Get Eddie’s recommendations for shows on stage now that you should be sure not to miss.
Two Trains Running
Through stunningly stellar performances by each of the seven cast members of New York’s Acting Company and as patiently, potently, and passionately directed by Lili-Anne Brown, American Conservatory Theater hosts a touring production of Two Trains Running well worth riding through every minute of the 150+ — a play awarded in 1991 as Best New Play by the American Theatre Critics Association.
Zorro
The romantic, justice-seeking hero whose sword-slashing “Z” is still recognizable worldwide becomes the star ready to wow Opera San Jose audiences as the company presents the Northern California premiere of Héctor Armienta’s new opera, Zorro — a must-see production replenish with rousing, heart-throbbing music; electrifying vocals; swooning romance; and thrilling action.
Writing Fragments Home
Hillbarn Theatre & Conservatory opens in world premiere Jeffrey Lo’s latest, new play, Writing Fragments Home, in a production that is very much a love letter to his own mom, a Filipino-American nurse, and to immigrant parents of all nationalities who arrive on these shores hoping for the best lives possible for their current or yet-to-be-born children.
The Heart Sellers
By evening’s too-quick end, so much has both been learned and celebrated about the ups and downs of the immigrant experience via the two curious, creative, and congenial new friends we have met in Lloyd Suh’s The Heart Sellers. With the production recently enjoyed by packed, delighted audiences in Berkeley, now TheatreWorks Silicon Valley beckons the South Bay to Mountain View in order meet and make new friends with Luna and Jane — two immigrants who so powerfully remind us that our country only becomes more enriched when our diversity of backgrounds increases.
Takes All Kinds
Just as he has done in a long list of highly acclaimed, one person shows that he has written and performed and that have graced multiple stages across the country and the globe (Border People, Each and Every Thing, The Real Americans, Tings Dey Happen), Dan Hoyle has once again created a must-see winner. His latest tour de force in both writing and performing is Takes All Kinds, now reopening after its 2024 premiere at his home away from home, The Marsh.
