top of page
Search


"Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: A New Musical," show #917
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is premiering a new musical adaptation, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: A New Musical. ...
Jul 34 min read


"The Sound of Music," show #912
The Berkeley hills are alive with the sound of music in a riveting production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein II classic. The opening...
May 293 min read


"Brigadoon," show #911
The Lerner and Loewe, Scottish-set, time-travel musical, Brigadoon , is receiving a terrific homage to Golden Age musical authenticity at...
May 283 min read


"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


"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


"Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical," show #871
Two things can be true at the same time. Don Cornelius was an often revered man who made Soul Train, a television show celebrating music...
Sep 21, 20233 min read


"Noises Off," show #870
When the Municipal Theatre presents their love story-gone-wrong, Nothing On, audiences are treated to a tech rehearsal—but it might be a...
Sep 21, 20233 min read


"The Play That Goes Wrong," show #859
When the star of a play is the set, one must rely on a cast that supports that set as well as top-of-the-line scenic designers. The...
Feb 10, 20232 min read


"Picasso at the Lapin Agile," show #858
I went into Los Altos Stage Company’s production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile completely cold to the script. I’d heard about it, I...
Feb 8, 20233 min read


"Fun Home," show #845
It’s not often a graphic novel-memoir gets the stage adaptation treatment, let alone a musical stage adaptation, let alone a Tony-winning...
Jul 22, 20224 min read


"Follies"
Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman were on to something when they wrote Follies. Often cited as among Sondheim’s top scores, Follies...
Jul 21, 20223 min read


"Ragtime," show #842
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is running an intimately cast but mightily performed production of the modern epic musical, Ragtime. I use...
Jun 20, 20224 min read


"Freestyle Love Supreme," show #827
I coach the Improv team at the high school I teach; I took a whole quarter of Improv in my college theatre program; I can’t freestyle or...
Feb 11, 20223 min read


"My Fair Lady" show #825
I am of the Golden Age fandom who thinks My Fair Lady is a wonderfully entertaining musical which will be lost to time in the nearing...
Dec 16, 20213 min read
bottom of page