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Alec Adams on November 3, 2021
That old guy Bill Shakespeare—what a card. I’m led to believe he wrote a lot of well-liked plays, so much so that a whole tradition of critically acclaimed plays exist in the space around his work. 1966 saw Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and in 2018 Lauren Gundersen’s The Book…
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Metro Staff on February 26, 2020
When Charles Dickens died 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. Dickens died before he had a chance to write the ending, and several writers…
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Mike Huguenor on February 27, 2019
The story of seed funding, corruption and dirty money, Bullets Over Broadway is a musical many in Silicon Valley could stand to sit through. Though Woody Allen’s story is decidedly comedic (a playwright-meets-the-mob story), it’s also pretty damn allegorical in an area where creative ideas are often funded by less than humanistic…
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Tad Malone on December 5, 2018
After last year’s successful holiday run, TheatreWorks in partnership with Foothill College is bringing David Sedaris’ classic tale of working as a mall Santa’s grumpy little helper back for a second offering. Born out the writer’s real experiences as a curmudgeonly elf in New York City in the early ’90s, Santaland Diaries’…
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Tad Malone on October 31, 2018
Foothill College Theatre Art’s latest production is a journey through the relationship between siblings and their obsessions. Penned by award-winning playwright Qui Nguyen (best known for her work Vietgone), She Kills Monsters is a hilarious romp across a fantastical world—filled with fairies, elves, ogres and… evil cheerleaders. The play follows Agnes as…
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