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Sweat
Palo Alto Players opens a raw, gritty, honest-to-the-core production of Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat” with a cast’s performances that grab you with a firm grip, shake you to the core, and leave you a different person than when you entered Lucie Stern Theatre.
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Co-Founders
“Co-founders” is a new, hip-hop musical that is a great gift by American Conservatory Theatre to the Bay Area and one where we all leave with a challenge for our own lives that “You gotta believe you can code in a new way.”
Sweet Charity
Sometimes there are so many aspects of a spectacular production that it is almost impossible to know where to begin. That is especially true for San Jose Stage Company’s current summer hit-in-the-making, “Sweet Charity.”
Next to Normal
Ray of Light stages a “Next to Normal” that boldly and unabashedly presents some of life’s darkest moments in a musical guaranteed to leave its audiences leaving with a sense of renewal and a smile amid their tears.
Twelfth Night
Rhe animated energy and comic prowess of the cast along with many humor-inspired touches by director Sara K. Dean win out for a sojourn in the eclectic, gender-bending, mixed-up Illyria that is fun and funny as San Jose Stage Company presents Kwame Kwei-Armah & Shaina Taub’s musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
Harvey Milk Reimagined
May Opera Paralléle’s current monumental staging of Steward Wallace and Michael Korie’s “Harvey Milk Reimagined” serve as our reminder never to forget, always to keep fighting for the this great one named Milk who came before us.
