Wednesday, August 31, 2016
A national tour of 'Hamilton,' the breakaway hip-hop musical, is set to launch in San Francisco March 14-Aug. 5
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:47PM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2016
Tony-nominated composer Andrew Lippa lends his charm to 'The Life of the Party,' an uneven medley of his songbook getting its American premiere at TheatreWorks.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:33PM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2016
Smash Broadway musical 'Beautiful,' built around the life and music of pop legend Carole King, returns to the city where the jukebox hit was born starring Abby Mueller, the big sister of ori…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
'Florence Foster Jenkins' is a heartfelt look at the real-life New York socialite who thought she could sing, although everyone around her could tell she couldn't; but despite lovely turns b…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2016
Grammy and Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr., who made a splash playing the bad-guy Aaron Burr in the hip-hop juggernaut 'Hamilton,' is working on a solo career and brings his cabaret show to Waln…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
This visually compelling but otherwise bland adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1982 fantasy -- starring Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnshill and Penelope Wilton -- just may lull viewers to sleep.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:28PM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2016
Set in South Africa during Apartheid, Athol Fugard's haunting drama about a world in which black lives do not matter is still sadly relevant today.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2016
This kinder, gentler 'Cabaret' is often fun to watch, but it has lost the potency to make us squirm, old chum.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:26PM[SHARE]'Motown: The Musical,' a slick package of 1960s musical nostalgia, overcomes a skimpy story with a nonstop parade of hits and a tireless cast.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:44AM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2016
'The Wild Party,' adapted by Andrew Lippa from a racy poem set during the Roaring '20s, presents a steamy Prohibition tale of sex, drugs and destruction, delivered by San Jose Stage Company.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2016
New theatrical docudrama shatters the silence around abortion issue by giving a voice to women's real-life experiences. Presented by the D.C.-based nonprofit called Advocates for Youth, the …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:29PM[SHARE]'Beautiful' and 'Cabaret' and 'Motown,' oh my! Broadway's greatest hits musicals are heading back to town for a victory lap this summer.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:39PM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2016
An elderly woman, her son and a dozens of Molotov cocktails set the stage for 'Velocity of Autumn,' Eric Coble's drama about the indignities of aging.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 4, 2016
American Conservatory Theater stages the world premiere of Joseph Dougherty's mystery about a wounded soldier who can't remember how he was injured; David Strathairn stars.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:46AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
'Hamilton' creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda will star with Emily Blunt in Disney's 'Mary Poppins Returns.'
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2016
'For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday,'a quirky new fable from brilliant playwright Sarah Ruhl, feels intriguing but unfinished in its West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:07PM[SHARE]Jackson Gay and 'House of Cards' writer Kenneth Lin remix Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' into a gender-bending romantic comedy that benefits from a stellar cast.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
As a theater critic, I prefer musicals with a character-driven story arc. But 'Mamma Mia' is my mom's favorite, and over the years of going with her and feeling her unfettered joy, the chees…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Bust out the lighters! Center Repertory Company scores with the 1980s jukebox musical 'Rock of Ages,' which plays at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center through June 25.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:54PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2016
'Glee' star and San Francisco native Darren Criss will star in the hit musical 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco Oct. 4-30.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2016
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is presenting famed theater director Mary Zimmerman's rollicking adaptation of 'Treasure Island,' the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure novel, through June …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
'Hamilton' creator Lin-Manuel Miranda goes on John Oliver's show to rap for segment on Puerto Rican debt crisis.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:12AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer's roaring solo show about life, loss and musical bliss has west coast premiere at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Award-winning theater director Mary Zimmerman adapts the Robert Louis Stevenson pirate masterpiece 'Treasure Island' for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where it runs April 22-June 5.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
Swinging 1960s sex farce 'Boeing Boeing' hits the runway at San Jose Stage, where it plays through May 1.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:50PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
TheatreWorks production of Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner's unmannered twist on Edmond Rostand's 'Cyrano' has good performances and some inspired moments, but never fully hits on all cyl…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2016
Sean Hayes, of 'Will & Grace' fame, brings a solid dose of holy camp to 'An Act of God,' the Broadway hit that plays in San Francisco through April 17.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
Some are not happy that casting calls for Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash musical 'Hamilton' emphasize that all starring roles will go to nonwhite actors, but producers say that is what makes the…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:41AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
'Will & Grace' star Sean Hayes plays the Almighty in 'An Act of God,' the Broadway that plays in San Francisco through April 17.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:30PM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2016
Sarah Treem, who has written for TV's 'The Affair,' 'In Treatment' and 'House of Cards,' creates an engrossing play of ideas in 'The How and the Why,' which gets its West Coast premiere thro…
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