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Murder on the Orient Express

June 25, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Murder on the Orient Express Adapted by Ken Ludwig from the Novel by Agatha Christie Palo Alto Players For many of us, there is nothing better than curling up in a comfy chair and opening the first page of an Agatha Christie novel to see what devilish deed Hercule Poirot will solve this time.  Perhaps the only thing better is to see all the suspense, speculation, and … [Read more...] about Murder on the Orient Express

Garuda’s Wing

June 13, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Garuda’s Wing Naomi Iizuka Magic Theatre in a Co-Production with Campo Santo “I’m going to tell you a story, and then maybe you’ll remember.” The last line of Naomi Iizuka’s latest play, Garuda’s Wing, is clearly aimed at us, the audience.  The story we have witnessed over the past ninety minutes in Magic Theatre and Campo Santo’s world premiere production has been … [Read more...] about Garuda’s Wing

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

June 11, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Jeffrey Lane (Book); David Yazbek (Music & Lyrics) San Jose Stage Company Filled with more corn than an Iowa field in mid-summer, San Jose Stage Company’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is overflowing with groaner puns, slapstick silliness, sexual innuendos, and sophomoric vulgarity the likes of high-school boys making fart jokes.  Based on the … [Read more...] about Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

tick, tick … Boom!

May 19, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

tick, tick… BOOM! Jonathan Larson (Book, Music & Lyrics); David Auburn, Script Consultant New Conservatory Theatre Center “Maybe I really have written the show that will reinvent musicals for our generation, the Hair of the ‘90s.” With that hope, a struggling playwright and composer heads to a workshop production of the musical he has been writing for five years.  … [Read more...] about tick, tick … Boom!

The Music Man

May 11, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

The Music Man Meredith Wilson (Book, Music & Lyrics) Palo Alto Players Musicals often burst onto the stage with numbers that arouse an audience to peak attention and leave fond impressions (and earworms) that can last a lifetime.  Among the dozens of opening numbers that are my big-sound, big-number favorites are the likes of Belle entering the village in Beauty and the … [Read more...] about The Music Man

The Skin of Our Teeth

April 14, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder Los Altos Stage Company Alert!  Alert!  It’s the coldest day of the year, and it’s only August.  An ice wall has moved the Cathedral of Montreal into Vermont; and in Excelsior, New Jersey, dinosaurs and mammoths alike are getting as worried about their survival as are the mounting number of refugees who are heading southward … [Read more...] about The Skin of Our Teeth

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

March 25, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare Shotgun Players With costumes wonderfully strange, weird, and entirely fanciful and a setting that is dark, mystical, and mysterious as a vast forest in a dream might be, Shotgun Players opens A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a cast that bends genders, mixes races, and celebrates diversity in almost every dimension possible. … [Read more...] about A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Far Country

March 15, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Far Country Lloyd Suh Berkeley Repertory Theatre “I do not want to take from America … I want to give to America.”  So does the amiable, big-smiling Gee patiently make his case to the persistently doubtful U.S. Inspector to prove in 1909 that he is a naturalized American citizen who – like everyone living in Chinatown in 1906 – lost all his proof-of-birth papers in the … [Read more...] about The Far Country

Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad

March 4, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad Ashley Smiley Magic Theatre (with Campo Santo) In a week when San Franciscans hear the news of yet another landmark institution about to close its doors for good – Macy’s on Union Square – and when the Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte’s Sunday column is titled “We’re Losing San Francisco Bit by Bit, Aren’t We,” Magic Theatre in union with … [Read more...] about Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad

Ruddygorre Or, The Bruja’s Curse

February 25, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Ruddygore Or, The Bruja’s Curse W.S. Gilbert (Libretto) & Arthur Sullivan (Score) Adapted by David Euresti Lamplighters Musical Theatre The Company that for seventy-one years has entertained Bay Area audiences with its Gilbert and Sullivan fare has taken one of the pair’s Victorian parodies of the English, nineteenth-century melodrama, Ruddygore, and married it … [Read more...] about Ruddygorre Or, The Bruja’s Curse

Corpus Evita

February 17, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Corpus Evita Carlos Franzetti Libretto by José Luis Moscovich; Concept by Lorenz Russo How much responsibility must a person in power assume for acts against humanity that occur because the untested, unprepared leader is either unaware, naïve, or completely incompetent?  Is it possible for such a leader ever to seek and receive atonement – especially if the crimes … [Read more...] about Corpus Evita

Misery – The Play

January 29, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Misery William Goldman Based on the Novel by Stephen King Palo Alto Players I feel compelled to make an upfront confession:  I have never read a Stephen King novel; and while I do enjoy the suspense and thriller aspects of Alfred Hitchcock or Rod Sterling, I have never been a fan of the ever-popular genre of horror.  It was thus with slight trepidation that I stepped … [Read more...] about Misery – The Play

Nora: A Doll’s House

January 27, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Nora: A Doll’s House Stef Smith, after Henrik Ibsen City Lights Theater Company When Henrik Ibsen premiered A Doll’s House in 1879, controversy immediately erupted when Nora, banker’s wife and mother of three, challenges the society’s definition of marriage and walks defiantly away from hers, seeking to discover who she really is beyond those two, domestic titles.  … [Read more...] about Nora: A Doll’s House

Tosca

July 17, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Tosca Giacomo Puccini Original Italian Libretto by Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa English Version by Donald Pippin Pocket Opera, in a Co-Production with Cinnabar Theatre When Giacomo Puccini’s universally popular, 1900-premiering Tosca is transformed from its usual position on grand opera stages with scores of cast members to an intimate setting where a few … [Read more...] about Tosca

The Kinsey Sicks: Drag Queen Storytime Gone Wild

July 13, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Drag Queen Storytime Gone Wild! Benjamin Schatz (Book), with Spencer Brown, Jeff Manabat & Nathan Marken Benjamin Schatz (Lyrics); Jeff Manabat (Vocal Arrangements) New Conservatory Theatre Center The masters of brilliantly delivering both corn and porn in glorious, a cappella harmonies brimming with biting political and social satire are back in what they call … [Read more...] about The Kinsey Sicks: Drag Queen Storytime Gone Wild

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