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Boss McGreedy

March 8, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Boss McGreedy Gary Graves Central Works In his silk dressing robe, the “Boss” pours himself another whiskey as he listens to Dudley – his lawyer and friend since childhood – tell him there is a real possibility for a “remand,” if he will “just tell the truth.”  The man who proudly boasts he built New York in his years as Commissioner of Public Works is also the … [Read more...] about Boss McGreedy

A Little Night Music

February 6, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

A Little Night Music Stephen Sondheim (Music & Lyrics); Hugh Wheeler (Book) South Bay Musical Theatre In a rich, reverberating blend of harmonies, an elaborately attired quintet sings snippets of fuller songs soon to come of the on-again, off-again love affairs and marriages we are about to witness: “Unpack the luggage, la-la-la; pack the luggage, la-la-la.” ... … [Read more...] about A Little Night Music

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

January 28, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Heroes of the Fourth Turning Will Arbery Los Altos Stage Company Four recent graduates of Transfiguration College of Wyoming – a Catholic school so conservative that students turn in their cell phones during their four years – have returned to witness their favorite professor’s ascension to be the institute’s first woman president.  Two days before a full eclipse of … [Read more...] about Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Babes in Ho-lland

January 21, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Babes in Ho-lland Deneen Reynolds-Knott Shotgun Players In a college dorm room whose walls are laden with ‘90s girl-band posters and whose floor is bedecked with plastic baskets flowing with laundry still to be done, a rockin,’ dancin,’ jumpin’ late teen gyrates irradicably to Courtney Love’s “Violet.”  Just as she hits a climax in her spins, her roommate walks in, … [Read more...] about Babes in Ho-lland

Orpheus in the Underworld

June 19, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Orpheus in the Underworld Jacques Offenbach (Music) Hector Crémieux & Ludovic Halévy (Original French Libretto) Donald Pippin (English Adaptation) The plights of Orpheus and Eurydice have fascinated audiences from the times of ancient Greeks through the works of Ovid and Virgil up until today’s multiple versions of their ill-fated journey into Hades as told in … [Read more...] about Orpheus in the Underworld

The Road to Mecca

June 9, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

The Road to Mecca Athol Fugard Weathervane Productions at Z Below Light vs. Darkness.  Love vs. Trust.  White vs. Black.  Old vs. Young.  Friendship vs. Loneliness.  Acceptance vs. Prejudice.  Apartheid vs. Freedom.  Christian Values vs. Eastern Values. Opposites continuously intercede, sometimes blend, and often explosively collide in Athol Fugard’s thought-provoking … [Read more...] about The Road to Mecca

The Confession of Lily Dare

May 26, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

The Confessions of Lily Dare Charles Busch New Conservatory Theatre Center As two old friends reminisce before a grave whose tombstone they describe as alabaster white due to regular cleanings of baking soda mixed with Jack Daniels whiskey, one notes lovingly and admiringly of the grave’s occupant, “She wouldn’t let a geezer squeeze her tits for less than a twenty.”  … [Read more...] about The Confession of Lily Dare

Let the Right One In

May 25, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Let the Right One In Jack Thorne, Stage Adaptation Based on the Novel & Film by John Ajvide Lindquist Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Presenting The National Theatre of Scotland Production) Two kids meet at night in the courtyard between their families’ two flats and quickly become friends.  One is a boy; the other appears as a girl but says is not.  One is twelve; … [Read more...] about Let the Right One In

Singin’ in the Rain

May 16, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Singin’ in the Rain Betty Comden & Adolph Green (Book); Arthur Freed (Lyrics); Nacio Herb Brown (Music) South Bay Musical Theatre I am a sucker for tap-dancing, especially when a stage is packed to the gill with smiling, arm-swinging tappers that uniformly are toe-heel clicking up a storm and singing at the same time in full, fine voice.  For that reason alone, I … [Read more...] about Singin’ in the Rain

Romeo and Juliet

May 14, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, Adapted by L. Peter Callender African-American Shakespeare Company Maybe no play of the Bard’s has been adapted more than the romantic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in which the ongoing rivalry between two families leads to the deaths of two of their children who just happen to fall in love.  On the stages of theatre, opera, and … [Read more...] about Romeo and Juliet

Clue

March 19, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Clue Based on Screenplay by Jonathan Lynn Written by Sandy Rustin Additional Material by Hunter Foster & Eric Price Based on Paramount Pictures film, Clue Based on Hasbro Board Game, CLUE San Francisco Playhouse Six guests arrive at a New England, country mansion in 1954; and soon each receives from the host a plain-paper-wrapped gift – either a dagger, a … [Read more...] about Clue

The Travelers

February 19, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

The Travelers Luis Alfaro Magic Theatre, in Co-Production with Campo Santo A parable.  An allegory.   A dream.  A mind-bending, fascinating fable. Any and all of these descriptors are possibilities to describe Luis Alfaro’s newest, stage creation, The Travelers, now in a gripping world premiere by Magic Theatre and Campo Santo – a co-production both ethereal and … [Read more...] about The Travelers

Miss You Like Hell

February 7, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Miss You Like Hell Quiara Alegría Hudes (Book & Lyrics); Erin McKeown (Music & Lyrics) City Lights Theater Company in Co-Production with Teatro Visión Many a book and movie through the years have chronicled “the great American road trip” across the continent as individuals, friends, and families have ventured into the plains, mountains, and lonely towns in … [Read more...] about Miss You Like Hell

The Play That Goes Wrong

January 30, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Play That Goes Wrong Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields Palo Alto Players Finally, after past, short-handed productions such as Two Sisters (making for a much shorter evening of Chekhov), The Lion and the Wardrobe (forget the Witch), and Cat (a solo musical?), the Cornley Drama Society has recruited enough members to stage The Murder at Haversham … [Read more...] about The Play That Goes Wrong

Ruthless! The Musical Comedy

May 6, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds

Ruthless! The Musical Comedy Marvin Laird (Music); Joel Paley (Lyrics and Book) Los Altos Stage Company When third-grader Tina Denmark hears of the lead role in her school’s new musical, Pippi [Longstocking] in Tahiti, she declares “I would kill for that part;” and she is actually not kidding.  The deadly ambitious pipsqueak who has trouble talking without singing or … [Read more...] about Ruthless! The Musical Comedy

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