Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California’s Central Coast has lots of venues for performing arts, plays and concerts — including The Great American Melodrama ...

Lorde released her second album, Melodrama, in 2017. It received a nomination for Album of the Year at the Grammys. She began to feel overwhelmed by the exuberant reaction. “This thing that was my ...

Aimé is a Haitian construction worker and poet played by acclaimed actor Jimmy Jean-Louis (left), who meets Sonia, a wealthy white Dominican widow portrayed by actress Mercedes Morales. Love, loss, ...

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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist: Melodrama. Adapted from the novel and directed by Neil Bartlett. (Through June 24. Berkeley Repertory s Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. Two hours, 20 minutes.