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The Wizard of Oz

June 8, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

The Wizard of Oz Frank Baum (Book); Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg (Music & Lyrics); Herbert Stothart (Background Music) American Conservatory Theater Let’s be clear: Not only are we not in Kansas anymore, in the current American Conservatory Theater production, we are also definitely not in the same version of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz that we read in … [Read more...] about The Wizard of Oz

1776

May 17, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

1776 Sherman Edwards (Music & Lyrics); Peter Stone (Book) Broadway San Jose How familiar does this sound?  A Congress that seems to get nothing done.  A Congress that is divided into two factions that can barely tolerate each other.  Committees upon committees where members of Congress meet to debate ad nauseum and decide little.  Members of Congress debating who … [Read more...] about 1776

The NI¿¿ER LOVERS

May 7, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

The NI¿¿ER LOVERS: An Amerikkan Musical Marc Anthony Thompson, Writer & Composer Magic Theatre In 1848, a young, married couple devised and successfully executed in eight days a daring, dangerous plan to escape the horrific bondage of slavery in Macon, Georgia to find freedom in Boston – the light-skinned wife disguised as a man and her darker-skinned husband, as … [Read more...] about The NI¿¿ER LOVERS

A Distinct Society

April 12, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

A Distinct Society Kareem Fahmy TheatreWorks Silicon Valley An executive order on January 27, 2017, by a president barely one week in office barred citizens from seven countries – all majority Muslim – from entering the United States.  Protests, legal challenges, and suits followed; but in the meantime, border agencies began reacting and enacting, often changing … [Read more...] about A Distinct Society

The Triumph of Love

April 2, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

The Triumph of Love Pierre De Marivaux, Translated by Stephen Wadsworth Shotgun Players Gender confusions left and right that lead to infatuations built on false pretenses.  A cunning princess plotting to capture the love of a naïve prince who has been taught his whole life to hate and eventually usurp her.  Loves built on mounting lies leading to three planned … [Read more...] about The Triumph of Love

FANNIE: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

March 13, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Cheryl L. West TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Despite having suffered polio as a child, a Mississippi sharecropper worked in the cotton fields twelve-to-eighteen-hour a day starting at the age of six in a state where 77% of the people were Black like she but where the minority whites ran 100% of everything.  But then one day … [Read more...] about FANNIE: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

Perfect Arrangement

March 12, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Perfect Arrangement Topher Payne Hillbarn Theatre & Conservatory The red stage light comes on, accompanied by a resounding ring; theme music fills the air; and lights come up on what could almost be a recreation of Lucy and Desi’s apartment.  Canned applause joins in ushering to the stage another episode of Perfect Arrangement.  But what starts out as a … [Read more...] about Perfect Arrangement

Cambodian Rock Band

March 2, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Cambodian Rock Band Lauren Yee, with Songs by Dengue Fever Berkeley Repertory Theatre Presenting the Signature Theatre Production in Association with Alley Theatre, ACT Theatre/5th Avenue & Center Theatre Group, A play about family displacement, trauma, and massive genocide is not a play one would normally expect often to laugh, to tap one’s foot to rock music, … [Read more...] about Cambodian Rock Band

Dear San Francisco

February 27, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Dear San Francisco Shana Carroll & Gypsy Snider, Co-Creators A Production of The 7 Fingers at Club Fugazi San Francisco’s Club Fugazi is personally for me a sacred space where many memories were created during the more than twenty-five times I attended what became the world’s longest-running cabaret show during its forty-five-year history, Beach Blanket Babylon.  … [Read more...] about Dear San Francisco

The Headlands

February 16, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

The Headlands Christopher Chen American Conservatory Theater   There are so many reasons to get your ticket today to see the West Coast premiere of Christopher Chen’s The Headlands at American Conservatory Theater before the last curtain on March 5: For anyone who lives in or near San Francisco, the play is like a SF love fest, featuring some of the most … [Read more...] about The Headlands

Satchmo at the Waldorf

February 14, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Satchmo at the Waldorf Terry Teachout San Jose Stage Company Coughing and wheezing desperately for his next breath and with shoulders hunched as he stumbles toward the portable oxygen tank in the corner, the elderly man we see entering the large, backstage dressing room still is recognizable at first sight.  After all, who else always has a white handkerchief hanging … [Read more...] about Satchmo at the Waldorf

Miss You Like Hell

February 7, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Miss You Like Hell Quiara Alegría Hudes (Book & Lyrics); Erin McKeown (Music & Lyrics) City Lights Theater Company in Co-Production with Teatro Visión Many a book and movie through the years have chronicled “the great American road trip” across the continent as individuals, friends, and families have ventured into the plains, mountains, and lonely towns in … [Read more...] about Miss You Like Hell

Paradise Blue

February 3, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Paradise Blue Dominique Morisseau Aurora Theatre Company In Aurora Theatre Company’s award-winning Detroit ’67 in 2018, the sounds of Detroit’s homegrown, Motown music were the background beat of Dominique Morisseau’s funny and frightening, heart-warming and heart-stopping play, Detroit ’67, the first of a trilogy about her hometown and a story that explodes amidst … [Read more...] about Paradise Blue

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812

January 30, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 Dave Malloy Shotgun Players Having opened November 15, 2022, Shotgun Players’ audience-immersive, modern-sounding opera set in a Russian cabaret setting of 1812 – Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy – has already received the highest of accolades from both my fellow critics and especially from … [Read more...] about Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812

Sanctuary City

July 15, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Sanctuary City Martyna Majok Berkeley Repertory Theatre, in Association with Arena Stage Two high school seniors each are seeking sanctuary from a life that fate and family have unfortunately gifted them.  B (as in Boy) arrived in this country ten years prior and is now here illegally because his mom overstayed her visa – a mom who now has vowed to leave him and go … [Read more...] about Sanctuary City

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