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The exhibition is centered on four creative communities active in Northern California between the 1930s and the present day. Included are “Patronage, Public Art, and Allegory of California,” “Postwar at the California School of Fine Arts,” “A New Art Department at UC Davis” and “The Mission Scene.” Works range from monumental paintings to handwritten letters. It is jointly curated by Drew Johnson and René de Guzman of OMCA and Janet Bishop, Caitlin Haskell and Peter Samis of SFMOMA. The exhibition includes works by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri and Deborah Butterfield, among others.

“After getting to know John at MMDG, it’s been great to see him come up with physical manifestations of his quirky, sensitive, robust personality,” Bolingbroke says, “He and Mark Morris have very different musical tastes, He doesn’t always work score in hand, and the music he draws on is more electronic, which is reflected in this program.”, Other festival highlights include the world premiere of Pearl Marill’s “Some Bodies Confessional” on Aug, 10-11, and the body music of Keith Terry & Corposonic on Aug, 12, A particularly intriguing collaboration takes place Aug, 17 essie nagellack ballet slippers queen with the pairing of San Jose Taiko, now in its fifth decade and still going strong, and BangerZ, a San Diego-raised, Las Vegas-based DJ who draws on an array of sources, particularly hip-hop, reggae and electronica..

Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale: Presents a sing-along concert, “Carols in the California”; 7 p.m. Dec. 13; California Theatre, San Jose; $26-$36; 408-286-2600, www.symphonysiliconvalley.org. Oakland East Bay Symphony: Annual holiday show “Let Us Break Bread Together” honors folk legend Pete Seeger; 5 p.m. Dec. 14; Paramount Theatre, Oakland; $15-$55; www.oebs.org. Magnificat: Presents Francesco Cavalli’s “A Venetian Christmas Mass”; Dec. 19-21 in Palo Alto, San Francisco and Berkeley; $30-$35; 510-528-1725, http://sfems.org.

The Popovich Comedy Pet Theater, which received rave reviews last year, returns for 2015, The show features Gregory Popovich and 30 trained animals including dogs, cats, geese, birds and mice in a comedy/circus act, Richmond native Alex Ramon Magic debuted two years ago at this event, and is back this year with his unique brand of magic, Other favorites returning this year include Fantasy Forum Actors Ensemble, who will perform their essie nagellack ballet slippers queen interactive version of “The Crimson Pirate;” the Emmy award-nominated Pushcart Players, who will perform the classic “Alice in Wonderland.”..

“Britney,” subtitled, “a Snarky Musical Adventure,” does get a bit snarky, but mainly with Britney’s mom, who emerges as something of a stage mother from hell, who bought a swimming pool with Brit’s first big paycheck. “And I never saw my dog after that,” Britney says, adding that mom also made her rehearse long beyond the point where her perky blondness drooped, and threatened her with career failure if she reached for even a small slice of pie. The show does not feature Spears songs, but serves up both pop songs in the Britney style — “Millionaire Whore” — and Broadway homage numbers, which are hilarious and delivered with the sort of self-referential humor that will delight musical comedy fans.