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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.
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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.
King Liz
King Liz Fernanda Coppel City Lights Theater Company With Jay Z blasting through the office’s speakers, Gabby serves as a cool DJ in shades while her boss, Liz, enters the office dressed in 5th Avenue glamor – and also in dark shades – lip synching the rap lyrics that help her pump up for the day’s money-making ventures: “As sure…
Hangmen
The Stage’s “Hangmen,” like most other Martin McDonagh plays, is one where an audience member’s loud, almost uncontrolled laughter tonight leads to tomorrow’s stomach queasiness and a pause for deep introspection.
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner Adapted by Matthew Spangler, Based on the Novel by Khaled Hosseini Hammer Theatre and EnActe Arts “I became what I am today at the age of twelve; I remember the precise moment … It’s wrong what they say about the past, about how you can bury it because the past claws its way out.” And so near…