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The Cake

May 28, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Cake Bekah Brunstetter City Lights Theater Company For Della, the ingredients for the perfect cake are two: "You gotta get the real stuff" and "you gotta follow the directions."  That means "full fat" and "not your eggs that were ever caged" or "ever went to the movies," and it means "give your time and your worship to directions."  Doing so -- according to … [Read more...] about The Cake

Brigadoon

May 26, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Brigadoon Alan Jay Lerner (Book & Lyrics); Frederick Lowe (Music) South Bay Musical Theatre "When you love someone deeply, anything is possible ... even miracles." In times such as we are now experiencing where more and more people are either deeply losing hope, becoming daily more cynical, or just checking out, the idea of miracles probably for most seems a … [Read more...] about Brigadoon

Otello

May 24, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Otello Giuseppi Verdi (Music); Arigo Boito (Libretto) West Bay Opera After his successful Aida premiered in 1871, the great Giuseppi Verdi decided with firm finality to retire from opera composition; but the librettist Arigo Boito had other ideas.  Boito's persistent temptations for Verdi to tackle one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, Othello, finally led to a … [Read more...] about Otello

Yellow Face

May 19, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Yellow Face David Henry Hwang Shotgun Players Following a decade in the 1990s when Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson railed against the growing influence of Chinese Americans and questioned where their loyalties really lay (going famously after nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee as a traitor), David Henry Hwang opened in 2007 his play, Yellow Face, a brilliantly scripted … [Read more...] about Yellow Face

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

May 11, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Crumbs from the Table of Joy Lynn Nottage Aurora Theatre Company For seventeen-year-old Ernestine Crump on the verge of her high school gradation, life sometimes "feels like floating out of your body, entering the Milky Way and getting stuck in it just as its curdling."  That is especially true for this young Black girl living in lily-white Brooklyn in 1950.  After … [Read more...] about Crumbs from the Table of Joy

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

May 9, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Simon Stephens, Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon San Francisco Playhouse A boy of fifteen years, three months, three days can count from a fast moving train the exact number of trees on a hillside, of clouds in the sky, and of hues of green in the meadows passing by.  He notes without hesitation that his neighbor … [Read more...] about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Henry V

April 28, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Henry V William Shakespeare  The Pear Theatre “Therefore take heed how you impawn one person, How you awake our sleeping sword of war. We charge you in the name of God, take heed; For never two such kingdoms did contend Without much fall of blood.” The King who looks squarely, calmly, and bluntly into the eyes of the Archbishop of Canterbury – a man … [Read more...] about Henry V

Shameless Hussy

April 28, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds 1 Comment

Shameless Hussy Lynne Kaufman The Marsh Surrounded by the sounds of fog horn, crashing waves and terrifying thunder, a trembling eleven-year-old girl cries to her mother as the two leave her native France, bound for the U.S, "I am losing my country, my language, and my father".  Her mother hands her a notebook and suggests she write in it letters to the father left … [Read more...] about Shameless Hussy

Jersey Boys

April 27, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Jersey Boys Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice (Book) Bob Gaudio (Music); Bob Crewe (Lyrics) Palo Alto Players Let it be known by anyone and everyone who has seen once, twice, or a dozen times Jersey Boys in New York, London, or on touring stages throughout the country and abroad that seeing the 2005, multi-Tony-award-winning juke-box hit one more time in a … [Read more...] about Jersey Boys

Writing Fragments Home

April 22, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Writing Fragments Home Jeffrey Lo Hillbarn Theatre & Conservatory Forty-year-old Jay awaits anxiously with luggage in hand for his mom to get home from work, nervously practicing various ways of saying, "Hi, Mom, it's good to see you/How was work?/I'm sorry ... can I move back home?"  When Mary Beth walks in, her first reaction?  "What's wrong?... What are you … [Read more...] about Writing Fragments Home

Zorro

April 20, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds 1 Comment

Zorro Héctor Armienta (Music & Libretto) Opera San José A pulp fiction novel written in 1919 by John McCulley was so popular that he wrote dozens more short stories for decades about its hero.  Within a year of McCulley's publication, Douglas Fairbanks starred in a swashbuckling silent film whose popularity helped spawn to-date more than 40 more films, ten TV … [Read more...] about Zorro

Two Trains Running

April 17, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds 2 Comments

Two Trains Running August Wilson American Conservatory Theater, A Touring Production by the Acting Company Many duo-tracks run in parallel, crisscross, and sometimes collide in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, the 1960s contribution to his ten-play, 20th Century American Cycle.  Death and life, white and Black, love and loneliness, older generation and younger … [Read more...] about Two Trains Running

Here There Are Blueberries

April 10, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

  Here There Are Blueberries Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich Berkeley Repertory Theatre (A Tectonic Theater Project) In 2007, an unnamed former U.S. Army officer donated a 32-page album with 116 black-and-white photos to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- an album he had found over sixty years prior in 1946 in an abandoned apartment in … [Read more...] about Here There Are Blueberries

The Heart Sellers

April 9, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Heart Sellers Lloyd Suh TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in Co-Production with Aurora Theatre and Capital Stage When last year TheatreWorks Silicon Valley received the rights to produce the much-sought-after The Heart Sellers, Artistic Director Giovanna Sardelli learned that two other Northern California companies also hoped to include on their playbill Lloyd Suh's … [Read more...] about The Heart Sellers

Fat Ham

March 27, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds

Fat Ham James IJames San Francisco Playhouse A smoker is full of roasting pig and ribs; a big bowl of potato salad awaits on the picnic table; and a backyard is decked out in Christmas lights, "It's a boy" blue balloons, and strands of garland.  All is set for a backyard wedding party like no one has quite ever seen.  That is because the bride's husband died just a … [Read more...] about Fat Ham

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