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Alec Adams on November 10, 2021
Opera, perhaps the most disciplined and harrowing style of musical performance ever invented, has always had a hard time gripping American audiences for a pretty simple reason—most of them aren’t in English. Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, however, has been representing the language in opera for centuries. The story of a queen’s…
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Johnny Ray Huston on November 3, 2021
“What is it about queer people and horror?” Anthony Hudson asks over the phone from Portland, OR, answering his intriguing question a few moments later. “What I’ve learned is the whole genre is queer. The term subgenre is a misnomer.”
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Grace Stetson on November 3, 2021
Girl power stories have too often been few and far between but, reader, it’s 2021 and things are a-changing. For the Palo Alto Players’ 91st season, the organization hosts The Revolutionists, a female-focused comedy about four women during the French Revolution. The protagonists strive to live free and loud in the city…
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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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Mike Huguenor on October 27, 2021
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Roger Corman, Dementia 13 is the first feature by the legendary Bay Area resident and Godfather director. The horror/thriller also known as The Haunted and the Hunted tells the story of Louise Halloran: loving wife, grieving widow…and devious puller of strings. When…
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Grace Stetson on October 27, 2021
Dystopian tales are not out of the realm of reality in 2021—but, fortunately, this work of fiction is more sci-fi than reality. In advance of Halloween weekend, Stanford Live will host students, staff and community members with two performances of “War of the Worlds.” The performance—which comes to the States from a…
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Mike Huguenor on October 27, 2021
This Thursday, aesthetes with a taste for purer things will gather at Pruneyard Cinemas for the “Culinary Cinema” screening of Interview With the Vampire. The sumptuous 1994 film adaptation of Anne Rice’s debut novel is hosted by none other than the Queen of the Damned herself, Akasha—performed by living queen Alina Malletti…
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Alec Adams on October 20, 2021
Few live theater groups can claim to grind as hard as the Sunnyvale Community Players. They’ve been indefatigable since 1969 and even a global pandemic couldn’t shut them out. Hot off the heels of their West Side Story run, they’re back with the musical adaptation of Daniel Wallace’s novel Big Fish. The…
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Mike Huguenor on October 13, 2021
Jeffrey Lo has been dreaming about staging Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap since before the play was even published. “I watched a stage reading of an early draft maybe four or so years ago in San Francisco, while she was still revising and editing it,” Lo says. “For me, as an Asian…
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Jay Edgar on October 6, 2021
While he was plotting his first foray into writing a musical, theatrical wunderkind Justin Huertas fell in love with the folk band Joseph.
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