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The Coast Starlight
San Jose Stage Company’s Bay Area premiere of “The Coast Starlight” s a journey for us as audience whose thousand miles and ninety minutes flies by in an highly entertaining and engaging trip up the West Coast.
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The Monsters
Ngozi Anyanwu’s “The Monsters,” a two-hander play opens at Berkeley Repertory Theater — a play about a brother and sister who travel together a bumpy, sometimes circuitous path through reunion, recollection, resentment, rivalry, and reconciliation.
Flex
in the West Coast premiere of Candice Jones’ “Flex,” five Black teens and basketball teammates in rural, 1998 Arkansas are trying to survive more than just the opposing team’s scoring.
The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?
Shotgun Players opens its 34th season with Edward Albee’s 2002 Tony Award winning “The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia?” in a production that is jaw-dropping astounding in every respect: direction, acting, visuals, effects, and maybe most of all, subject matter.
Our Class
Norman Allen’s adaptation of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s “Our Class” is a timely must see not for enjoyment per se, but for an awakening of what is happening right now that is not that dissimilar to what happened in one of the darkest periods of all history a mere eighty-plus years ago on July 10, 1941.
Macbeth
In partnership with Play On Shakespeare, Magic Theatre opens Cruz’s gut-punching, gripping, yet still poetic “Macbeth” in a modern adaptation by Migdalia Cruz.
