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Celebrate 50 Years of Art in the Park
MARTINEZ, Calif. – Discover something delightful, entertaining, amusing, thought-provoking, delicious or just fun at Art in the Park. The 50th annual Martinez Arts Association (MAA) event will be held...
View ArticleTwo great productions worth the drive
By CHARLIE JARRETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist This week’s two reviews take us first to San Francisco for some thought-provoking discourse on the pain of segregation to children and their families,...
View ArticleProduction tackles political climate
By CHARLIEJARRETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist In The Great American Sh*T Show, Brian Copeland and Charlie Varon are now engaging audiences through meaningful monologues revealing their own deeply...
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Two productions take on classic plays
By CHARLIE JARRETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist In his first hit play, The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams wrote a heartfelt story based on his own life and that of his domineering mother, still...
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Two top-notch community theater productions
By CHARLIE JARRETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist Claire Stevenson as Miss Laura Fairlie in “The Woman in White.” First this week, the very intriguing murder mystery play in Orinda, “The Woman in...
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‘Camping With Henry and Tom’ a tightly crafted character study at the...
By SCOTT BABA Art and Entertainment Editor Henry Ford (Wayne McRice), Thomas Edison (Gary Mutz), and President Warren Harding (Mark Hinds) argue while lost in the woods in ‘Camping With Henry and Tom.’...
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Witty and thought-provoking production shines at Campbell
By CHARLIE JARRETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist Henry Ford (Wayne McRice), Thomas Edison (Gary Mutz), and president Warren Harding (Mark Hinds) This week’s promise of double billed theatrical events...
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‘Insignificance’ at the Campbell Theater is an elegant, thoughtful piece of...
By SCOTT BABA Art and Entertainment Editor Senator Joe McCarthy (Randy Anger) threatens Albert Einstein (Jerry Motta) with an investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee in...
View ArticleNational Park Service hosts free campfire program
“My fire was in all its glory about midnight…I had nothing to do but look and listen and join the trees in their hymns and prayers.” – John Muir, Travels in Alaska Join the National Park Service for a...
View ArticleCurtain call for Danville theater; road trip to Oregon
By CHARLIE JARRETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist This week’s reviews are unique indeed in that you only have to drive 9.7 miles to the first show reviewed (in Danville) or 300 miles and spend one or...
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Dia de los Muertos event held in downtown Martinez
Main Street was full of costumed artists and their creations, at the Nov. 2 celebration. Dressed as a Mexican revolutionary a Dia de los Muertos event coordinator for the Martinez Arts Association,...
View ArticleTwo great shows this week; one for the kids, and one for the grown-ups
By CHARLIE JARRETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist Two great shows this week; one primarily for children or the young at heart the California theater in Pittsburgh, and the other entirely for adults...
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Harry Potter is a must-see production
By CHARLIE JARETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist Today, I am indeed fortunate to be able to share with you the incredible West Coast official world premiere opening of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and...
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Top-notch Bay Area holiday productions
By CHARLIE JARRETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist Henry Halkyard (the Prince) and Dennis Markam (the wicked Stepmother) in Cinderella photo by Jay Yamada. Once again, I’m excited to share with you my...
View ArticleTwo unique takes on Christmas Carol
By CHARLIE JARRETT Martinez News-Gazette Columnist This time of the year often delivers fond memories for us of stories that we have read and plays that we have seen that bring us messages of love,...
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2020 BottleRock Announces Lineup
Courtesy of Stephen Langsam (Martinez News-Gazette) Jan 6 at 10:27 AM January 6, 2020 Napa, CA — BottleRock Napa Valley 2020, presented by JaM Cellars, announces its eighth annual festival lineup...
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Glass Menagerie shines at Campbell Theater
by Charlie Jarrett The Martinez Campbell Theater is truly becoming an even more “Go-to Theatrical Venue” for the entire East Bay Area, as the quality and variety of shows continue to get better and...
View ArticleEntertainment via computers
For a guy who was born in Las Vegas and whose parents were professional entertainers in the 30s, being shut in without access to theatrical entertainment of some kind, would probably drive me crazy. We...
View ArticleCali Roots Announce New Online Experience
Story Contributor Stephen Langsam CALIFORNIA ROOTS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ONLINE MUSIC FESTIVAL WITH A MASSIVE LINE UP! Monterey, CA (May 19, 2020) – California Roots Music Festival is excited to...
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MAA 2020 art scholarships awarded
Martinez Arts Association Awards $4,000 in Scholarships to Seniors MARTINEZ, CA – In what turned out to be a very different season for graduating seniors, Alhambra students proved resilient and...
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