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REVIEW- Mauritius – The Pear Avenue Theatre
Sometimes I think a play is written on a dare. In the case of Mauritius, I envision someone saying to the playwright, “I bet you a million dollars you can’t write a suspense thriller revolving around...
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REVIEW – 9 Circles – Renegade Theatre Experiment
I consider myself an expert in many things. I do. Certainly I can navigate my way around a play and its content. Surely, I can muster an interpretation, right? But, it would seem that Renegade...
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REVIEW – Buried Child – San Jose Stage Company
Wait, what?! What just happened? Oh, Buried Child. That’s what just happened. San Jose Stage, you crazy, crazy theatre company. Leave it to you to take your audience on one messed up, wacky, WTF...
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REVIEW- ART – NORTHSIDE THEATRE COMPANY
The question is “What is Art?” The answer is, well… not that simple as you’d expect. It’s in the eye of the beholder right? Oh wait, that’s beauty. But, it’s sort of the same thing, yeah? In the eye of...
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THEATRE REVIEW – Dial M for Murder – SANTA CLARA PLAYERS
Nothing beats a night of murder, unless, of course, it’s a night of conspiracy and murder. That’s just what Santa Clara Players presents in their production of Dial M for Murder. This clever show has...
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REVIEW- TOTEM – Cirque Du Soleil
Despite the casual nature and relaxed footwear that constitutes my daily fashion default, my inner chick does enjoy dressing up for a night out. Pair that with big budget death-defying circus acts...
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REVIEW- NEXT TO NORMAL – SAN JOSE REPERTORY THEATRE
Severe mental health problems and the havoc that they wreak on a family, wouldn’t necessarily serve as my first choice for an evening’s entertainment. Fold that plot into a musical vessel and, it’s...
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REVIEW- Disconnect – San Jose Rep
There’s perfect metaphor for every live theater experience and for the San Jose Rep’s Disconnect, this metaphor was a giant novelty gumball machine. While that should be a totally sufficient...
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REVIEW- BLUE MAN GROUP – BROADWAY SAN JOSE
Aside from an unexpected and upsetting allergic reaction to Dramamine one time, I’ve never done hallucinogenic drugs, nor do I condone their use, but having seen Blue Man Group, I kinda feel like I...
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REVIEW – HEDDA GABLER – CITY LIGHTS THEATER COMPANY
Move over Joan Collins. Take a number Omarosa. Not so fast Mommy Dearest. Don’t call us, we’ll call you Scarlett O’Hara. If anything opens up in the cray-cray division we’ll let you women know, but...
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REVIEW – Eurydice – Douglas Morrisson Theatre
I don’t consider myself to be a very emotional being. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I’m intuitive and perceptive with regard to emotion, I’m just not easily or often found actually exhibiting...
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REVIEW – Boeing, Boeing – Palo Alto Players
Not unlike air-travel during the holidays, the lead up to my arrival at Boeing, Boeing was quite the adventure. While parking was a challenge to begin with (there was a wedding in addition to the...
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REVIEW – A Minister’s Wife – San Jose Repertory Theatre
Somehow I’ve made it through life as double English and Drama major, audience member and longtime theater participant without ever having seen or read a version of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida. While...
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REVIEW- Happy Days – Stanford Summer Theater
My parents like to tell the story of coming in to check on me when I was a baby and quite often finding me wide awake, happy as a lark, just babbling to myself in my crib. What I was saying or...
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REVIEW – One Night With Janis Joplin – San Jose Rep
Here is a list of my not-so-favorite things, also known as “Why theoretically, I should not have liked One Night With Janis Joplin at the San Jose Rep:” Celebration of 60/70’s drug culture, musicals...
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REVIEW- SPAMALOT – HILLBARN THEATRE
My family is very much a fan of Monty Python and the show and the films were an integral part of my upbringing. I surmise, the call of “bring out your dead” on laundry days may have been the only way...
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REVIEW – THE SNOW QUEEN – San Jose Repertory Theatre
While exciting and potentially a great collaborative exercise, producing a new work comes with a lot of pressures and expectations. Even when you’ve lined up the most fabulous of creative teams,...
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REVIEW – Forbidden Broadway – San Jose Repertory Theatre
Sometimes there is, in fact, a very logical explanation for something that has lasted so long. With several incarnations, updated along with the trends and shows of the Great White Way, Forbidden...
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REVIEW – An Inspector Calls – Stanford Repertory Theater
An Inspector Calls is one of those plays that someone who’s been participating in theater since age 4 should probably have seen, read, or been in at least a few times by the time they graduate college...
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REVIEW – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Broadway San Jose
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat…what ARE you? I mean, I don’t…I can’t…I just…I’m not sure I know what to do with you. You’re just all over the place. Broadway San Jose typically surprises...
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