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Warm and wonderful Christmas Memories
Penny Fuller as Sook and Gabriel Hoffman as Buddy (foreground) fly kites on Christmas morning while Joshua Park as older Buddy revisits the scene in A Christmas Memory, a TheatreWorks world-premiere...
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Taking Steps toward a lively evening
EXTENDED THROUGH FEB. 20! The stellar cast of TheatreWorks’ The 39 Steps comprises (from left) Rebecca Dines, Mark Anderson Phillips, Dan Hiatt and Cassidy Brown. Below: Dines and Phillips take a step...
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TheatreWorks designs with Sense and Sensibility
Jennifer Le Blanc (left) is Elinor, Stacy Ross (center) is Aunt Jennings and Mark Anderson Phillips is Colonel Brandon in the TheatreWorks production of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Photo by...
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Making a musical Garden grow
A well-tended garden: The cast of TheatreWorks’ The Secret Garden at the Lucie Stern Theatre. Photo by Mark Kitaoka The Secret Garden will always hold a special place in my heart. It was the first...
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TheatreWorks offers Variations on a scheme
With the help of her friend Gertie (Marie Shell, left), musicologist Dr. Katherine Brandt (Rosina Reynolds) races against time to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the life of Beethoven (Howard...
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TheatreWorks’ musical Earnest fun but unnecessary
The cast of TheatreWorks’ world-premiere musical Being Earnest includes, from left, Mindy Lym, Hayden Tee, Euan Morton and Riley Krull. Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is now set in 1965...
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Bouncy Island breezes blow at TheatreWorks
Ti Moune (Salisha Thomas) is lifted by the cast of Once This Island, a TheatreWorks production at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. Photo by Mark Kitaoka Last Saturday I reviewed the TheatreWorks...
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Sondheim marries love & lyrics in melodic TheatreWorks revue
A.J. Shively is “Him” and Sharon Rietkerk is “Her” in the two-person Stephen Sondheim musical Marry Me a Little, a TheatreWorks production running through June 29 at the Mountain View Center for the...
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Blitz bombs but TheatreWorks’ Sweeney still soars
Tonsorial expert Sweeney Todd (David Studwell) and Mrs. Lovett (Tory Ross) concoct a recipe for revenge in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a TheatreWorks production...
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TheatreWorks delights with devilish Angels
Rebecca Dines is Jane and Sarah Overman is Julia, best friends whose marriages are boring them to tears. In Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, a TheatreWorks production at the Mountain View Center for the...
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Catching up with Colette & Cyrano
Lorri Holt stars in and co-wrote Colette Uncesnored, the story of the infamous French novelist’s life as a writer, a woman, a pioneer for social change and a lover. The solo show runs through May 14...
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Love among the stars in TheatreWorks’ Constellations
Above and below: Cosmologist Marianne (Carie Kawa) and beekeeper Roland (Robert Gilbert) experience a multiverse of love in the Bay Area premiere of Nick Payne’s Constellations presented by...
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