You for Me for YouMia ChungCrowded Fire TheaterElissa Beth Stebbins, Kathryn Han & Jomar TagatacThe driven desire against immense odds to escape despot regimes where personal freedoms are few-to-none, food is scarce to the point of hunger, and family members are often at risk of being whisked away in the middle of the night is certainly a part of our current, global … [Read more...] about “You for Me for You”
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“Rumors”
RumorsNeil SimonHillbarn TheatreThe Cast of Rumors With a cast whose tongues are fully in cheek, slapstick skills are sharply honed, and mission is to milk every laugh possible from the ninety-minute script, Hillbarn Theatre stages an entertaining Rumors. Touting little social, redeeming value other than to produce much laughter from increasingly silly … [Read more...] about “Rumors”
“BEOWULF”
BEOWULFWe Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet & InkBoatNathaniel Justiniano, Ava Roy & Dana Ioga-Koga“Smell ... Listen ... Breathe.”And a hundred-plus “mourners” all clad in black (i.e., the audience) leave the San Francisco Maritime Museum, heading toward the sounds of sad, wailing saxophones, tucked in the green hills and hidden among the giant trees with branches … [Read more...] about “BEOWULF”
“Kilgallen Jones”
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”
“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”
