Sunday, September 13, 2020
A Cupertino teen who medaled in the city’s young artist competition last year is sharing her talents with the younger set. Niketa Krishnan, 14, started tutoring children ages 4-11 in art o…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:28AMSaturday, May 30, 2020
By Jon Huang De Anza College’s Student Art Show is online for the first time, thanks to the campus’s closure during the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual showcase is usually exhibited on cam…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:04AMSunday, April 19, 2020
While its concert series was silenced by the Coronavirus, Montalvo Arts Center is still open to visitors in need of a visual arts fix. The Saratoga venue finds itself in this enviable positi…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:08AMWednesday, March 25, 2020
In deference to Santa Clara County’s “shelter in place” order, Children’s Musical Theater San Jose postponed its Marquee production of “Kinky Boots,” slated for April 17-26, unti…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:27PMThursday, March 12, 2020
“Coded,” a new play by Kirsten Brandt, is a fantasy in more ways than one. Not only is it set in the world of online gaming, but it follows a startup run exclusively by women. Brandt hop…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:11AMSunday, March 8, 2020
Almost a half-century after she co-founded Mummenschanz, Floriana Frassetto says the mime troupe’s audiences still give her the energy to perform. She and co-founders Bernie Schürch and A…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:14AMSunday, March 1, 2020
The headline for Jerrie Cobb’s obituary in the New York Times states that the pilot “found a glass ceiling in space.” Cobb, who died in March 2019 at age 88, was well on her way to bec…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:29AMLike many Cupertino residents, Jing Jing Yang came to the city from China. As Cupertino’s new poet laureate, Yang said she wants to inspire other immigrants to create in both their native …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:07AMSunday, February 23, 2020
He’s an aquatic mammal who models healthy eating habits and lifestyle choices for young children. He’s been the subject of books and plays, and now Potter the Otter has an exhibit named …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:36AMJames Kudelka was at a disadvantage when BalletMet Columbus asked him to choreograph a piece for a program based on American pop music. Kudelka grew up in Newmarket, Canada, listening to cla…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:27AMFriday, February 21, 2020
Charles Dickens probably didn’t envision his final novel—a bleak, unfinished murder mystery—starting a new life more than 200 years later as a musical comedy. But the stage version of …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:10AMSunday, January 19, 2020
The current exhibit at De Anza College’s Euphrat Museum of Art honors women whose courage and creativity helped change the world. “Women Pathmakers” is on view through March 12 in conj…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:54AMKevin Surace is a familiar face in the orchestra pit for the Sunnyvale Community Players, having worked as music director on several shows with the company. As the Players’ new artistic di…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:41AMSunday, January 12, 2020
When Carla Pontoja first got the script for “Stage Kiss,” running Jan. 16-Feb. 16 at City Lights Theater Company, she flagged every instance of violence or intimacy. “It was a book ful…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:33AMFriday, January 10, 2020
Music moved pianist Mona Golabek to tell the story of her mother, herself a pianist whose career was cut short when the Nazis occupied Austria.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:34AMSunday, December 8, 2019
Ryan Ballard will tell you he’s one lucky young man. Just a year out of college, the San Jose native landed a role in the ensemble of the national touring company of “Waitress,” Sara B…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:16AMSunday, December 1, 2019
’Tis the season of Jane Austen, at least among local theater companies. “The Wickhams’ Christmas at Pemberley,” Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s companion piece to their “Pri…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:59AMFriday, November 1, 2019
The entries in Dove Art Gallery’s second annual Juried Art Competition range from a 3-D depiction of Calvary to a box painted in the style of Dutch chests from the 1800s. In addition to Mi…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:04AMSunday, October 27, 2019
Since Robert Kelley founded TheatreWorks Silicon Valley 50 years ago, he’s gone from working for groceries while staging his first production to managing an $8.5 million budget that suppor…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:08AMSunday, October 13, 2019
From the PG-13 frights of “Unhinged” to the family-friendly fun of the Trick-or-Treat Trail, the Winchester Mystery House is celebrating Halloween in ways befitting a purportedly haunted…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:08AMThe artists’ reception for “Space and Place,” the new exhibit at the Euphrat Museum of Art, isn’t until Nov. 6, but there are plenty of activities for visitors to the museum at De An…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:50AMFriday, October 11, 2019
A natural disaster in Puerto Rico inspired a Los Gatos business owner to travel there to offer aid not once but twice. And now she’s planning a public event to tell the community about it.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:47AMSaturday, October 5, 2019
After delving into blues and Appalachian music for their first two shows at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, co-creators Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman went to literary and natural sources for th…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:22AMFriday, September 13, 2019
Los Lupeños de San José this month is celebrating its 50th year as a Mexican folk dance company while honoring the legacy of its founders. The company is hosting a gala dance showcase on S…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:58AMFriday, August 30, 2019
Poets from the Bay Area and beyond will be presenting their works next week during Poetry Center San Jose’s fifth annual San Jose Poetry Festival.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:14AMSaturday, August 24, 2019
As with any play worthy of being called a farce, “The 39 Steps” relies on quick takes and physical humor for laughs. With a cast of four playing dozens of roles in the show, whose script…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:40AMSunday, August 4, 2019
For Erin Mackey, the role of Glinda in “Wicked” feels as comfortable as sliding into a pair of ruby slippers. After 10 years away from the show, Mackey is reprising the role of the Good …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:55AMSunday, July 21, 2019
Staff at the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose hope that young artists who visit the museum’s new studio space will be inspired by its namesake, LeRoy Neiman. “His art is very ap…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:53AMSunday, July 14, 2019
While there are no magical mice in “Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” performers in Foothill Music Theatre’s production say the show will still appeal to fans of the Disney versi…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:48AMFriday, July 12, 2019
It may look as though Montalvo Arts Center has been yarn-bombed, but it’s actually the annual Art on the Grounds Exhibition. “Threads: Weaving Humanity” is a series of four newly commi…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:18AMSunday, July 7, 2019
Jacob Ben-Shmuel has been touring with “The Book of Mormon” for almost two years, but there’s no guarantee that audiences will see him as Elder Cunningham when Broadway San Jose stages…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:34AM 
