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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

Rachmaninoff and the Tsar

January 16, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Rachmaninoff and the Tsar Hershey Felder (Book); Sergei Rachmaninoff (Music) TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Little doubt but that there is a very real love affair between the San Francisco Bay Area and Hershey Felder.  This is particularly true for the audiences of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley who have reveled in so many of his past musical biographies of famed composers … [Read more...] about Rachmaninoff and the Tsar

Who’s-Dead McCarthy: Stories by Kevin Barry

July 6, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Who’s-Dead McCarthy: Stories by Kevin Barry Kevin Barry Word for Word In its 31st year of transforming “the page to the stage,” Word for Word once again celebrates the literary genre of the short story by bringing to the intimate stage of Z Below three delightful gems by a much awarded, contemporary, Irish writer in Who’s-Dead McCarthy: Stories by Kevin Barry.  The stories … [Read more...] about Who’s-Dead McCarthy: Stories by Kevin Barry

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

Mother Road

June 21, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Mother Road Octavio Solis Berkeley Repertory Theatre Seventy-plus years have passed since the Joad family of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath joined a parade of desperate migrant farmers, all leaving their starving lives in Dust-Bowl-ravaged Oklahoma of the 1930s while looking for the lush life they saw painted on fruit crates from California.  Two Joads – a mother and … [Read more...] about Mother Road

Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration

June 10, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

When he was just fourteen and called by Robert Kelley to come and play the piano for a local theatre’s rehearsal session, could then young William Liberatore ever imagine that nearly five decades later in 2024 he would be opening his fiftieth show as music director with that same company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley – a show he and Kelley, the company’s founder and now- … [Read more...] about Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration

Young Frankenstein

June 7, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Young Frankenstein Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan (Book); Mel Brooks (Music & Lyrics) Los Altos Stage Company When it comes to parody and farce, who does it better than Mel Brooks?  Whether garnering tear-producing laughs by satirizing Star Wars movies (Spaceballs), Alfred Hitchcock thrillers (Anxiety), westerns (Blazing Saddles), Broadway (Producers), and so much … [Read more...] about Young Frankenstein

Everybody’s Talking about Jamie

June 6, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Everybody’s Talking about Jamie Dan Gillespie Sells (Score) & Tom MacRae (Book & Lyrics) Based Jamie: Drag Queen at 16, Directed by Jenny Popplewell Ray of Light Theatre What better way for a San Francisco audience to celebrate Pride Month than enjoying to the hilt a joyous, upbeat, and totally inspiring coming out story of a sixteen-year-old whose only dream … [Read more...] about Everybody’s Talking about Jamie

Dear San Francisco

June 1, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Dear San Francisco Shana Carroll & Gypsy Snider, Co-Creators A Production of The 7 Fingers at Club Fugazi Co-created by choreographic superstars Shana Carroll and Gypsy Snider, Dear San Francisco is ninety-minutes of breath-taking, heart-pumping acrobatics; aerial exhibitions; vaulting bodies; juggling of hats and umbrellas; hoop diving; and so much more.  But what … [Read more...] about Dear San Francisco

The Lehman Trilogy

May 30, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Lehman Trilogy Stefano Massini Adapted by Ben Power American Conservatory Theater It is a story whose ending we already too well know.  The world’s fourth largest investment bank files for the biggest bankruptcy in American history, sending Wall Street into panic and initiating the 2008-09 global financial crisis and the collapse of numerous, other banking … [Read more...] about The Lehman Trilogy

Galileo

May 16, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

Galileo Danny Strong (Book); Michael Weiner & Zoe Sarnack (Music & Lyrics) Berkeley Repertory Theatre From one side we hear, “Science asks the questions; the Bible has the answers;” from the opposing view, “The Scriptures is a book about going to heaven; it is not a book about how the heavens go.” Sounds like countering arguments made in some current, state … [Read more...] about Galileo

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

The Glass Menagerie

May 9, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds

The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams San Francisco Playhouse As we enter the theatre, we immediately notice at the stage’s corner a young man intently smoking, looking one moment longingly into a non-descript distance and writing the next with much intent into a small notebook clasped tightly in his hand.  In between, he rummages through a collection of records, … [Read more...] about The Glass Menagerie

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