Monday, April 21, 2025
CYRANO GETS A CONFUSING NOSE JOB Why anyone involved in Los Altos Stage Company's current production of Cyrano thought it would be a good idea to make Cyrano a woman"and without the trademar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AMPalo Alto Players' Jersey Boys Finds the Beat, Even When the Staging Stumbles Opening night at Palo Alto Players' Jersey Boys had the Lucie Stern audience itching to jump out of their seats …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AMSunday, April 20, 2025
COUCH SURFING AND CULTURAL BAGGAGE It makes sense that Jeffrey Lo"a Filipino artist who writes, directs, and knows the Peninsula theater scene inside and out"could write a play like Writing …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
With just two actors onstage for 90 minutes, The Heart Sellers relies entirely on the chemistry, charisma, and emotional intelligence of its performers"and in TheatreWorks's production, Nico…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:32PMFriday, March 14, 2025
WILD ROMP IN SENIOR LIVING TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has launched an uproarious spoof of senior living with Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical. It's an all-…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:40AMSaturday, March 8, 2025
A MUSICAL THAT CURVES IN CONCENTRIC CIRCLES Fly by Night, an affecting chamber musical which premiered in 2014 at Playwrights Horizon, has been described as a "darkly comic rock-fable," and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:23PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
WHO ARE YOU ASKING TO THE PROM? It may not be high school or college prom season just yet, but in the San Francisco Bay Area, at least three theatre companies have decided it's time to dust …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AMThursday, January 30, 2025
NOSTALGIA NEVER GETS OLD When The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams premiered on Broadway in 1945, it became his first major success. Nearly 80 years later, the play remains relevant, to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AMSunday, January 26, 2025
THE MINUTE THAT CHANGED POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING FOREVER On September 7, 1964, a 60-second TV ad transformed American politics. Known as "Daisy Girl," it featured a young girl counting daisy pe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:56PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
LAUGH-A-MINUTE FUN When English playwright Michael Frayn wrote his slapstick farce in 1982, it bore little resemblance to the production that opened Saturday night at the Lucie Stern Theater…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:43AMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Hershey Felder has become synonymous with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, returning year after year from Europe to present his original musical productions. This year, he brings Rachmaninoff an…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:32PMMonday, December 9, 2024
AN AMUSING ROMANTIC ROMP ALL 'SPRUCED' UP With Christmas just around the corner, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley offers up a light-hearted, romantic comedy Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25AMSunday, December 8, 2024
ANASTHESIA A sold-out opening night audience Dec. 6 was likely entranced with the lovely costumes, fine acting, solid choreography and strong vocal performances in Anastasia at Hillbarn Thea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:01PMMonday, December 2, 2024
NOSTALGIC, SAPPY FUN If you're in the mood for a night of campy humor with a Christmas-y theme, head to Bus Barn Theatre in Los Altos for its production of A Christmas Story: The Musical. Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:19PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
Kaufman & Hart's 30s Comedy Shows that Love Conquers All by Joanne Engelhardt Who knew that a 1936 comedy could feel so fresh and fun? Director Tom Gough brings joy to Foothill Co…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 01:56PMWednesday, 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 instrumen…
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, …
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 no…
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 emplo…
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 actors' …
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 Palo Al…
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 God (a…
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, online throu…
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 TheatreWorks …
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 July 27. The…
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 festiv…
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 and mana…
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's…
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's artist…
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 10:03AM 
