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Twelfth Night
Rhe animated energy and comic prowess of the cast along with many humor-inspired touches by director Sara K. Dean win out for a sojourn in the eclectic, gender-bending, mixed-up Illyria that is fun and funny as San Jose Stage Company presents Kwame Kwei-Armah & Shaina Taub’s musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
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Harvey Milk Reimagined
May Opera Paralléle’s current monumental staging of Steward Wallace and Michael Korie’s “Harvey Milk Reimagined” serve as our reminder never to forget, always to keep fighting for the this great one named Milk who came before us.
Pear Slices 2025
The Pear Theatre provides in its “Pear Slices 2025” an evening of exciting, live theatre I\along with the exiting satisfaction of having supported by our presence the birthing process of new works
The Cake
“The Cake” — now on stage at City Lights Theater Company — is an engaging, thought-provoking, and thoroughly entertaining mix of high drama and laugh-out-loud comedy.
Brigadoon
South Bay Musical Theatre’s “Brigadoon” is a village that will too soon disappear into the mist on June 7, but there is still plenty of time to enjoy an evening in a magical village made very real by this superb production.
Otello
In a staging brimming with theatrical excellence, musical sublimity, and production mastery, West Bay Opera opens for only two weekends Verdi’s “Otello” — a must-see mounting and perhaps one of the best offerings in the company’s long history of producing big-stage-worthy operas in the quite intimate Lucie Stern Center of Palo Alto.
