Kilgallen JonesAllison PageExit Theatre“Sequential ... one story told until it’s over.” So opens Alexis Jones’ first pod cast from her friend’s (Rae’s) basement in Cleveland, Ohio. What starts as an assignment for a community college “TV and Radio” class becomes for this avid lover of True Crime books, shows, and movies an all-grossing obsession. This is … [Read more...] about “Kilgallen Jones”
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“1776”
1776Sherman Edwards (Music & Lyrics); Peter Stone (Book)South Bay Musical TheatreThe Cast of "1776"How familiar does this sound: A Congress that seems to get nothing done? A Congress that is divided into two factions that can barely tolerate each other? Committees upon committees where members of Congress meet to debate ad nauseumand decide little? Members … [Read more...] about “1776”
“A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine”
A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the UkraineDick Vosburgh (Book & Lyrics); Frank Lazarus (Music)Palo Alto Players Andrew Ceglio, Patty Reinhart & Mohamed Ismail Calling all lovers of the Marx Brothers. Maker you way to Palo Alto Players for an uproariously ridiculous riot of A Night in the Ukraine, but beware. Those masters of bad puns, … [Read more...] about “A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine”
“She Loves Me”
She Loves MeJerry Bock (Music); Sheldon Harnick (Lyrics); Joe Masteroff (Book)San Francisco PlayhouseThe Cast of "She Loves Me"All it takes is a simple storyline about two of the most unlikely people falling hopelessly in love for the tale to endure forever. Take two store clerks (Amalia and Georg) who outwardly despise each other, quarreling constantly to the dismay of … [Read more...] about “She Loves Me”
“Baker Street”
Baker StreetJerome Coopersmith (Book) Marian Grudeff & Raymond Jessel (Music & Lyrics)Adapted from Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle42nd Street MoonMichael Monagle (as Sherlock Holmes) & Dan Seda (as Dr. Watson)San Francisco is so lucky to have a theatre company like 42ndStreet Moon whose key mission is to revive forgotten, rarely-if-ever-performed musicals – some … [Read more...] about “Baker Street”
“Major Barbara”
Major BarbaraGeorge Bernard ShawPear Theatre Michael Saenz & Monica CappucciniFor those who have never seen Shaw’s Major Barbara, Pear Street’s current rendering is certainly going to remind them why the Nobel prize winner for literature is in fact one of the past century’s greatest and most loved playwrights as well as introduce them to one his most loved … [Read more...] about “Major Barbara”
“The Brothers Size”
The Brothers SizeTarell Alvin McCraneyTheatre RhinocerosJulian Green, Gabriel Christian & LaKeidrick S. WimberlyWith a tribal air of a long-ago continent or of fields in the another century’s cotton-filled South, three young, black men dance in a trance-like state and sing with moaning tone and hum, “The road is rough ... hmmm, haaaah ... Lord God, it’s rough and … [Read more...] about “The Brothers Size”
“Waiting fot Godot”
Waiting for GodotSamuel BeckettDragon Productions Theatre Company Robert Sean Campbell, Jim Johnson, Ronald Feichtmeir & Michael Champlin It is about something, surely. It is about everything, maybe. It is about nothing, probably not. And whatever it is about, it all happens twice, in two acts, in two days. Producer and Director Jeanie Smith joins … [Read more...] about “Waiting fot Godot”
“Caught”
CaughtChristopher ChenShotgun PlayersJomar Tagatac as Lin BoThe “program” audience members are handed as they enter reads more like an exhibition guide to an art exhibit, “Made in China,” a phrase each person also has stamped upon the wrist by the ticket-taker at the door. The Ashby Stage has been converted, it seems, into a pop-up art gallery installation, created, the … [Read more...] about “Caught”
“The Guys”
The GuysAnne NelsonPear Theatre Diane Tasca & Ray RenatiAs we now approach the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, Pear Theatre presents The Guys, a play the New York Times once called “a heartfelt theatrical pas de deux” in which Joan (a journalist) meets Nick (a fire chief who has just lost eight firefighters) and leads him gently through remembering things that will … [Read more...] about “The Guys”
“The Ice Cream Sandwich Incident”
The Ice Cream Sandwich IncidentBarry EitelFaultline Theater Becky Hirschfeld, Daniel Chung, Nora Doane, Adrian Deane & Paul RodriguesSo what if the space ship’s captain decides to indulge in four ice cream sandwiches found in the hold’s freezer? What’s the big deal? Well, for the other three fake astronauts locked up together for a year in a simulated starship … [Read more...] about “The Ice Cream Sandwich Incident”
“Hearts of Palm”
Hearts of PalmPatricia MiltonCentral WorksFrieda de Lackner as Vi & John Patrick Moore as StrapOn the Southeast Asia island of Marititu, two corporate-type women ready themselves for negotiations with the locals over acquiring major land plots for their mega-company, Empire Holdings. They do so by trading personal jabs about who is and is not qualified enough to sit … [Read more...] about “Hearts of Palm”
“Slaughter City”
Slaughter CityNaomi WallaceStanford Repertory TheaterLouis McWilliams as Brandon & Leontyne Mbele-Mbong as Roach American playwright, university professor, and social activist Naomi Wallace creates in her Slaughter City a play that rips open the doors of one of the more gruesome workplaces to reveal the injustice, the suffering, and the inequalities … [Read more...] about “Slaughter City”
“The Gathering”
The GatheringArje ShawThe Live Oak TheatreKahlil Leneus, Tracy Camp, Edward Nattenberg & Arje ShawPlays about a Holocaust survivor rarely open with an elderly man swapping Yiddish-filled pokes and jokes with his thirteen-year-old, African-American grandson, whom he calls ‘boychick.’ The grandfather tries half-heartedly to cajole the boy to practice his haftorah … [Read more...] about “The Gathering”
“Stale Magnolias”
Stale MagnoliasSean Owens (Book & Lyrics); Don Seaver (Music)OasisJef Valentine as Raven Looney & Robert Molossi as Spuvina FetlockIt’s a feverish 102º in Rectal, TX, where the most shocking sight is “Texas women in 80s couture.” The radio announcer on local KWHY has just announced the town’s oldest citizen, Miss Vita Brevits, has passed on to her heavenly reward … [Read more...] about “Stale Magnolias”
