Set as a murder mystery in Boston in the late ‘50s, this musical within a musical is an amusing send up and romp through a series of behind the scenes shenanigans.

It’s been twenty years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and despite its undeniable shortcomings, capitalism as an economic model has been widely embraced by the former “Red” nation-states.

If an overweight, overwrought, middle-aged, whiny nebbish can be an oracle, Lopez has it down as he expounds at length on the action on the other side of the stage.

The Palo Alto Players’ 80-year tradition of bringing exceptional theatre to the South Bay has never been more entertaining.

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

Interestingly I found myself enjoying the backstories to No Exit more than the actual show itself.

Carolyn Power can do more with a quivering upper lip and and slightly furrowed brow than anyone I've seen in long time

For 32 years the Northside Theatre Company has brought exceptional theatre to the South Bay. Its productions invariably exceed well beyond one’s expectations. It has earned your wholehearted support!

The dancers move more like an octopus, each an appendage of the whole beast, so you can focus on individual tentacles slithering or watch the whole beast move across the stage. I’d love to see this number again and again.

Per Berkeley Rep's standards, the acting is once again superb. James Carpenter is always extraordinary. Be sure to do what I do, and seek out every one of his performances - they are timeless gems, over and over again.