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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

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

Penelope

March 29, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds

Penelope Ellen McLaughlin (Text); Sarah Kirkland Snider (Music) The Pear Theatre in a co-production with Bootstrap Theater Foundation Twenty years after divorcing a man who constantly lied to her, she opens her front door to find a nurse with someone she is told is her husband, someone she does not recognize just as he does not know who she is.  He is returning … [Read more...] about Penelope

Wild with Happy

March 16, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Wild with Happy Colman Domingo New Conservatory Theatre Center Grief comes in ways unexpected for Gil as he tries his best to rush through the whole process in dealing with his mom's sudden passing where she resides in his hometown of Philly.  After all, the struggling actor (and Yale English lit grad) needs to return tomorrow to New York for a call-back audition … [Read more...] about Wild with Happy

Nobody Loves You

March 13, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds

Nobody Loves You Itamar Moses (Book); Gaby Alter (Music & Lyrics) American Conservatory Theater When reality TV with a "You're-off-the-island" edge merges with a bachelor/bachelorette dating show format that opens the floodgates for immediate social media inputs, memes, and votes for winners, then the result is a rom-com that is furiously fun from beginning to … [Read more...] about Nobody Loves You

Crushing

February 28, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds 1 Comment

Crushing Nine Various Writers & Performers; Megan Calfas & Carly Steyer, Co-Producers & Co-Directors Bayfront Theater After a "bad heartbreak" break-up in 2021, Carly Steyer began collecting first-person love stories, soon discovering -- as noted in the evening's program notes -- "we all have a love or almost-love that has altered how we know ourselves." … [Read more...] about Crushing

The Gods of Comedy

February 25, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds

The Gods of Comedy Ken Ludwig The Pear Theatre Warning: If ever in dire trouble, think twice before blurting out, "Oh save me, ancient gods of Greece."  Should you do so, you may unleash on yourself one of the craziest, funniest, and most engaging farces that would make Aristophanes or Plautus proud.  You should then be ready for a laugh-a-minute two hours where … [Read more...] about The Gods of Comedy

The Marriage of Figaro

February 22, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer; Lorenzo do Ponte, Original Italian Libretto Donald Pippin, English Version Pocket Opera Since its Vienna premiere in 1786, perhaps there is no better-loved, globally popular opera than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, an operatic comedy with laugh-out-loud mix-ups and shenanigans; … [Read more...] about The Marriage of Figaro

Uncle Vanya

February 20, 2025 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov Adapted by Conor McPherson Berkeley Repertory Theatre, in Co-Production with Shakespeare Theatre Company In a co-production with Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre opens a stunning, star-rich, spectacularly directed Uncle Vanya bursting with dark humor and laugh-out-loud wit, brimming with … [Read more...] about Uncle Vanya

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