosis. But during her brief, brilliant life, she was “a supernova,” said Marnie Breckenridge, the soprano who will portray her in West Edge Opera’s production of...

Setting out to resolve a puzzling question about why women over the age of 50 choose or are forced into lives of fear over flat-out fun and fulfillment, New York Times bestselling writer Caroline Paul uncovered the...

John Santos has been playing congas, cajón, timbales and dozens of other percussion instruments for most of his life. The Bay Area’s music scene would not be as rich and varied as it is without his input....

The pandemic was hard on live theaters. Many small companies did not survive it. But innovative and scrappy Oakland Theater Project was able to draw inspiration from its home, scrappy and innovative The Town, and will now...

Lark in the Morning is a Berkeley store featuring over 1,500 instruments from around the world, many of which are handmade by craftspeople, and is owned by Eric Azumi, a musician and businessperson who bought the store to fulfill his passion for music.

Taylor Mac and collaborator Matt Ray's four-hour "rock opera meditation on queerness," featuring 55 songs from all genres of American music, will be presented at Zellerbach Hall in February, while Pina Bausch's dance to Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," first performed in 1975, will be presented by an ensemble of more than 30 dancers from 14 African countries in February.

One would never think the best gifts for giving gustatory, olfactory and optical satisfaction—respectively, taste, smell and sight—would come from a factory, a nonprofit community kitchen seeking to boost the food security of people in need, a...