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Gem of the Ocean

April 12, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Gem of the Ocean August Wilson TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Arriving amidst a COVID shut-down to assume his position as only the second Artistic Director of the Tony-Award-winning, fifty-two-year-old company TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, nationally known director Tim Bond has had to wait almost two years to bring his vast experience and unique insight as a director … [Read more...] about Gem of the Ocean

August: Osage County

April 9, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

August: Osage County Tracy Letts San Jose Stage Company   Why do we return time and again to the muck and mirk, the venom and vile of such time-honored works as Macbeth or Who Killed Virginia Woolf?  In many ways, these are not pleasant outings at the theatre; but a great production of either can be exhilarating and entertaining just the same, given great … [Read more...] about August: Osage County

Fefu and Her Friends

April 7, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds

Fefu and Her Friends María Irene Fornés American Conservatory Theater It is New England in the mid 1930s; flowers are blooming, birds are singing; and Fefu has invited seven of her female, educator friends to come to her lovely countryside estate to practice their talks for an upcoming event – a reunion of former classmates, some of whom have not seen each other in … [Read more...] about Fefu and Her Friends

Hotter than Egypt

April 6, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Hotter than Egypt Yussef El Guindi Marin Theatre Company, in Co-Production with A Contemporary Theatre Wisconsinites Jean and Paul are in exotic Egypt to bask in the winter sun, sail on the Nile on feluccas, and relish the history of the museums – all as part of their twenty-fourth wedding anniversary celebration.  Engaged and soon to be married, Cairenes Maha and … [Read more...] about Hotter than Egypt

Vietgone

March 28, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds

Vietgone Qui Nguyen (with Original Music by Shane Rettig) City Lights Theater Company   On the surface, a story detailing the journey of some Vietnamese immigrants as they escape the fall of Saigon in 1975 and land in a refugee camp in Arkansas, Vietgone is actually an irreverent, topsy-turvy, wild ride of a moving and engaging love story – in this case, a … [Read more...] about Vietgone

Escape from the Asylum

March 20, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds

Escape from the Asylum Patricia Milton Central Works When in June 2019 I reviewed Central Works’ world premiere of Patricia Milton’s The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective, I ended my glowing review of the gripping, yet humorous murder mystery with a hope “the playwright decides that – just like Holmes and Watson – Fortescue, Hunter, and Smalls might deserve … [Read more...] about Escape from the Asylum

Passing Strange

March 14, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds

Passing Strange Stew (Book & Lyrics); Stew & Heidi Rodewald (Music) Created in Collaboration with Annie Dorsey Shotgun Players A young, wide-eyed teenager – identified only as “Youth” – is searching for his real self, something beyond his life as a middle-class, black kid in Los Angeles living with his big-hearted, Jesus-loving mom.  His multi-year … [Read more...] about Passing Strange

Sense and Sensibility

March 13, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds

Sense and Sensibility Paul Gordon (Book, Music & Lyrics) Based on the Novel by Jane Austin TheatreWorks Silicon Valley   For those who have experienced even a few of the 175 plays and musicals that Robert Kelley directed during the first fifty years of the Tony Award winning company he founded – Theatreworks Silicon Valley – there are much … [Read more...] about Sense and Sensibility

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

February 25, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Jack Thorne Based on Story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany Curran Theater   In a world full of eye-popping, hair-raising, gasp-producing illusions and magic, steep staircases dance as if stars in a ballet; doors and suitcases waltz and twirl; and an ancient, arched ceiling reaching to the heavens transforms … [Read more...] about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Celebrating 150 Years of Gilbert and Sullivan! A Sesquicentennial Soiree of Scenes

February 20, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Celebrating 150 Years of Gilbert and Sullivan!  A Sesquicentennial Soiree of Scenes Lamplighters Music Theatre W.S. Gilbert (Lyrics); Arthur Sullivan (Music)   With a triumphant heralding of opening notes emerging from an orchestra pit that has been empty during two years of COVID, Lamplighters Music Theatre returns with glorious flair just in time to celebrate … [Read more...] about Celebrating 150 Years of Gilbert and Sullivan! A Sesquicentennial Soiree of Scenes

The Hollow

February 15, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Hollow Agatha Christie City Lights Theater Company   Full disclosure: “Whodunit” is about to be revealed.  It happened at City Lights Theatre Company (and will continue happening until March 6).  It was done with the 1951 play script of The Hollow by Dame Agatha Christie, the globally famed author of the third-most books in publication behind only … [Read more...] about The Hollow

Pass Over

February 9, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Pass Over Antionette Chinonye Nwandu Marin Theatre Company “I got plans to get off this block.” … “How we get off this block?” … “Are we fixin’ to get off this block?” … “Let’s do this shit.  Pass over.” On a desolate, dark street where we see only a metal guard rail; a crumbling concrete curb with a few weeds poking through; and a lone, oft flickering … [Read more...] about Pass Over

Gloria

March 12, 2020 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Into a drab-gray, Manhattan office of half-walled cubicles and several desks within touching range of each other drag in one-by-one, three editorial assistants with the morning already half over.  Immediately begins a barrage of back-and-forth banter that includes arrow-sharp insults full of cynicism; biting gossip about colleagues not within earshot; and soap-box diatribes … [Read more...] about Gloria

They Promised Her the Moon

March 9, 2020 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

One was among the most successful racing pilots of her day and the first woman to break the sound barrier on May 18, 1953.  The other began flying at the age of twelve and by her twenties, was setting world records in flying speeds, distance, and altitude.  The former (Jackie Cochran) helped form and finance Mercury 13, a group of accomplished women flyers who underwent the … [Read more...] about They Promised Her the Moon

Don’t Eat the Mangos

March 7, 2020 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

While entering the theatre and being tempted to do a few salsa steps to the hip-swiveling Latinx music playing all around us, it is impossible not to notice there are mangos – many rotting – piled on the floor of the tropical house’s kitchen.  There is also a tree laden with ripening mangos that is intertwined into the decorative, iron-gate entrance to the house – a tree that … [Read more...] about Don’t Eat the Mangos

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