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Avi Salem on May 17, 2018
A multitude of words could describe the gay male experience at age 50, but playwright and actor Joe Gulla thinks it can be distilled down to just one: faggy. Gulla makes his Bay Area debut with his one-man monologue show, which describes in vivid, often cringeworthy, detail the trials and tribulations of…
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Stephen Perez on February 16, 2018
Born deaf and blind in the 19th century, a young girl is pitied by a family with no idea how to care for her. Believed to be a lost cause, she grows feral with no way to communicate her emotions. That all changes when a determined young teacher finds a way to…
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Kevin Hume on January 11, 2018
Students get detention for misbehaving. Anyone who’s seen The Breakfast Club knows that. But what happens to troublesome teachers? They too might wind up in a detention of their own. In the Tabard Theatre Company’s Evelyn in Purgatory, teacher Evelyn Reid is accused of misconduct by a failing student and finds herself…
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Payje Redmond on September 14, 2017
Before Peter could fly and James Hook lost his hand to a clock-gobbling croc, there was a nameless 13-year-old orphan and a pirate with a propensity for malaprops. In Peter and the Starcatcher, we learn how Peter became an ageless wonder, how Black Stache became Captain Hook and about the age-old war…
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Keyboardist Robert Glasper was in San Jose with his band the Robert Glasper Experiment for two shows at Theatre on San Pedro Square for San Jose Jazz Winter Fest.
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