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THROUGH APR 24 Hotter Than Egypt Set in the aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution, this play written by Yussef El Guindi looks at a couple’s journey to Cairo to celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary, where troubles brew, drawing in their newly engaged Egyptian tour guides. marintheatre.org MAR 24–MAY 1 Fefu and Her Friends Utilizing the multistoried, multi-roomed Strand Theater as nontraditional theater space, this story is told as the audience, broken up into groups, tour Fefu’s home. Here, a comedy-drama of eight women gathering at a New England country home in 1935 unfolds in gossip, flirtations and provocations. act-sf.org APR 3 Chamber Music The San Francisco
Hotter Than Egypt playwright Yussef El Guindi
Symphony has returned to the Legion of Honor’s Gunn Theater for a small ensemble performance that will include Bach’s Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in A Major and Beethoven’s Piano Trip in B-flat Major, “Archduke.” sfsymphony.org APR 7, 9 The Book of Dust A live recording from the National Theatre in London captures La Belle Sauvage, a piece of Philip Pullman’s trilogy. It’s set in a fantastical world where two young people and a tiny child find themselves at the center of a terrifying manhunt while they fight off owerful adversaries. larktheater.net APR 9 English Baroque Soloists An all-Mozart program from the U.K.based group lead by Sir John Eliot Gardiner includes the Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, Symphony #32 in G major, and Symphony #39 in
Guo Pei
E-flat major. live.stanford.edu APR 22 F. Murray Abraham The renowned actor (Amadeus, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Showtime’s “Homeland”) joins the Oakland Symphony as a narrator for this program that includes Mendelssohn’s “A Midnight Summer’s Dream Suite,” Mozart’s Violin Concerto #5
“Turkish,” and Libby Larson’s “Evening in the Palace of Reason.” oaklandsymphony.org
MUSIC APR 8 Stone Foxes After a two-year hiatus, the San Francisco band is back on the road with a stop in Sebastopol to debut new music, as well as play some old favorites. hopmonk.com
APR 10 New Esterhazy Quartet The quartets of Franz Josef Haydn played on period instruments is the idea behind this group dedicated to reproducing the unique sound Haydn intended. chambermusicmill valley.org APR 23–24 Carmina Burana The Marin Symphony closes out the Masterworks season with Orff’s
magnum opus, as conducted by Alasdair Neale. marincounty.org
COMEDY APR 19–20 Nigel Ng This Malaysian standup went viral in July 2020 for his portrayal of “Uncle Roger,” a middle-aged Asian man reviewing an egg fried rice video. He brings his schtick, a.k.a. the
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