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A Strange Loop
In a musically, visually, and emotionally explosion of Black and queer power, American Conservatory Theater opens Michael R. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2022 Tony winner for Best Musical, “A Strange Loop.”
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Cunning Little Vixen
With a cast of twenty-two playing over three-dozen four-legged creatures; winged insects, birds, butterflies; and an assortment of humans, Pocket Opera stages a musically excellent, charmingly staged, and pleasantly entertaining “Cunning Little Vixen.”
Florencia en el Amazonas
The romantic drama of multiple loves lost, denied, and finally found intertwine with the Amazon’s alluring myths and fantasy in Opera San José’s magnificent dip into the waters of Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas.”
The Tutor
The complex mixture of attractions of convenience and of love along with their intertwined connections to a faraway world of arrests and torture makes “The Tutor” a hold-your-breath must-see.
The Skin of Our Teeth
For us in 2024 with so many disasters of climate, political divide, and horrific regional wars bearing down on us, Los Altos Stage Company’s revival of the sometimes creaky-with-age “The Skin of Our Teeth” still could not be timelier to remind us that yes, if history teaches us anything, we will somehow survive.
Tiger Style!
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley opens Mike Lew’s “Tiger Style!” — a crackling, laugh-out-loud satire bordering on total farce where the stereotypes that are faced by two, third-generation Chinese American siblings are given a fast-paced and irreverent lashing and thrashing exposure.