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Theater

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Dan Hoyle’s ‘Border People’ stuns with critical contemplation of geographical, cultural experiences

Scene from the play "Border People"
Presidio Theater/Courtesy

This one-man production melds journalistic theater with comedy to analyze the sociopolitical impact of markers of division on individuals and communities.
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Theater

Tuesday, October 5, 2021
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High-energy, hilarious, heartfelt: San Jose Stage Company’s ‘The Great Leap’ flies high

“The Great Leap” takes place on a set that doesn’t change with only four actors moving about the space. Though it makes minimal use of props, the play never stopped being captivating and exciting.
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Thursday, March 14, 2019

Behind the Scenes: Dog Sees God

Get a behind the scenes look at BareStage Productions latest play, Dog Sees God!

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Sunday, December 2, 2018

TDPS presents ‘Tartuffe’ molieres classic comedy

Watch an extended in-depth look into the production of the Theatre, Dance, and and Performance Studies department’s comedic play as we talk to the director, stage designer, and actors!

Theater

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

‘Kiss,’ the play, phenomenally represents the struggle of cross-cultural communication

Context means everything when it comes to cross-cultural representation. Without context, the beauty and intention of art is lost; the artist is forgotten.
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Theater

Friday, August 31, 2018

‘You can’t Google context’: Director Evren Odcikin hopes to bring perspective with ‘Kiss,’ a Syrian play

Odcikin is an advocate for rehearsals being spaces for the very conversations that the play hopes to inspire among audience members.
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Theater

Monday, August 20, 2018

Lack of diversity in ‘#GetGandhi’ subverts feminist message

“#GetGandhi: A Seriously Radical Feminist Comedy” written by Anne Galjour and directed by Nancy Carlin is playing at Z Below in San Francisco through Aug. 26.
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Theater

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

‘Everybody’ features talented cast trapped in purgatory of a dated play

Perhaps the curse of every play about morality is that the lesson learned at the end of the play seems too simple to really be impactful.
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Theater

Monday, July 16, 2018

If Shakespeare had written a play about taxes, it may have looked like Synergy Theater’s spontaneous performance of ‘To Be Assessed’

The players emerged from backstage donning purple velvet pants, gold vests, blond wigs and puffy white shirts, and the crowd was welcomed to the Globe Theatre in the year 1608.
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Theater

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Bay Area Musicals outlines the monstrosities of man in ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’

Bringing such an epic tale to a small stage could easily have been an obstacle, but artistic director and choreographer Matthew McCoy uses it as an advantage to create an intimacy with the audience.
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