May 284 min read"Galileo: A Rock Musical" show #888Berkeley Repertory Theatre has premiered a new rock musical by Danny Strong (Book), Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak (Music and Lyrics) that...
Sep 21, 20233 min read"Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical," show #871Two things can be true at the same time. Don Cornelius was an often revered man who made Soul Train, a television show celebrating music...
Sep 21, 20233 min read"Noises Off," show #870When the Municipal Theatre presents their love story-gone-wrong, Nothing On, audiences are treated to a tech rehearsal—but it might be a...
Feb 10, 20232 min read"The Play That Goes Wrong," show #859When the star of a play is the set, one must rely on a cast that supports that set as well as top-of-the-line scenic designers. The...
Feb 8, 20233 min read"Picasso at the Lapin Agile," show #858I went into Los Altos Stage Company’s production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile completely cold to the script. I’d heard about it, I...
Jul 22, 20224 min read"Fun Home," show #845It’s not often a graphic novel-memoir gets the stage adaptation treatment, let alone a musical stage adaptation, let alone a Tony-winning...
Jul 21, 20223 min read"Follies"Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman were on to something when they wrote Follies. Often cited as among Sondheim’s top scores, Follies...
Jun 20, 20224 min read"Ragtime," show #842TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is running an intimately cast but mightily performed production of the modern epic musical, Ragtime. I use...
Feb 11, 20223 min read"Freestyle Love Supreme," show #827I coach the Improv team at the high school I teach; I took a whole quarter of Improv in my college theatre program; I can’t freestyle or...
Dec 16, 20213 min read"My Fair Lady" show #825I am of the Golden Age fandom who thinks My Fair Lady is a wonderfully entertaining musical which will be lost to time in the nearing...