Playwright Lauren Ollstein based her bittersweet play "They Promised Her the Moon" on the story of real-life pilots Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:45AMChic Street Man was absolutely steamin’ in 2009 when he stalked sensuously on stage at the Lucie Stern Theatre, playing guitar and singing John Lee Hooker’s “Crawlin’ King Snake.” …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:42AMHow does a beautiful young woman who was named Miss Santa Clara and Miss Silicon Valley become one of the ugly stepsisters of “Cinderella”? Simple. Douglas Carter Beane rewrote the book …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:01AMHere’s a clue about the knock-down-drag-out comedy of “One Man, Two Guvnors,” which Palo Alto Players is staging: In addition to having a director, it has a “physical comedy” direc…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:01AMWhen he reviewed the world premiere of “Archduke” in 2017, Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty praised the first scene of the Rajiv Joseph play, which is about the teenage…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:01AMWell, yes, “Mamma Mia!” has been on pretty much every stage from San Francisco to San Jose. Kindergarten classes have probably staged it. What’s your point? Is it overdone? Hillbarn Th…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:15AMThere are at least three versions of the musical “Flower Drum Song” in the world, and the main thing they have in common are the songs of Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The mus…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:01AMCity Lights Theater Company presents Sarah Ruhl's evocative "Eurydice" with sign language actors complementing the action.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:51PMPalo Alto Players staging a wonderful production of the classic musical
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:21PMHer 'tokyo fish story’ opening at TheatreWorks this week
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:41PMHershey Felder is continuing to break his own TheatreWorks box-office record for his "Iriving Berlin" show, which is at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts through Sunday, and i…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:09PMJust weeks after setting its box-office record with "Jane Austen's 'Emma,'" TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has broken the record again, with "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin" -- which still has…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:02AMThe Dragon Productions Theatre continues to thrive since its move from Palo Alto to Redwood City in 2012.
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