ChessBenny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (Music); Tim Rice (Lyrics)Custom Made Theatre Company The Cast of "Chess"Produced first as a concept album in 1984 with music by Benny Andersson and BjörnUlvaeus (both formerly with ABBA and later to be associated with the mega hit Mamma Mia) and lyrics by Tim Rice (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor … [Read more...] about “Chess”
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“Sam and Dede (Or, My Dinner with Andre the Giant)”
Sam and Dede (Or My Dinner with Andre the Giant)Gino DilorioCustom Made Theatre CompanySam (Dave Sikula) Drives Dede (Brendan Averett) to SchoolA writer afraid of words befriends a giant trying to hide. That the former is the Nobel prize-winning, Irish writer Samuel Beckett and the latter is his French, twelve-year-old neighbor, Andre, already over six feet tall and 240 … [Read more...] about “Sam and Dede (Or, My Dinner with Andre the Giant)”
“Of Serpents and Sea Spray”
Of Serpents and Sea SprayRachel BublitzCustom Made Theatre CompanyHeren Patel, Maria Leigh, Laura Domingo & Maria Giere Marquis“Many years ago, in a land faraway there lived a winged horse named Pegasus.” With those few words, a little girl’s imagination opens up a world where she has hunted giants in Chile, ridden on the back of the fabled horse over the Great Wall … [Read more...] about “Of Serpents and Sea Spray”
“In Love and Warcraft”
In Love and WarcraftMadhuri ShekarThe Custom Made Theatre Company Ed Berkeley & Monica HoHormones are racing; hearts are pumping; and bodies are gyrating up and down with sweat dripping freely from head to toe as four SoCal college types (two men, two women) go at it. But these four are not having a raging sex party in some campus frat or dorm (at least not at this … [Read more...] about “In Love and Warcraft”
“How the World Began”
How the World BeganCatherine TrieshmannCustom Made TheatreEscaping personal issues in New York to come teach high school science in a small, tornado-devastated Kansas town, a pregnant, husbandless Susan comes hoping to renew her life and to help this traumatized community. A flippant remark to a class of sophomores, describing theories of “spontaneous creation of the … [Read more...] about “How the World Began”
“Late: A Cowboy Song”
Late: A Cowboy SongSarah RuhlCustom Made TheatreOne of our currently most prolific and recently most-produced-in-the-Bay-Area playwrights, Sarah Ruhl, returns to a local stage in a production of an early play that foreshadows the themes, the aura, and women of her later, now-well-known/loved works (e.g., In the Next Room, Eurydice, Clean House, Dead Man's Cell Phone). … [Read more...] about “Late: A Cowboy Song”
