Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Julian Fellowes & Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Creation Rocks the Rafters by Joanne Engelhardt Take 15 fresh-faced young rock-star kids and let them all do their thing—playing musical instr…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 02:34AMTuesday, August 23, 2022
Hershey Felder Plays Beautifully & Performs with Charm by Joanne Engelhardt If you want to see a superb, polished performance of Fryderyk Chopin playing his music in his Paris salon, th…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:10PMSunday, August 14, 2022
Father Joe Bradley’s Inspirational Story Calls for Sharper Focus by Joanne Engelhardt “The Four Gifts,” at Hillbarn Theatre in Foster City, shows what happens when a person who is …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:38AMSaturday, February 5, 2022
Joanne Engelhardt is a San Jose State University journalism graduate who spent about seven years working at newspapers on the San Francisco Peninsula. Later, she wrote and edited employee …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:21PMSaturday, September 12, 2020
If it weren’t for the impossibly outlandish antics and contorted facial expressions of Emily Scott as God Herself, Palo Alto Players’ take on “An Act of God,” livestreaming from the …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:41AMSunday, September 6, 2020
Perennial TheatreWorks Silicon Valley favorite Hershey Felder is offering a live-streamed performance of “Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone” on Sunday, Sept. 13, to benefit the Pal…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:54AMMonday, August 31, 2020
Palo Alto Players makes its first foray into full-length virtual production when the frothy “An Act of God” opens Sept. 5. First performed on Broadway in 2015 featuring Jim Parsons as Go…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:59AMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Five trans athletes from various sports are set to participate in an Aug. 29 panel discussion that’s part of the Redwood City Festival.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:41PMThursday, August 20, 2020
Although its subject matter makes it tough to watch at points, Pear Theatre’s online production of “Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue” is a well-acted drama. Quiara Alegria Hudes’ play, on…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:04AMThe centennial of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, will be celebrated in song Aug. 26 with a virtual production of “Perfect 36.” A joint collaboration of TheatreWo…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:46AMThursday, July 23, 2020
To launch TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s “New Works from Home” series, the company will offer a benefit online reading of Suzanne Bradbeer’s comedy “Shakespeare in Vegas” through …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:16AMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Redwood City’s Fuse Theatre and Dragon Theatre this year had intended to expand on the one-act festival they co-produced last summer. “Over the next few years, our plan was to build a fe…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:40AMThursday, July 9, 2020
Palo Alto Players Artistic Director Patrick Klein chose an unusual spot for a video message about the theater company’s upcoming “reimagined” season: a bedroom in his home. While he an…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:19AMSunday, July 5, 2020
Audiences who log on July 12 to a livestream benefit performance of Hershey Felder as Beethoven will also have the chance to vote for their favorite artistic interpretation of the composer�…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:00AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
An eccentric, sometimes unsettling, series of digital video productions make up Pear Theatre’s new hodgepodge of vignettes called “This Street and the Next.” Directed by the company’…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:57AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
EnActe is turning the spotlight on women performers and playwrights in a new series of virtual events, plays, readings and more. Women EnActe for Themselves, or WEFT, launches June 27 with a…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:03AMTuesday, June 9, 2020
Pear Theatre in Mountain View is moving ahead in today’s virtual world with a season announcement/subscription kick-off party June 12. Pear Artistic Director Sinjin Jones will host the Pea…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:37PMThursday, June 4, 2020
Any other year, June would be the month when students start looking forward to that last school day and a lazy summer of fun ahead. This year, it’s definitely dicey whether some families w…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:13AMThursday, May 28, 2020
Foothill College’s Theatre Arts Department found itself in the same unenviable muddle as most local theater companies these days: What to do now that it can’t stage its spring production…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:53AMMonday, May 18, 2020
Mountain View’s Pear Theatre came up with a creative way of presenting its annual short-play program despite the current pandemic—“Pear Slices 2020: Digital Edition.” The Pear is pre…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:04PMThursday, May 14, 2020
The annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, which features two Peninsula residents and one San Jose world premiere, has gone digital this year and is streaming most of its events free of ch…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:17PMFriday, May 8, 2020
A “reimagined” 2020-21 season is in store for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, with the next production now not scheduled to open until next October. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced substan…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:53AMThursday, April 30, 2020
South Bay theaters have found some innovative ways to “keep the lights on” virtually even as their physical spaces remain shuttered while the “shelter in place” order is in effect. L…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:59AMFriday, April 17, 2020
Necessity is the mother of virtual classes, which is what many Peninsula theater companies are ramping up right now. Los Alto Stage Company introduced several unusual virtual classes earlier…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:00AMFriday, April 3, 2020
That old expression “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” has never been more apt for theater companies throughout the Bay Area, which are dark until the “shelter in place” ord…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:24AMTuesday, March 24, 2020
With Bay Area theaters on a hard stop during the coronavirus “shelter-in-place” era, some theaters have devised innovative ways to stay relevant. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley followed the…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:17AMFriday, March 13, 2020
To close or not to close. That is the question facing local theater companies in the face of COVID-19. It’s not an easy decision to make because shuttering a theater production—either fo…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:36PMTuesday, March 10, 2020
A tiny wisp of a girl—never more than 100 pounds even as a grown-up—is wrapping TheatreWorks Silicon Valley audiences around her finger at performances of “They Promised Her the Moon�…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:24AMTwo plays, “Confession” by Barry Slater and “The Baltimore Waltz” by Paula Vogel, are in rotating repertory through April 5 at Dragon Theatre in Redwood City. Each is relatively shor…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:33AMFriday, March 6, 2020
What do you get when you combine an unfinished Charles Dickens novel, a music hall of the 1890s, a play within a play, broad (very broad) humor, a number of rather bland songs and a “myste…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:27AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
There’s a whole lot of testosterone on stage in Los Altos Stage Company’s production of “Oslo,” which runs through Feb. 16 at Bus Barn Theater in Los Altos. Despite the fact that thi…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:38AM 
