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Friday, February 6, 2015

Opera San Jose's new risk-taking director by Richard Scheinin

After decades in the shadow of Irene Dalis, Opera San Jose's savvy founder, Larry Hancock already is leaving his mark as the company's new general director. This Saturday through Feb. 22 at …

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:44PM[SHARE]

Friday, July 26, 2013

NY Review: "Monkey: Journey to the West" by Richard Scheinin

There’s everything but synchronized swimming in “Monkey: Journey to the West.” With its acrobats, martial artists and contortionists, its death-defying slack-rope walkers, …

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:51AM[SHARE]

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Review: Tennessee Williams' "The Two-Character Play" by Richard Scheinin

“The Two-Character Play” is Tennessee Williams to the hilt — a world turned in on itself, a closed-circuit system of madness and memories. Williams once called it his ̶…

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:16AM[SHARE]

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Pandora's box and exceptional "Clybourne Park" by Richard Scheinin

In playwright Bruce Norris’s “Clybourne Park,” there’s a well-meaning ’50s housewife named Bev — tall, blond, sunny and always nervously gesticulating …

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:48AM[SHARE]

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

"Peter and the Starcatcher" flies by Richard Scheinin

In the age of “Spider-Man” extravagance on Broadway, “Peter and the Star Catcher” Â is very minimal, very smart, very funny, totally charming and ingenious. I saw i…

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:05AM[SHARE]

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Theater in New York: "The Book of Mormon" by Richard Scheinin

By Richard Scheinin Mercury News Shall I count the ways in which I love "The Book of Mormon"? Well, there aren't that many. The musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of "South Pa…

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:31AM[SHARE]

Friday, April 15, 2011

Theater in New York: "Arcadia" by Richard Scheinin

By Richard Scheinin Mercury News Toward the end of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," we are told that, as human beings struggling through life, "It's the wanting to know that makes us matter." And i…

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:22AM[SHARE]

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Placido Domingo: world's most famous opera singer, in conversation by Richard Scheinin

Placido Domingo, world’s most famous opera singer, showed up for a press conference at War Memorial Opera House yesterday in a quality gray suit, and with a pale blue scarf draped arou…

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:32PM[SHARE]

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

"Anna Karenina": The other cast, and final thoughts by Richard Scheinin

The buildup to Opera San Jose's production of composer David Carlson's "Anna Karenina" was big -" lots of publicity and buzz, including much (written by me) in the Mercury News. It made sens…

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:49PM[SHARE]

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