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Amani Hamed on August 25, 2021
Writer, actor and former emergency medicine doctor Fred Pitts would like you to know that he looks nothing like Will Smith. In his new one-man play Aren’t You…?—the first live performance at Palo Alto’s Lucie Stern Theater in over 18 months—Pitts chronicles his 2012 travels down the California coast to visit each…
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Wallace Baine on March 4, 2020
This latest production by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley—a Northern California premiere—tells the story of Jerrie Cobb, an accomplished aviator who might have become America’s first female astronaut, if she had only been given the chance. Inspired by Amelia Earhart, Cobb sought to become part of the Mercury space program in the early 1960s…
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
’Tis the season of Jane Austen, and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is spreading Victorian holiday cheer with the world premiere of Paul Gordon’s musical adaptation of the novel that follows Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett on their fraught road to romance. Gordon is a big fan of Austen’s work; this is the third…
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Wallace Baine on March 6, 2019
You’ve heard of Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis, but if you’re not a student of early rock & roll, you may not know much about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. A generation older than those landmark names, Tharpe was a critical influence on all of them, and to the development of the electric…
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Nick Veronin on April 26, 2018
Big hair and even bigger dreams collide in this jukebox musical set on the sensationally sleazy Sunset Strip in late-’80s Los Angeles. The production centers around Drew, an aspiring rock & roller, and Sherrie, an aspiring actress. The two fall for each other hard and fast. But living the fast life isn’t…
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Stephen Perez on February 16, 2018
Leonore’s husband, a Spanish nobleman named Florestan, has been sentenced to starve in prison for trying to expose a nefarious warden. And so, the brave and faithful Leonore infiltrates the fortress where her lover is being kept—by impersonating a young man named Fidelio. Now she’s on a mission to save her beloved…
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