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World Premiere adaptation of ‘Meet John Doe’ to open at San Jose Stage Company

Frank Capra's classic Meet John Doe is about to hit town. San Jose Stage Company will produce the play which is scheduled to run November 23 through December 18, 2022 in downtown San Jose, California. "The story of MEET JOHN DOE truly resonates with the core of our mission: to expand...
Lights, camera, fabulous! One-night only musical extravaganza at Davies Symphony Hall featuring 300 members of The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus

What’s Happening: ‘Drag Me to the Movies!’ by SFGMC headed to Davies Symphony Hall

Mark your calendar for a cinematic "extravaganza" headed to San Francisco. The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) has announced Drag Me to the Movies will headline at Davies Symphony Hall. A one-night special event, the show features the 300-member chorus in addition to artistic director Jacob Stensberg, the Lollipop Guild,...

Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway’, a rollercoaster of satire

The heat gets turned up as Forbidden Broadway takes the audience on a roller coaster through twenty-five acts and countless jabs (some sharper than others) at Broadway classics. The most wicked of barbs are directed at Disney, although Andrew Lloyd Webber also got quite a tan from the broiler...

Theater review: ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Berkeley Playhouse, first class family entertainment

Through-and-through, fantastic! Yet again I'm impressed with the quality of family entertainment Berkeley Playhouse offers its lucky theater goers. A packed house of kids and parents on Sunday relished in the magic, singing, dancing of this updated version of the venerable The Wizard of Oz. It is first class family entertainment...

Theater Review: ‘Sunsets and Margaritas’ at TheatreWorks

In Sunsets and Margaritas by playwright José Cruz González, a Latino family faces just about every challenge life can throw their way: aging, regret, birth, despair. Oh, plus a panic attack or two thrown in for good measure. But the Serrano's benefit from an enduring tradition, and ability to persevere, despite the unpredictable...

‘Guys and Dolls’ a magical outdoor theater experience at Mountain Play

For a moment it felt like I was in one of those great outdoor amphitheatres in Greece. Or maybe it was Rome. But when I saw the sun shimmering across the Pacific Ocean through the majestic Redwood forest I knew this could only happen in one magical place on...
Dead Man's Cell Phone, Palo Alto Players

Palo Alto Players presents ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’

Dead Man's Cell Phone is just one of the many award–winning plays that Ruhl has written.
Halsey Varady and Robert Brewer* in the the Regional Premiere of Reasons To Be Pretty at San Jose Stage Company (left to right). Photo by Dave Lepori.

Theater Review: Neil LaBute’s ‘Reasons to be Pretty’ cuts

Once again, I found myself armchair quarterbacking the playwright.
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.
David (Gabriel Marin*) reluctantly gives Hannah (Carrie Paff*) a hormone shot in the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Collapse

Theater Review: Falling together in ‘Collapse’

Nerves are frayed and everyone is operating in a neurotically-charged frenzy.