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"Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," show #910
Jukebox bio-musicals offer audiences a chance to experience an artist’s story and music performed by a cast of dedicated performers who...
2 days ago2 min read
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NYC 2025 Round-Up; shows #900-908
Conversations with Mother (#900) My NYC 2025 trip kicked off with a Monday night showing of Conversations with Mother , a wonderful play...
6 days ago21 min read
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What the Fresno County Tax Office Taught Me About Teaching
About two years ago, my wife and I became proud, if not suitably stressed, homeowners; you know, mortgages, yard work, never-ending...
May 145 min read
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"Waitress," show #909
Serving up a delicious Central Valley premiere is Good Company Players’ production of Waitress, an adaptation of the 2007 Keri...
May 73 min read
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"The Importance of Being Earnest," show #899
Oscar Wilde knew what he was writing when he wrote it. A timeless, witty, social commentary that allows the actors to give inflection and...
Apr 152 min read
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"Dysfunction" show #898
There’s something to be said when a musical knows exactly what it is. Such is the case for the premiere of the new musical, Dysfunction ,...
Apr 132 min read
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"A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney," show #897
Director Diego J. Sosa went 2-for-2 on helming terrifically envisioned and executed plays at Fresno State’s Experimental Theatre Company...
Apr 82 min read
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"Urinetown" show #896
It’s the title that turns off so many potential audience members from seeing it while the tolerances most have for streaming television,...
Feb 73 min read
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"Red Velvet" show #895
To let Lolita Chakrabarti’s text speak for itself, “we know what we like and like what we know.” Red Velvet is a play that is both...
Dec 10, 20243 min read
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"God of Carnage" show #894
Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage (with translation by Christopher Hampton) is a living room drama that happens to be hilarious. Or, it’s a...
Nov 17, 20242 min read
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Cryptid Groove Promises to be an Immersive Delight this Week!
This Saturday, Aleño Dance Project, Aerial Arts Fresno, and musical artist SAHAB reunite for an immersive performance, Cryptid Groove....
Oct 16, 20241 min read
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"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," show #893
Personally, I find Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to be one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s best scores. It’s fun, diverse, and...
Oct 7, 20242 min read
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"Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really" show #892
Kate Hamill has been taking the literary classics-to-stage adaptations by storm these past few years, and Fresno State University...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
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"The Good, The Bad, and the Ok…I guess" Debuts this Week!
The Aleño Dance Collective is back, in a new space, with a new evening-length dance performance for Fresno audiences. Debuting this...
Sep 24, 20242 min read
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Hair, show #891
Sierra Repertory Theatre continues its run of a terrific, psychedelic production of one of the most game-changing musicals of our era,...
Sep 13, 20242 min read
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"Evil Dead, the Musical" show #890
Selma Arts Center is well in its run of a raucously fun, Evil Dead, the Musical which I had the pleasure of seeing this past weekend....
Aug 25, 20243 min read
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"Super Funtimes Magic!"
Friday night lights at the LAByrinth Art Collective brought fringe-veteran Christopher Bange to the stage. In this two-night stand...
Jul 5, 20242 min read
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"Jersey Boys," show #889
Jersey Boys is not a show one approaches lightly, even with it being a jukebox musical. What elevates a jukebox musical is ensuring the...
Jun 17, 20244 min read
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"Jersey Boys" premieres this week at Selma Arts Center!
Jukebox musicals have become a staple of the musical theatre landscape because people will pay whatever it costs for a two-hour hit of...
Jun 4, 20244 min read
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"Galileo: A Rock Musical" show #888
Berkeley Repertory Theatre has premiered a new rock musical by Danny Strong (Book), Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak (Music and Lyrics) that...
May 28, 20244 min read
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