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Metro Staff on October 23, 2019
This ain’t your grandfather’s rock opera. The 50th anniversary tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s take on Jesus’ last days sports a contemporary look—including a clean-shaven Christ (Aaron LaVigne)—that uses updated production values to crank up the spectacle and appeal to today’s audiences. The story, told from the perspective of…
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Metro Staff on October 16, 2019
Honoring the past while looking to the future, sjDANCEco opens its 17th season with Etched in Time, a program featuring “The Exiles,” a Paradise Lost masterwork by José Limón, and a world premiere piece based upon the experiences of a DACA-Dreamer immigrant living in the US. The world premiere is by Gabriel…
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Metro Staff on October 16, 2019
Fresh off the release of his latest standup special, comedian Bill Burr brings his outrage to Silicon Valley. The hour-long Paper Tiger, released on Netflix in September, takes aim at political correctness. “Everything has become absolutes,” Burr says, railing against what he perceives to be wrongheaded stances on both the left and…
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Wallace Baine on October 9, 2019
For those who prefer their circuses old-school, Zoppé Italian Family Circus has a number for you: 1842. That’s when this traveling one-ring circus was established in Venice. Led by the multi-talented Nino the Clown—who happens to be part of the Zoppé family dynasty, which dates back six generations—Zoppé: An Italian Family Circus…
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C.J. Prusi on October 9, 2019
Celebrate Día de los Muertos with Teatro Visión’s evening of song, dance and story. Based on B. Traven’s novel, Macario tells the story of a poor woodcutter who dreams of a day without hunger. It has been adapted for the stage by Evelina Fernández, with original music by Russell Rodríguez, choreography by…
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I brought my sister out to the city so she could meet the charming, somewhat older Australian man I’d been dating for the past several months. It was supposed to be a fun night out, pub-crawling our way through downtown on a recent balmy summer evening as you got to know one…
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Metro Staff on October 2, 2019
If you missed veteran actor Dan Hiatt singing in ACT’s recent production of Vanity Fair, he leads the cast of Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman’s River of Song. Join Mark Twain and friends on this TheatreWorks Silicon Valley production as they travel down the Mississippi River singing traditional songs, including “Sometimes I…
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Wallace Baine on October 2, 2019
For the fourth straight year, downtown San Jose whips out its red, white and green to celebrate all things Italian. Restaurants and businesses from San Jose’s Little Italy district will be providing their best cuisine and wine. Live entertainment comes to you via Pasquale Esposito, the Anthony Nino Lane Band, Johnny Neri…
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C.J. Prusi on October 2, 2019
The Northside Theatre Company and director Meredith King celebrate the local company’s 41st season, kicking off their 2019-20 season with Doubt, A Parable. Set in a Catholic school in 1964, John Patrick Shanley’s 2005 Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play centers around suspicion, morality, entrenched power structures and the sinister, abusive actors that those…
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C.J. Prusi on October 2, 2019
Three decades after his death, Stanford Live brings Robert Mapplethorpe’s legendary photographs back to life. Created by composer (and guitarist for The National) Bryce Dessner, librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle and director Kaneza Schaal, Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) “explores the origins and impact of Mapplethorpe’s controversial photography.” A multimedia event, the…
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