The San Jose Repertory Theatre just finished a fantastic 2009-2010 season, and they have no intention of disappointing us during the summer break either.  The Marvelous Wonderettes is a truly darling show, and a perfect way to spend a hot summer evening. The characters of Suzy, Betty Jean, Missy and...

A toe-tapping revue, Smokey Joe’s Café takes us back to the world of transistor radios, sputnik and doo-wop with 37 treasured tunes.

I wondered: can I endure more than 15 minutes of Beatles music?

Moscow Ballet performed The Great Russian Nutcracker at the Flint Center yesterday. I had the good fortune to talk to Cristina Terentiev, who played Masha (aka Clara) before the event. In a somewhat fractured cell phone conversation, I noted how in the past, we revered Nijinsky, George Balanchine and...

Did I mention we were sitting underneath a fully operating pizza joint? Consider those occasional bumps, screeches of a chair being dragged and knocks from the pipes to be bonus effects. This is theater that puts hair on your chest.

Among Galileo Galilei's more radical notions was heliocentricism, which suggested that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the known universe.

Perhaps the best part of Fly By Night is that it's anything but cliche. Thankfully we don't see a large ensemble blitz the stage with jumping jacks and cartwheels, wailing at full volume.

"Parents, if you love your children, do not take them backstage at Disneyland." - A wise man.

The staging is right out of Architectural Digest. Minimalist, with soaring frosted glass flanking an austere hardwood stage, the juxtaposition against sun-soaked scenes in Israel alongside the Sea of Galilee, make for striking visuals, imagined and otherwise.

Almost everyone I know, regardless of age, places themselves behind the barricades with the students. However, something more obvious is happening...