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Grace Stetson on December 8, 2021
Music makes everything better—and what better way to learn about the first celebration of Chanukah than through a musical? This Sunday, 3Below hosts its final showing of the G-rated musical The MeshugaNutcracker!, a wild family-friendly comedy that provides viewers young and old a history lesson along with delightful orchestration. The masterful story…
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Mike Huguenor on November 17, 2021
The influence of South Bay drag queen Woo Woo Monroe can be felt all throughout the area’s drag community. As drag mother for the House of Woo, Monroe has put her beauty mark on numerous notable queens, like both Pam Cakes and Lemon Skweezy, who competed for glamorous kitchen supremacy earlier this…
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Metro Staff on December 18, 2019
For those depraved souls whose holiday tradition includes adult beverages and Bad Santa, there is a live theater show just for you. Who’s Holiday is a decidedly raunchy, not-for-kids take on the Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This one-woman show stars Shannon Guggenheim as the all-grown-up Cindy Lou Who—now…
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Richard von Busack on November 13, 2019
Naturally, South Bay denizens love sharks, but they might want to make an exception for Rosita (Romina Bentancur), the main character in the Uruguayan film Los Tiburones. She’s a sullen 14-ish girl at a faraway southern beach closed by shark activity, and she shares a shark’s ruthlessness and voraciousness: As director Lucia…
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Kael Austria on June 26, 2019
Cast those conceptions of the prim and proper fairytale princesses aside. These women don’t need to be saved, and they are certainly capable of doing more than cooking and cleaning. This critically acclaimed musical shines a spotlight on a number of iconic Disney heroines, allowing them to tell their own stories. Uncensored,…
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Anne Gelhaus on March 20, 2019
Hailed by the New York Times as the “greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx’s material,” Frank Ferrante portrays the young Groucho of stage and film, while reacquainting the audience with brothers Harpo and Chico as well as the much-maligned Zeppo and the rarely seen Gummo. Ferrante also invokes his peers Charlie Chaplin,…
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Anne Gelhaus on March 20, 2019
Leo Tolstoy’s novel, first published as a serial from 1875-1877, has inspired more than 30 screen adaptations, a play and a ballet, but it is only recently that the tragic love story has been set to music. The Moscow Operetta Theatre’s version of Anna Karenina opened in October 2016, and 3Below is…
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Wallace Baine on December 13, 2018
For those depraved souls whose holiday tradition includes adult beverages and Bad Santa, there is a live theater show just for you. Who’s Holiday is a decidedly raunchy, not-for-kids take on the Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This one-woman show stars Shannon Guggenheim as the all-grown-up Cindy Lou Who—now…
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Nick Veronin on October 10, 2018
When Charles Dickens gave up the ghost in 1870, he left more than a literary legacy in his wake. He also left an unfinished novel. The Mystery of Edwin Drood tells the story of a suspicious death and the ensuing investigation. But there’s a hitch: Dickens died before he had a chance…
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Dominoe Ibarra on August 23, 2018
This year marks the 40th anniversary of longtime San Jose denizen Henry Mollicone’s opera. Based upon a famous poem about a Manhattan urban legend from the 19th century, it’s the story of two love triangles, separated by 100 years and revolving around a cryptic painting on a barroom floor. The entire tale…
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