It is entirely possible that American Idiot is one of those ephemeral miracles that can’t exist outside of a particular point in time. It’s worth asking whether this one can – or even if it should.

The fifth Broadway San Jose season will start in October of 2013 with the Bay Area exclusive engagement of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, followed by a new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic Evita.

You’re sure to have a great time with rock concert moves #1 – #5, and even more with “Shake that Thang.” However, if you’ve caught their act once, you may want to think twice above a repeat visit.

Openings: Blue Man Group in San Jose, ‘The Happy Ones’ at Magic Theatre in San Francisco, ‘Being Earnest’ at TheatreWorks in Mountain View, and ‘The Arsonists’ at Aurora Theatre in Berkeley.

The musical energy in Memphisis everything that you’d expect from a score written by Bon Jovi keyboard player, David Byron, and with lyrics penned by Joe DiPietro.

Why do we feel the need to project such goodness upon some externalized other who brings order to our households and happiness to our children – as if it was something entirely beyond our ken?

Theatre that stays with you invariably has at least one actor with such compassion and understanding of his character that he completely inhabits it.

Direct from Broadway, the smash-hit musical ‘American Idiot’ tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia.

This experience triggered new insights into the choreography and the blocking. Ensemble characters related in ways that I’d never seen before. Dance scenes could have been drawn out with arrows across the stage as if it were a football play.

In 2009 we set out on a mission. Our goal was to fill the gap left by traditional media’s cutback in local arts coverage. It all began with The Kite Runner at the SJ Rep.