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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

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

In Every Generation

January 26, 2023 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

In Every Generation Ali Viterbi TheatreWorks Silicon Valley During the Jewish, Passover Seder, there is a section recounting all the blessings and miracles the Israelites have received; and after each is recited, those gathered around the festival table say, “Dayenu,” “It would have been enough.”  In Ali Viterbi’s 2022-premiering play In Every Generationtime travels … [Read more...] about In Every Generation

Ragtime the Musical

June 7, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds

Ragtime Terrence McNally (Book); Stephen Flaherty (Music); Lynn Ahrens (Lyrics) Based on the novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Let me begin with an upfront confession.  In my humble opinion, if there is one musical that could be called “The Great American Musical,” it is Ragtime.  Based on E. L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel by the same name, … [Read more...] about Ragtime the Musical

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

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

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

The Pianist of Willesden Lane

January 20, 2020 by Eddie Reynolds

“The most important hour of my week is my piano lesson … I always dress up for my piano lesson … I have to look divine.” And with that, a fourteen-year-old girl who dreams someday of her concert debut at Vienna’s famed Musikverein Concert Hall sits down at the Steinway to play her favorite piece, Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16, fingers flying effortlessly across … [Read more...] about The Pianist of Willesden Lane

Pride and Prejudice

December 12, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds

The month of December, Broadway composer Paul Gordon, and Director Robert Kelley have a special, intertwined relationship that time and again has resulted in heartwarming, big-smile-producing gifts for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley audiences.  Multiple musicals of the Tony-honored Paul Gordon have appeared and often premiered on that stage, with two of them reprising in Decembers … [Read more...] about Pride and Prejudice

Mark Twain’s River of Song

October 10, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Part a nineteenth-century cabaret show, part a travelogue of the past, and part a famed writer’s recollections of his life on and around the river, Mark Twain’s River of Song is a journey so worth taking in this TheatreWorks Silicon Valley celebration of the human spirit and its quest for freedom, individuality, and harmony with one of nature’s most beautiful of gifts – the … [Read more...] about Mark Twain’s River of Song

“The 39 Steps”

August 31, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The 39 StepsAdapted by Patrick BarlowBased on the Novel by John BuchanFrom the Movie by Alfred HitchcockTheatreWorksSilicon ValleyLance Gardner, Ron Campbell, Annie Abrams & Cassidy BrownFour actors playing upwards of one-hundred-plus parts.  Eighty costume changes, with a total of fifty different costumes often switched in split-second timing on stage.  Bridges, … [Read more...] about “The 39 Steps”

“The Language Archive”

July 15, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Language ArchiveJulia ChoTheatreWorks Silicon ValleyThe CastIn her play, The Language Archive, Julia Cho explores that interplay of language and love as we meet a couple in the course of a break-up because spoken words fail them, an elderly couple who have spent a lifetime differentiating the languages of love and of conflict, and a young woman who learns a new language … [Read more...] about “The Language Archive”

“Archduke”

June 11, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

ArchdukeRajiv JosephTheatreWorks Silicon ValleyJeremy Kahn, Stephen Stocking, Scott Coopwood & Adam Shonkwiler One gun shot and its hapless, men-still-boys perpetrators are the unlikely subjects of a laugh-out-loud retelling of one of history’s darkest moments – World War I’s initiating assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand.  Pulitzer Prize finalist … [Read more...] about “Archduke”

“Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story”

April 8, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Hershey Felder: A Paris Love StoryHershey FelderTheatreWorks Silicon Valley Hershey FelderThe mesmerizing music lures its listeners into a state of relaxed contemplation of the chalk-drawn scenes of the City of Lights that splash one by one on the projected, stage-filling blackboard behind him.  At the piano, we imagine for a moment that the great French … [Read more...] about “Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story”

“Marie and Rosetta”

March 10, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Marie and RosettaGeorge BrantTheatreWorks Silicon ValleyMichelle E Jordan and Marissa RuddGeorge Brant’s Marie and Rosetta receives its foot-tapping, spirit-arousing, and raise-the-roof production at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, returning to its birthplace of sorts where in 2015 the musical was first featured in the company’s annual New Works Festival.  The music and … [Read more...] about “Marie and Rosetta”

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