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REVIEW – An Inspector Calls – Stanford Repertory Theater
An Inspector Calls is one of those plays that someone who’s been participating in theater since age 4 should probably have seen, read, or been in at least a few times by the time they graduate college...
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REVIEW – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Broadway San Jose
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat…what ARE you? I mean, I don’t…I can’t…I just…I’m not sure I know what to do with you. You’re just all over the place. Broadway San Jose typically surprises...
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REVIEW – Educating Rita – California Theatre Center Summer Rep
I took in Educating Rita (the first play in California Theatre Center’s Summer Rep season) last week and found it mentally compatible and exceedingly amiable. The play which focuses on the evolution of...
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REVIEW- Bonnie & Clyde – San Jose Stage
When seeing a musical, one of the questions I always try to ask myself is “Is this story told better by being a musical?” In the case of Bonnie and Clyde at San Jose Stage, I think I was wooed by the...
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REVIEW – Moby Dick Rehearsed – Stanford Repertory Theater
I’m not wowed easily when it comes to the stage. I approach each show with positive hope that I’ll be witness to a new story or new way of telling a story, but I don’t bank on it. I don’t mean to sound...
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REVIEW- Funny Girl- Hillbarn Theatre
It’s nearly impossible to leave your own experiences, prejudices and expectations of a show at the theater entrance. Try as you might to distance yourself from previous versions of a show you’ve seen,...
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REVIEW-Wonder of the World-Douglas Morrisson Theatre
I know I sound like a broken record, but just walking into the Douglas Morrison Theatre is an experience in and of itself. The preset stage in general has a far too underutilized function of telling...
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REVIEW – Hank Williams: Lost Highway – Douglas Morrison Theatre
The acting ante is certainly being upped as more and more shows about musicians are being produced; shows where it is absolutely essential that the actors expertly play their own instruments. While I’m...
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REVIEW – Curtains – Hillbarn Theater
Sometimes a show can be so fun, that even some atypically bad luck or questionable choices don’t irrevocably harm the overall production. Curtains is a big show, with big songs, big dance numbers, big...
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REVIEW- RFK – San Jose Stage Company
There are days of late, when I spy a gray hair protruding from my pigtails and I think for a moment; so this is “old.” Such moments seem increasingly more frequent for this lady in her 40th year and...
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