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Review: San Jose Stage’s ‘Avenue Q’ a fun, sweet production
In spite of Avenue Q’s teaser reputation as a Muppet satire packed with vulgarity, profanity and full puppet nudity, the dialogue and situations are quite tame by today’s HBO standards.
Symphony Silicon Valley wraps season with global flare
One of the highlights of the piece was a duet with Asarnow and Concertmaster Robin Mayforth on the violin that was both tranquil and moving.
Theater Review: ‘Tales of the City’ – It was worth the wait
This is a wonderfully edgy, quintessential San Francisco experience, embracing its eccentricity with a singular charm and an irrepressible, incandescent spirit.
First steps toward a life-changing move
When you sit quietly, pondering or visualizing where you could possibly live your best life, what do you see? Looking out the window, do you see trees, sandy beaches, snowy peaks, a body of water, a bustling street, or a neighborhood coffee shop?
Making room for life’s Bucket List experiences
When you are running from one thing to the next, the sheer volume of activities—good, bad, or indifferent—need time to settle.
Symphony Silicon Valley: Manasse and Nakamatsu impress
Without missing a stroke he exhausts the crowd with Tchaikovsky’s Allego Con Fuoco and then after the second standing ovation of the night presents an encore performance.
‘Curtains’ – Second-Tier offering from Kander and Ebb still entertains
Set as a murder mystery in Boston in the late ‘50s, this musical within a musical is an amusing send up and romp through a series of behind the scenes shenanigans.
Silk Stockings – Successful return of a forgotten musical
It’s been twenty years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and despite its undeniable shortcomings, capitalism as an economic model has been widely embraced by the former “Red” nation-states.
‘Altar Boyz’ in Palo Alto: Evangelism has never been more fun
The Palo Alto Players’ 80-year tradition of bringing exceptional theatre to the South Bay has never been more entertaining.
