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support and performance opportunities to talented, young Marin County students of classical music, is the grand finale for The Mill Valley Chamber Music Society’s season. chambermusic millvalley.org
COMEDY MAY 6–8 Russell Peters Recently named one of Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Comics of All Time, the Canadian native is perhaps best known for his stand-up special, “Russell Peters Deported” on Amazon Prime. cobbscomedy.com
FILM MAY 15 La Traviata Richard Eyre’s production for The Royal Opera of Verdi’s scene of tragic love in 19thcentury Paris is rife with famous arias and plenty of drama. rafaelfilm.cafilm.org SFMOMA Nature x Humanity
MUSEUMS ARTS & LECTURES MAY 6–JUNE 5 The Government Inspector Not unlike a Marx Brothers comedy, mistaken identity and local corruption drive this 19th-century classic comedy of errors by
Nikolai Gogol. rossvalleyplayers.com
risk for freedom?” risajaroslowdance.org
MAY 12–22 Talking Circle An evening-length work with a multigenerational cast, including two members of The Elders Project, explores the relationship between individual and collective and asks: “What will we
MAY 26–JUNE 19 The Sound Inside The West Coast premiere of Adam Rapp’s Tony-nominated thriller looks at the lives of a brilliant Ivy League writing professor with a dark secret, a talented yet mysterious student
and an unthinkable favor. marintheatre.org
MUSIC MAY 15 Young Artists’ Concert Up-andcoming classical music performers, a part of Marin Music Chest that provides financial
THROUGH MAY 15 Nature x Humanity Bringing together knowledge, principles and tools from art, architecture, design, engineering and science, this review of Oxman Architects from 2007 to the present focuses on the role of architects in the age of climate change. sfmoma.org
THROUGH JUNE 5 Ice Show New work by Marin-based artist Bill Russell uses the iceberg as a visual metaphor to communicate the brutal changes wrought by climate change in an educational series of multidisciplinary works. marinmoca.org
EVENTS MAY 22, 29 Hello, Dolly! The Mountain Play storms back into live theater with high-energy dancing and songs that tell the tale of the romantic and comic exploits of Dolly Gallaher-Levi, a turn-of-the-century matchmaker. mountainplay.org MAY 5–11 DocLands The California Film Institute returns to San Rafael with a slate of documentary films (in theater and virtual) in three broad categories: Wonderlands, the Great Outdoors and the Art of Impact. doclands.com MAY 7 Bon Air 70th Birthday Bash The community is invited to share in a landmark birthday of Greenbrae’s signature shopping center, with live music from Bread & Roses Presents and hands-on activities for community members of all ages. bonair.com MAY 12 Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant The Large Carnivore Ecologist
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