Guest post by Pat Reardon. Jean Webster’s charming 1912 novel Daddy Long Legs is the inspiration for TheatreWorks newest production. This delightful world premiere romantic musical is a feast for the spirit.   Webster’s classic novel tells the story of Jerusha Abbott, a talented orphan who unexpectedly receives the gift of a...

Last night, the eagerly awaited stage production of Dead Man Walking premiered at City Lights Theater in downtown San Jose. It was an evening of compelling drama, pulling at our heart strings as we contemplated capital punishment, forgiveness and atonement. Tim Robbin's script is, of course, a classic, turned...

Lucile Ball, your new play has arrived. It's called Bermuda Avenue Triangle, and just opened at the Hillbarn Theatre in Foster City. Oh, I must warn you. Times have changed. A lot. I hope you don't mind a bit of choice language. This is Las Vegas after all. And,...

You might think AIDS and South Africa aren't exactly a romantic combination for an enjoyable night on the town. But in Coming Home playwright Athol Fugard tells us a heartbreaking story with such patience, earnest and utter charm that we can't help but walk out of the theater inspired,...

No one can ever accuse Carey Perloff, ACT artistic director, from shying away from a challenge, even if it means staging a tricky, complex French play written in the 17th century. In 2008, she was invited to Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival to workshop a new translation of the classic...

Puppets sure have changed since I was a kid—in a good way, a very good way. Don't look for them on PBS though. You're more likely to find this raucous lot on HBO. Last night, the tony award-winning musical Avenue Q rolled into town with a bunch of starry-eyed,...

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? Art vs. money. In David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow we learn that Hollywood moguls are what they are—nothing more, nothing less—despite occasional attempts to change the...

  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 directs this new play from Johnson, whom The Chicago Reader declared “balances gallows humor with acute insight and compassion. He creates characters so real you...

"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 Get On Your Boots. Although music is featured prominently in the documentary It Might Get Loud, it's really about exploring the window into the creative...

I glanced at my watch; ten minutes until the first of eight performances of Riverdance at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts was to commence. It seems a little unreal that I made it to my seat after starting my day at 4 am EST at Ottawa International...