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Aurora Theatre Company presents world premiere of Joel Drake Johnson’s “The First Grade”

BY MONICA TURNER — 01.08.2010

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…

Culture

‘It Might Get Loud’ … and you’ll love it (film review)

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.07.2010

“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…

Culture

‘Speed-the-Plow’ opens Friday at Pear Avenue Theatre

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.06.2010

Hooray for Hollywood? David Mamet’s interestingly named Speed-the-Plow opens this Friday at the Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View. It marks a busy theater calendar…

Culture

2009 Theater in review: Best show

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.01.2010

Last year—yes, can you believe 2009 is now last year?—was a terrific year for Bay Area Theater (and Arts too!). A creative tsunami struck. It…

News

Broadway San Jose: ‘Riverdance’ throws a party of dance, song and music, Irish-style

BY LONI STARK — 12.30.2009

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…

Culture

Photos: Opening night at Broadway San Jose’s ‘Riverdance’

BY LONI STARK — 12.30.2009

It was a full house at yesterday’s opening night of ‘Riverdance’ in San Jose. Review to come out shortly. Feeling the effects of jetlag after…

Theater and Stage

Dragon Theater celebrates 10th anniversary season

BY MONICA TURNER — 12.30.2009

Born out of actors’ frustrations for opportunities to perform and built on the dream to provide those opportunities, Dragon Productions Theatre Company was born in…

Culture

An evening of ‘Yes Sweet Can’ at Sweet Can Productions Circus

BY LONI STARK — 12.29.2009

Yes Sweet Can explores the theme of resourcefulness in an intimate setting where the first row of the audience is on the actual stage of…

Culture

‘Welcome to the NeighborHOOD Project’ at Sargent Johnson Gallery in San Francisco

BY LONI STARK — 12.28.2009

After a tour of the exhibit, I entered the theater for some fairy godmother magic with the production of 'Cinderella'.

News

Theater review: ‘Cinderella’ enchants, casts magical spell of non-stop laugher for entire family

BY CLINTON STARK — 12.21.2009

You’ve seen Cinderella before, but not like this laugh-out-loud, delightful family rendition by the African-American Shakespeare Company. The famous rag-to-riches story gets a soulful makeover,…