Two Trains Running August Wilson American Conservatory Theater, A Touring Production by the Acting Company Many duo-tracks run in parallel, crisscross, and sometimes collide in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, the 1960s contribution to his ten-play, 20th Century American Cycle. Death and life, white and Black, love and loneliness, older generation and younger … [Read more...] about Two Trains Running
The Underpants
The Underpants Steve Martin, Adapted from Carl Sternheim San Jose Stage Company Even though they were "clean cotton, neat, and perfectly ironed," when the young and beautiful Louise drops her bloomers while standing on a bench in Dusseldorf to see the passing king, heads quickly turn, male hearts skip a beat, and news of the scandal spreads fast -- especially when … [Read more...] about The Underpants
Here There Are Blueberries
Here There Are Blueberries Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich Berkeley Repertory Theatre (A Tectonic Theater Project) In 2007, an unnamed former U.S. Army officer donated a 32-page album with 116 black-and-white photos to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- an album he had found over sixty years prior in 1946 in an abandoned apartment in … [Read more...] about Here There Are Blueberries
The Heart Sellers
The Heart Sellers Lloyd Suh TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in Co-Production with Aurora Theatre and Capital Stage When last year TheatreWorks Silicon Valley received the rights to produce the much-sought-after The Heart Sellers, Artistic Director Giovanna Sardelli learned that two other Northern California companies also hoped to include on their playbill Lloyd Suh's … [Read more...] about The Heart Sellers
The Boiling: A Tale of American Nihilism
The Boiling: A Tale of American Nihilism Sunhui Chang Magic Theatre in Association with Campo Santo At the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, playwright Sunhui Chang heard on a local Seattle newscast how two potentially infected individuals had voluntarily checked into a quarantine motel, only for one to be caught later on a surveillance camera walking out … [Read more...] about The Boiling: A Tale of American Nihilism
Penelope
Penelope Ellen McLaughlin (Text); Sarah Kirkland Snider (Music) The Pear Theatre in a co-production with Bootstrap Theater Foundation Twenty years after divorcing a man who constantly lied to her, she opens her front door to find a nurse with someone she is told is her husband, someone she does not recognize just as he does not know who she is. He is returning … [Read more...] about Penelope
Fat Ham
Fat Ham James IJames San Francisco Playhouse A smoker is full of roasting pig and ribs; a big bowl of potato salad awaits on the picnic table; and a backyard is decked out in Christmas lights, "It's a boy" blue balloons, and strands of garland. All is set for a backyard wedding party like no one has quite ever seen. That is because the bride's husband died just a … [Read more...] about Fat Ham
Camelot
Camelot Frederick Lowe (Music); Alan Jay Lerner (Book and Lyrics) Coastal Repertory Theatre Since its Tony Award winning premiere in 1960 when the President whose too-brief time in the White House became associated with the musical's magical aura, Lerner and Lowe's Camelot has been staged in over 1000 additional productions large and small around the globe, … [Read more...] about Camelot
ShaXspeare Reimagined
Shaxspeare Reimagined From the Works of William Shakespeare Rebecca Clark, Victoria Evans-Erville, AeJay Antonis Marquis, James Mercer II, Dawn Monique Williams & William Thomas Hodgson, Directors African-American Shakespeare Company The thirty-nine plays of William Shakespeare have been revisited, revised, and reconceptualized in thousands of ways since … [Read more...] about ShaXspeare Reimagined
The Mousetrap
The Mousetrap Agatha Christie City Lights Theater Company For as much as any one of us decries the awful acts of gun violence we hear about on a near-daily basis, who among us does not like a juicy, suspenseful murder mystery? And who is better to tell such a tale than the master herself, Agatha Christie, the most-published novelist in history and the playwright … [Read more...] about The Mousetrap
The Cher Show
The Cher Show Rick Elice (Book); Various Artists (Music & Lyrics) Broadway San Jose Born in El Centro, California of an Armenian-American truck driver father with drug and gambling problems and a mixed-European-heritage, actress and model mother (parents who divorced when she was ten months old), Cheryl Sarkisian was mocked at school in the 1950s as a … [Read more...] about The Cher Show
Art
Art Yasmina Reza Shotgun Players The choice that Shotgun Players surely made months ago to open the 2025 season with Art -- the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play by French playwright Yasmina Reza and translated to English by Christopher Hampton -- proves to be brilliant as we are in the midst of Trump's first hundred days. As we watch three best friends with a … [Read more...] about Art
Wild with Happy
Wild with Happy Colman Domingo New Conservatory Theatre Center Grief comes in ways unexpected for Gil as he tries his best to rush through the whole process in dealing with his mom's sudden passing where she resides in his hometown of Philly. After all, the struggling actor (and Yale English lit grad) needs to return tomorrow to New York for a call-back audition … [Read more...] about Wild with Happy
Push/Pull
Push/Pull Harry Davis Central Works Dedication/Obsession. Self-esteem/Self-disgust. Fulfilling a dream/Living a delusion. Acceptable friendship/Forbidden Intimacy. Wanting to feel male/Wanting the feel of a male. Life seeking/Death wishing. Where is the boundary between these extremes? When and how does the balance shift from one side to the other? Is … [Read more...] about Push/Pull
Nobody Loves You
Nobody Loves You Itamar Moses (Book); Gaby Alter (Music & Lyrics) American Conservatory Theater When reality TV with a "You're-off-the-island" edge merges with a bachelor/bachelorette dating show format that opens the floodgates for immediate social media inputs, memes, and votes for winners, then the result is a rom-com that is furiously fun from beginning to … [Read more...] about Nobody Loves You