A Christmas Memory

Theater Review: ‘A Christmas Memory’ @ TheatreWorks

Christmas, the season of giving, is as much about what is missing from our lives as it is about our extraordinary wealth.
Matthew LaBanca and Anna Aimee White in San Jose Repertory Theatre's Co-Production of Backwards in High Heels. Photo by Tim Fuller.

Theater Review: Ginger Rogers dances on air in ‘Backwards in High Heels’

Chalk one up for women that are willful, head strong, and utterly uncontrollable.
For the holidays, Berkeley Rep presents a deliciously silly world premiere: Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead stars Geoff Hoyle as an inspector investigating a crime in an orchestra of marionettes. Photo courtesy of kevinberne.com

Theater Review: All hell breaks loose at Berkeley Rep’s ‘Composer is Dead’

Last night was easily the most trouble-prone opening night I've ever witnessed.
Eric Petersen, Alan Mingo, Jr. and Haven Burton Photo by Joan Marcus

Theater Review: ‘Shrek the Musical’ celebrates swamp gas, undersized rulers

Or maybe it's what an Elvis flashback what look like on hallucinogens.
Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

Berkeley: Aurora Theatre Company announces new works finalists

"There were approximately 220 submissions this year, the majority of which were focused on the topics of the home front and family."

Theater Review: ‘Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party’

This highly amusing satire on the state of our current political discourse is really about intolerance, bigotry and hypocrisy, in no particular order.

Theater Review: ‘The Color Purple’

An American classic in shades of purple.
Amelia Earhart: Flights of Fancy

Amelia Earhart flies again

I want to go to my next board meeting, tricked out as Amelia Earhart, or better yet, as the mustachioed French cameraman.

Theater Review: ‘Every Christmas Story Ever Told’ at San Jose Stage

This hilarious family-friendly fun-filled evening is The Stage’s Christmas gift to south bay audiences. Don’t miss it.
Stephen Bent as Zossima, Paul Magid as Dimitri, Roderick Kimball as Pavel, and Mark Ettinger as Alexei in The Flying Karamazov Brothers' production of 4Play at San Jose Repertory Theatre.

The Flying Karamazov Brothers thrill with ‘4Play’

The Brothers are a bit like Blue Man Group, but without the body paint and shaved heads.