Lin Manuel Miranda

Berkeley Playhouse’s production of “In the Heights” taps into a joy unique to community theater, making for a fitting homage to its heart-filled neighborhood subject. 

My connection to Sondheim began as so many others did: on the stage of a high school auditorium.

The film is a stunning musical adaptation and biographical film that excellently balances rising tension with cathartic release, telling a riveting artist’s journey that everyone can appreciate.

Despite a few minor flaws, “Encanto” succeeds as a strong addition to Disney’s repertoire — and the most original and musically exciting one in a while.

The perfect musical is still on the way, but we can make an allowance for the sake of this new, hopelessly dreamy summer classic.

This summer shapes up as a season of options: variety in the movies to choose and variety in the ways to watch them. Here are movies slated for the summer.

Preceding a roundtable interview with the rest of the cast, writers Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes explained their practice of “Paciencia y Fe” (patience and faith) to The Daily Californian.

"His Dark Materials" is faithful to a fault: It adapts nearly every detail from the source material, sacrificing even dynamic pacing in the process.

With warmly cinematic prowess, each storyteller reads their letter while traipsing through their hometowns, soccer fields, college campuses or wherever else their individual journeys of growth and realization took place.

Although the theater is currently closed to patrons, Lins said Berkeley Playhouse has not stopped working to provide theater to the Berkeley community, even amid the chaos of a pandemic.