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PRINCESS PICK – EVENT ALERT – DESSERT & CLASSICAL MUSIC PAIRING – MISSION...
Sometimes you come across an event that is so great that you wish you could just magically make it appear on everyone’s social calendar. Or stand on a corner with a big sign that just says “Seriously,...
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REVIEW – Vladimir Gorbach – GuitarFest 2013 – South Bay Guitar Society
The Classical guitar station on Pandora has been a bit of a saving grace for me the last few months. It’s my go-to relaxation and motivational background music these days. The score of my internal...
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REVIEW – THE CITIZEN – CINEQUEST – GUEST REVIEW BY W. Fred Crow
What Americans casually take for granted remains the desperate and determined dream of many outside the nation’s borders. Freedom. Freedom to live, love, and laugh – to make of life whatever one...
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REVIEW – John and Jen – HILLBARN THEATRE
I’d generally consider myself an escapist when it comes to theater. I like to laugh, learn, be thrilled and occasionally fall in love when I attend a production. Given a choice, I don’t often...
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REVIEW- Disconnect – San Jose Rep
There’s perfect metaphor for every live theater experience and for the San Jose Rep’s Disconnect, this metaphor was a giant novelty gumball machine. While that should be a totally sufficient...
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REVIEW- I HATE HAMLET – BROADWAY WEST THEATRE COMPANY
If I could make a living laughing, I totally would. If laughing could actually pay the bills, dude, I’d be all over that. I’d be first to claw my way to the front of the line to apply and I’d make damn...
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REVIEW- BLUE MAN GROUP – BROADWAY SAN JOSE
Aside from an unexpected and upsetting allergic reaction to Dramamine one time, I’ve never done hallucinogenic drugs, nor do I condone their use, but having seen Blue Man Group, I kinda feel like I...
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REVIEW – Jane Austen’s Persuasion – San Jose Stage
There were two very short periods in my life when I read for pleasure. 8th grade, when a very smart teacher introduced me to the likes of fantasy/sci-fi authors Anne McCaffrey, Piers Anthony, Douglas...
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REVIEW – HEDDA GABLER – CITY LIGHTS THEATER COMPANY
Move over Joan Collins. Take a number Omarosa. Not so fast Mommy Dearest. Don’t call us, we’ll call you Scarlett O’Hara. If anything opens up in the cray-cray division we’ll let you women know, but...
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REVIEW – Miss Saigon – Palo Alto Players
Miss Saigon is a show that for any production team is, at its core, the very definition of ambitious. It’s a big show, not just logistically, physically and technically, but emotionally. It’s freaking...
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REVIEW- The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus – San Jose Repertory Theatre
A play is like kind of like a recipe. You take some ingredients, you mix them all about, you let it bake, you serve it up and you hope that everyone (whose taste buds are as individual as finger...
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REVIEW – Eurydice – Douglas Morrisson Theatre
I don’t consider myself to be a very emotional being. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I’m intuitive and perceptive with regard to emotion, I’m just not easily or often found actually exhibiting...
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REVIEW – Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman – City Lights Theater...
Dear Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman at City Lights Theater Company, I would like you to be my boyfriend. I know that’s a super odd request because, well, I’m a girl (though some would say...
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REVIEW – GREEN DAY’S AMERICAN IDIOT – BROADWAY SAN JOSE
It was a sad, sad day in my history this week. Please, bow your head in a moment of silence for my youth. Time of death; Tuesday, June 4th, 7:41pm while attending Broadway San Jose’s production of...
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REVIEW- REEFER MADNESS: THE MUSICAL – SAN JOSE STAGE
I found myself feeling a bit faint last weekend. Light headed, weak and strangely humorless. Sluggish even when you come right down to it. So, I went through the regular self-diagnosis, as you do, to...
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REVIEW – Boeing, Boeing – Palo Alto Players
Not unlike air-travel during the holidays, the lead up to my arrival at Boeing, Boeing was quite the adventure. While parking was a challenge to begin with (there was a wedding in addition to the...
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REVIEW – A Minister’s Wife – San Jose Repertory Theatre
Somehow I’ve made it through life as double English and Drama major, audience member and longtime theater participant without ever having seen or read a version of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida. While...
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ANNOUNCEMENT- SILICON VALLEY SMALL THEATRE AWARDS – 2012-2013 HONOREES!
And, so another 12 months has gone by and another meeting of the SVSTA panel has taken place. This year I’m told brought very strong feelings and divided the group, making it exciting to select...
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PRINCESS PICKS – FALL (AND BEYOND) ARTS PREVIEW
Oh, the mountains of awesome that abound in this region. September is like the new December for me. The announcement of seasons and festivals and fun are better than any presents under a tree or...
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REVIEW- Happy Days – Stanford Summer Theater
My parents like to tell the story of coming in to check on me when I was a baby and quite often finding me wide awake, happy as a lark, just babbling to myself in my crib. What I was saying or...
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