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Many theater companies take a break during the summer months and send audiences into the great outdoors for some Shakespeare or Mime Troupe action.
But San Jose Repertory Theatre is launching what it calls a “Summer Blockbuster Series.”
The two-show series opens July 7 with Forbidden Broadway — 25th Anniversary Tour. Gerard Allessandrini’s legendary revue that lampoons [...]
Last week, Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, awarded the annual Scholarships for the Arts from the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this season.
From nine high school senior finalists — three in each category of dance, acting and voice — three were selected as [...]
You’ve heard about monsters being unleashed and wreaking havoc in New York? Well, Beth Wilmurt was just such a monster.
The San Francisco-based actor played a ferocious dragon in the final scenes of Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, the Shotgun Players/Banana Bag & Bodice musical that headed to New York after its award-winning birth in [...]
From the ashes of the American Musical Theatre of San Jose rises a whole new series bringing Broadway tours to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, and it’s called Broadway San Jose.
A Nederlander Presentation, part of the national Nederlander Organization, is the producing agency that will bring in the shows starting in September [...]
Last Saturday night, the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s one and only transport van was stolen. In preparation for this summer’s road tour around the Bay Area, the Troupe had just outfitted the blue 1994 seven-passenger Chevy with new tires. The van was parked in the South Mission/Excelsior area waiting to be loaded up with equipment [...]
I wrote a feature on New Conservatory Theatre Center’s Some Men by Terrence McNally for today’s San Francisco Chronicle.
You can read it here.
Here are a few pieces of my interview with Mr. McNally that didn’t make it into the newspaper.
In addition to Some Men opening this week at the NCTC, McNally has a few other [...]
If you want a big, dramatic scene involving John Rosenberg smashing things on his way out the door, you better look elsewhere.
About three years ago, along with Tore Ingersoll-Thorp and Damian Lanahan Kalish, Rosenberg founded Sleepwalkers Theatre, a group committed to producing new work by new authors. The trio had been in what they considered [...]
Anthony Rapp (left) is Mark, Lexi Lawson (center) is Mimi and Adam Pascal is Roger in the latest national touring company of the rock musical Rent, coming to San Francisco’s Curran Theatre in October. Photo by Joan Marcus
You’re never too old to play a Bohemian 20something who can’t pay the rent.
At least that’s the theory [...]
The cast of Killing My Lobster’s KML Hits Highway 101 includes (from left) Christine Bullen, Callum Grant, Leslie Waggoner, Andy Alabran and Nick A. Olivero. Photo by Ashley Forrette.
In the green rehearsal room that also doubles as official headquarters for veteran San Francisco sketch comedy crew Killing My Lobster, actors and their director are warming [...]
Italian actor/writer/director Roberto Benigni has had some cinematic difficulty since his Academy Award-winning Life Is Beautiful came out more than a decade ago.
He was incredibly creepy as Pinocchio in a 2002 Italian movie he also directed, and just try and remember anything about his 2005 movie The Tiger and the Snow.
In this cinematic lull, Benigni [...]
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