Dial M for Murder Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the Original by Frederick Knott City Lights Theater Company Packed with edge-of-your-seat suspense, more twists and turns than San Francisco's Lombard Street, and tons of intriguing clues scattered throughout, Dial M for Murder for over seventy years has been an audience favorite on stage, TV, and film. Combining … [Read more...] about Dial M for Murder
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||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| Eisa Davis American Conservatory Theater, In Co-Production with Vineyard Theatre Company Four teenage girls spending their summer at a conservatory of music program in Berkeley create and share together music, friendship, tension, conflict, and compassion while also balancing the pressures of others' expectations, their own … [Read more...] about ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||
Gods and Monsters
Gods and Monsters Written and Adapted by Tom Mullen, Based on the Novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram New Conservatory Theatre Center Best known today for directing the pre-Code, horror films Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) but also director of twenty-plus other films of all genres (including the 1936 musical, Showboat), James … [Read more...] about Gods and Monsters
La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast)
La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast) Philip Glass, Based on the Film by Jean Cocteau Opera Parallèle Fantastically blurring live stage performance with cinematic screening where reality and surrealism blend into an evening of spectacular entertainment, Opera Parallèle presents Philip Glass' 1994 opera, La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast) while … [Read more...] about La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast)
Primary Trust
Primary Trust Eboni Booth TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Introducing himself as Kenneth, he also introduces us to his hometown, Cranberry, New York, "forty miles east of Rochester," taking us on a tour of the post office, two banks, a newly opened wine shop, on down past Main Street to "my favorite place on earth, Wally's" -- New York's oldest tiki hut bar with … [Read more...] about Primary Trust
Songs for a New World
Songs for a New World James Robert Brown (Music & Lyrics) Hillbarn Theatre & Conservatory With a cast of four whose stellar voices individually and collectively soar and a three-piece, on-stage band that stirs one's emotions to the core, the ground-breaking, 1995 song cycle by Jason Robert Brown, Songs for a New World, becomes incredibly current due both to … [Read more...] about Songs for a New World
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee William Finn (Music & Lyrics); Rachel Sheinkin (Book) Conceived by Rebecca Feldman; Additional Material by Jay Reiss Foothill Music Theatre Maybe few people still have a dictionary anywhere near their desk or on their home's bookshelf. Maybe nearly everyone now relies on Gmail, MSWord, Google search, or AI to … [Read more...] about The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
After Happy
After Happy Patricia Milton Central Works A last-minute, desperate search for a Pirate Queen for the annual Pirate Festival in a community where most residents live under blue-tarp tents after a destructive hurricane named Happy. A bribery deal in process in Liberia for a Louisiana, family oil company to buy a forest where indigenous people live in order to give … [Read more...] about After Happy
All My Sons
All My Sons Arthur Miller Berkeley Repertory Theatre The American Dream: That illusive goal that so many have sought to reach, so many sacrifices have been made ... often not for one's own self but for the next generation so the lives of children will be better. A Dream supposedly open to all, but in reality, mostly available at best to those whose skin is white. … [Read more...] about All My Sons
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity Levi Holloway American Conservatory Theater In Co-Production with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Center Theater Group & Shakespeare Theatre Company About to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Lou and and James suddenly make a move from Chicago to London, adjusting to new jobs in a new house in a new country -- a country where … [Read more...] about Paranormal Activity
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady Alan Jay Lerner (Book & Lyrics); Frederick Loewe (Music) The Pear Theatre One by one, staff and patrons of a local English pub, The Pear and Rose (established 1821) arrive -- some carrying an instrument like a violin or a flute, others handed as they enter a pipe or a hat, and all greeting each other with a nod or smile, clearly as friends. As the … [Read more...] about My Fair Lady
Madame Butterfly
Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini (Music) Eiki Isomura. & Josh Shaw (Japanese/English Libretto, Courtesy of Pacific Opera Project) Pocket Opera Poorly received upon its 1904, La Scala premiere in Milan, Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly went on to become one of the globe's most popular and beloved operas, often cited to this day as the sixth most produced … [Read more...] about Madame Butterfly
Cavalleria Rusticana | Pagliacci
Cavalleria Rustica and Pagliacci Pietro Mascagni (Music); Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti & Guido Menasci (Libretto): Cavalleria Rustica Ruggero Leoncavallo (Music & Libretto): Pagliacci San Jose Opera Infidelity that leads to fatal revenge is the subject of a musically invigorating and visually lush double-billing by San Jose Opera of two, … [Read more...] about Cavalleria Rusticana | Pagliacci
The Lehman Trilogy
The Lehman Trilogy Stefano Massini Adapted by Ben Power San Jose Stage Company It is a story whose ending we already too well know. The world’s fourth largest investment bank with $639 billion in assets and 25,000 employees files for the biggest bankruptcy in American history, sending Wall Street into panic and initiating the 2008-09 global financial crisis and … [Read more...] about The Lehman Trilogy
Salome
Salome Richard Strauss (composer); Hedwig Lachmann (libretto) Based on French language play by Oscar Wilde West Bay Opera Among a number of Biblical women such as Jezebel and Delilah whose names to this day connote evil, betrayal, and manipulation, Salome has always engendered much distain, but also much fascination. After all, as recorded twice in … [Read more...] about Salome
