“I knew when I started out that I wanted something very different from what Mom and Dad had anyway, but I didn’t know quite what — I didn’t know how it would manifest — but even they look at it and go, ‘Whoa,’ ” Cumberbatch says. “It’s beyond everyone’s sort of expectation. But also the workload and everything, it’s different to their game.”. It’s enough to turn a boy’s head. But Cumberbatch, along with such contemporaries as Michael Fassbender, is forging the kind of career that actors covet these days, combining recurring roles in huge franchises like “Star Trek” and “The Hobbit” with artier indie fare. His role model, he says, is James McAvoy (his one-time co-star in “Starter for 10”), who along with Fassbender appears in the “X-Men” movies.

Of course, “West Side Story” is nothing without Bernstein’s incredible musical score, and music director Rick Reynolds does his best with a medium-sized orchestra, augmenting it with synthesizer keyboard riffs and some recorded passages, A shoutout goes to Michael Veizades for his drumming (especially in “Cool” where the dancers snap their fingers ballet shoes gold coast in juxtaposition to the drummer’s beats), which adds a needed vibrancy to several songs, Kudos also to fight choreographer Zoe Swenson-Graham, who was able to make the street fights – even when knives were used – look genuine and frightening..

National Geographic Live! Capturing the Impossible: 7:30 p.m. April 3, Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose. A NatGeo filmmaker shares behind-the-scenes moments from his assignments to document extreme feats and high adventure in the world’s most challenging environments. $29-$46. www.hammertheatre.com. A Queen of the Mist: April 5-28, Tabard Theatre, 29 N. San Pedro St., San Jose. Michael John LaChiusa’s musical is based on the true story of teacher Anna Edson Taylor, who in 1901 at the age of 63, wanted to make a name for herself — so she took her life and destiny in her own hands to become the first woman to go over Niagara Falls. $38-$48. www.tabardtheatre.org/tickets.

McClure values his “genius type teachers,” remembering in particular the “love, light, and myriad possibilities of consciousness” he learned from Dylan, On Christmas, 2013, he and his wife, sculptor Amy Evans McClure, visited a nearby, unprotected beach, “I had a copy of Ghost Tantras and started reading them aloud, above the roar of ballet shoes gold coast the waves, I realized I was finally learning how to read them — less timidly,” he says, Although he doesn’t plan to write an autobiography, McClure says he would like to see his plays “The Bear” and “The Victims” republished..

This year’s 22nd annual event will take place at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, Dec. 9, but the programming will be a bit different. Throughout the years Wonder has played all of his 32 No. 1 singles, deep cuts, Christmas songs and beyond all while being joined by a rotating cast of top-notch performers including Tony Bennett, John Legend, Lionel Richie, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, Common, Andra Day, Pharrell Williams and more. This year, however, Wonder said during a news conference held at the Novo at L.A. Live on Tuesday morning, that his heart was a bit heavy this year and he was feeling for those who “lost their dreams, their homes … and unfortunately their lives,” during the recent California wild fires.