Feb 102 min"The Play That Goes Wrong," show #859When 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 83 min"Picasso at the Lapin Agile," show #858I 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...
Jul 22, 20224 min"Fun Home," show #845It’s not often a graphic novel-memoir gets the stage adaptation treatment, let alone a musical stage adaptation, let alone a Tony-winning...
Jul 21, 20223 min"Follies"Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman were on to something when they wrote Follies. Often cited as among Sondheim’s top scores, Follies...
Jun 20, 20224 min"Ragtime," show #842TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is running an intimately cast but mightily performed production of the modern epic musical, Ragtime. I use...
Feb 11, 20223 min"Freestyle Love Supreme," show #827I 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...
Dec 16, 20213 min"My Fair Lady" show #825I 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...