‘Avenue Q’ opens tonight: Bring on the cussing, nude, singing puppets
Tonight, Avenue Q presented by Broadway San Jose, opens downtown at the Center for the Performing Arts. The show is the fourth in a wickedly…
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Cutting Ball Theater Hidden Classics Reading Series “Medea VS. Medea” January 31
Co-founded in 1999 by theater artists Rob Melrose and Paige Rogers, Cutting Ball Theater presents avant-garde works of the past, present, and future by re-envisioning…
Gone in 60 Seconds: Speed-the-Plow at Pear, Auto Show, Painting, The Fillmore
It was another great weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area to get out there and take in some theater, arts, and entertainment. From San…
Theater review: ‘Speed-the-Plow’ brimming with intense, smart dialog at The Pear Theatre
So what will it be: an action-packed summer blockbuster prison movie, or a cerebral, somewhat depressing film about radiation and the end of the world?…
Exploring the streets of Rome with oils
I wanted to give you an update on my fourth painting. The subject matter is a photo I took while exploring the streets of Rome.…
The new school of Rock?
The world is digital. This we know. We may not like it, but the future (and present) lies in streaming video, music, podcasts, magazines…
Aurora Theatre Company presents world premiere of Joel Drake Johnson’s “The First Grade”
Aurora Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of lauded Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson’s THE FIRST GRADE. Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross…
A quiet 30th anniversary celebration for James Reber and the San Jose Rep
30 years ago today, on Jan. 8, 1980, James P. Reber drove his VW up to Sacramento and incorporated the San Jose Repertory Company. It’s…
‘It Might Get Loud’ … and you’ll love it (film review)
“It might get loud,” says The Edge with slight smirk. And boy does it, as he tears into a processor intensive, reverb heavy riff from U2’s…
Snap! Words that should be banned, OMG!
Snap! OMG! FAIL. Epic. Goodness. Actually “snap!” is not so bad, but there are many words creeping into our daily lexicon that make me cringe.…