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The Cher Show

March 19, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds

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

March 17, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds

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

Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical

March 10, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical Min Kahng (Book, Music & Lyrics) TheaterWorks Silicon Valley, in Co-Production with Center Repertory Company Reminiscent of Sondheim's Passion, the musical now in its world premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley also opens in the midst of a hot, bedroom scene of lovemaking, with arms and bodies … [Read more...] about Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical

Waste

February 12, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds

Waste Harley Granville-Barker Adapted by Carey Perloff Marin Theatre "Oh what practical, sentimental children you men are, you and your consciousness, you and your laws.  You drive us to distraction and sometimes death by your stupidities.  Poor women!" Is it any wonder that in an England with its toes still in the deeply moralistic waters  of the recently … [Read more...] about Waste

Urinetown

January 27, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds

Urinetown the Musical Mark Hollmann (Music & Lyrics); Greg Kotis (Book & Lyrics) South Bay Musical Theatre Capitalists who care more about cash than care of the people; legislators fawning over CEO’s and accepting bribes on the side; devastating droughts, shrinking water tables, and dubious responses by government officials; authoritarian threats and promised … [Read more...] about Urinetown

DRAGCULA: A Parody in Living Greyscale

January 17, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

DRAGCULA: A Parody in Living Greyscale Adapted by Chris Steele from Bram Stoker’s Dracula Poltergeist Theatre Project, Potatoes Mashed Comedy & Oasis Arts The 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker not only is now considered one of the great classics of English literature, the Transylvanian tale of vampires, blood, and sexual suggestions by … [Read more...] about DRAGCULA: A Parody in Living Greyscale

Evita

July 4, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Evita Andrew Lloyd Webber (Music); Tim Rice (Lyrics) San Francisco Playhouse With music that ranges from solemn classical, hip-swishing Latin, and grinding rock to soaring ballads and anthems, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita leaves any audience member with enough memorable earworms for a full night’s worth of dreams.  The endurance of Webber’s music coupled with lyrics by … [Read more...] about Evita

Chaplin and Keaton on the Set of Limelight

June 30, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Chaplin and Keaton on the Set of Limelight Greg Lam The Pear Theatre One was known worldwide for his bamboo cane, derby hat, toothbrush mustache, too-small black jacket, and a walk more like a penguin than a man.  The other’s big screen image familiar to all was a clean-shaven face smothered in thick, white makeup; a deadpan expression with smile totally absent; baggy … [Read more...] about Chaplin and Keaton on the Set of Limelight

Torch Song

May 15, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Torch Song Harvey Fierstein Marin Theatre With strut and style, Virginia Ham strolls into the spotlight in full drag glory to lip sing with wonderfully exaggerated aplomb a queen’s torch anthem.  By the time she has wowed us with mimicked words escaping her Mammoth-Cave-sized mouth; with eyes ready any moment to pop out of their sockets; and with hands that flit, flip, … [Read more...] about Torch Song

The Taming of the Shrew

May 12, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare Modern Verse Translation by Amy Freed and Play On Shakespeare African-American Shakespeare Company Like his Merchant of Venice with its many antisemitic references, William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew – even for all its underlying silliness – is often viewed as a difficult work to swallow by modern audiences, given what … [Read more...] about The Taming of the Shrew

Blue Door

May 1, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Blue Door Tanya Barfield Aurora Theatre Company Like Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge, Lewis heads to bed, soon to toss and turn and to spend a night confronted by the ghosts of his life – in his case, direct-line ancestors stretching over a hundred years. As one ghost announces, “This is a summoning” for this distinguished, Black, mathematics professor who before … [Read more...] about Blue Door

Florencia en el Amazonas

April 21, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Florencia en el Amazonas (Florence in the Amazon) Daniel Catân (Music); Marcela Fuentes-Berain (Libretto) Based on the Writings of Gabriel Garcia Márquez) Opera San José The romantic drama of multiple loves lost, denied, and finally found intertwine with the Amazon’s alluring myths and fantasy in Opera San José’s magnificent dip into the waters of Daniel Catán’s … [Read more...] about Florencia en el Amazonas

Tiger Style!

April 11, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Tiger Style! Mike Lew TheatreWorks Silicon Valley The thirty-something Chen siblings’ lives are a mess, and they are looking for someone to blame.  Sure, MD/PhD Jennifer is a successful oncologist and also a classical pianist who has played Carnegie Hall; but her do-nothing boyfriend of three years is walking out on her because she is too dominant and no fun.  … [Read more...] about Tiger Style!

Hangmen

April 8, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Hangmen Martin McDonagh San Jose Stage Company Take your seat; fasten your seatbelt; and prepare for another dark comedy, rollercoaster ride on the Martin McDonagh Express, once again available for a sinister, laugh-filled ride as terrifically and terrifyingly staged by San Jose Stage Company where audiences have howled and cringed in equal measures five times in the … [Read more...] about Hangmen

Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord

April 5, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord Kristina Wong American Conservatory Theatre With the hard rock and blues beats of J Roddy Watson and the Business blasting out, “I’ve been pulling threads, doing all kinds of evil,” a woman sits at her sewing machine and quickly whirls a piece of cloth through the machine’s needles, pulling out a mask – the kind we were all desperately … [Read more...] about Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord

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