Shakespeare Over My Shoulder Ted Lange African-American Shakespeare Company For acclaimed, award-winning playwright, director, actor, and educator, Ted Lange, it began almost sixty years ago while researching a possible role in Romeo and Juliet; it happened again in 1984 while at the Royal Academy for Dramatic Arts in London; and it continued occurring every few … [Read more...] about Shakespeare Over My Shoulder
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The Play That Goes Wrong
The Play That Goes Wrong Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields Hillbarn Theatre & Conservatory OK, let's first just put on the table all the words that Merriam-Webster, Roget, or ChatGBT can spit out for 'funny': a scream, a riot, zany, kooky, a knee-slapper, uproarious, sidesplitting, that dog won't hurt. Get the idea? It would take all these and … [Read more...] about The Play That Goes Wrong
Moonchild
Moonchild Connor Lifson & K. Sid Zhang Stanford Theatre and Performance Studies (TAPS) "What are we except the stories we tell ourselves?" A little girl confined in a small space surrounded by white draping suddenly is visited by a fairy who beckons her to follow, leading Lyra into a supernatural domain and a journey full of wonder, excitement, and danger -- a … [Read more...] about Moonchild
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
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
M. Butterfly
M. Butterfly David Henry Hwang San Francisco Playhouse From his small, sparse cell in a Paris prison, a former French diplomat to China -- one who is serving time for treasonous passing of secret information to a planted spy posing as his lover -- replays in his racing mind their twenty-year relationship. Telling himself "I have known and have been loved by a … [Read more...] about M. Butterfly
The Last Goat
The Last Goat Gary Graves Central Works On the small, southernmost Greek island of Kosos in the twelfth century BCE lives a grandmother and her young granddaughter alone amidst groves of fruit trees, lush gardens of vegetables, a surrounding sea of fresh fish, and one lone goat. Any men who once lived there have long been away at a far-off war or have died of the … [Read more...] about The Last Goat
Sweat
Sweat Lynn Nottage Palo Alto Players Stories are how we often best learn new truths about the world around us. Lynn Nottage -- the first and only woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two times -- clearly understands the power of narratives to deliver messages and to raise questions that we in the mostly liberal and Blue Bay Area somehow have missed while … [Read more...] about Sweat
Co-Founders
Co-Founders Ryan Nicole Austin, Beau Lewis, Adesha Adefela Music Team Led by Victoria Theodore American Conservatory Theater For seven years, Esata has been coding in her mother's West Oakland basement, creating an interacting avatar of her deceased father, Cyril -- an incredible accomplishment for someone non-degreed who learned to code with her dad on an Atari … [Read more...] about Co-Founders
The Cher Show
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
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
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
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
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
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
