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Broadway West Theatre - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Cuckoo’s Nest at Broadway West: Timeless story about the indomitability of the human spirit

The creative design elements of the shocking opening scene augur well for what is yet to come.
Teatro ZinZanni Caliente - San Francisco

Teatro ZinZanni San Francisco: ‘Caliente’ heats up the Spiegeltent

The three hour show included all that we love about ZinZanni - a great 5 course meal, crowd involvement in riotous competitions and performances, spell binding acts, and even the train transformed into a Mexican themed event.
Equus

Theater Review: ‘Equus’ at City Lights, San Jose

This multi-layered tale of a young man’s mental instability is perfectly delivered by one of the most stellar casts that City Lights Theatre has put together this year.
Fiddler on the Roof

Theater Review: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Broadway San Jose

It is a testament to the universality of the family of man that this endearing story, steeped in Jewish traditions from the shetls of Eastern Europe, is so meaningful to audiences everywhere.
Shane Fahy and Conor Hamill in THE DUMB WAITER

Theater Review: ‘Sex and Death: A night with Harold Pinter’

Pinter’s examination of the games that people play suggests that one’s emotions are not so easily compartmentalized.
Soul Surfer - Movie

Inspiring: Cinequest Film Festival closes with ‘Soul Surfer’

Soul Surfer is the incredible, true story of thirteen year old champion surfer Bethany Hamilton’s (AnnaSophia Robb) inspiring recovery from a terrifying shark attack that took her left arm.
Loreto - Sea of Cortez

In Loreto – HOA annual meeting week

The wind has made for some very dramatic wave action.

Review: ‘Compleat Female Stage Beauty’ at City Lights Theater

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven."
Private Eyes

Theater Review: ‘Private Eyes’

When nothing is what it seems and everything is subject to question.

Theater Review: ‘Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party’

This highly amusing satire on the state of our current political discourse is really about intolerance, bigotry and hypocrisy, in no particular order.