Victor Cordell
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Annie Front Page
Touring show at Broadway San Jose
By: - Jan 12th, 2023So, what makes “Annie” so popular? Where to start? Set during the Great Depression and opening in an orphanage with conditions straight out of a Charles Dickens novel doesn’t seem a likely starting point.
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Poetic Justice - When Art Is Everything Front Page
Vignettes of Robert Lowell and Rainer Maria Rilke
By: - Jan 10th, 2023In short order, playwright Lynne Kaufman offers enticing insights into two contrasting, important modern poets, and the simple production succeeds through fine acting. This compact but impactful taste of familiarity fully satisfies on its own, while many attendees will want to learn even more about these fragile artists and their robust literary works.
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Beetlejuice Front Page
SF Broadway's Gleefully Ghoulish Ghost Story
By: - Dec 17th, 2022Ghosts. Dancing skeletons. A giant toothy snake from Hell, like Saturday Night Live’s land shark on steroids. “The Handbook for the Recently Deceased.” When the title character mirthfully tells the audience that this is a play about death, he’s not kidding. Fortunately, it’s all in good fun, and there is plenty of it in this delightfully camp musical adaptation of the highly successful 1988 comedy-horror film.
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Little Shop of Horrors Front Page
TheatreWorks' Bubbly Chinatown Adaptation
By: - Dec 06th, 2022Okay – let’s cut straight to the chase. The unique chronical of “Little Shop of Horrors” is laugh-out-loud funny; the music is foot-stomping energetic; the production is superb; and the performances are great. Did I miss anything? If you see this TheatreWorks production and disagree, check with your physician to make sure you have the pulse rate of a sentient being.
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Wuthering Heights Front Page
An irreverent Contemporary Musical Adaptation
By: - Dec 02nd, 2022This rendering must be measured by a very different yardstick than traditional versions. By a calculation based on contemporary sensibilities, Adaptor/Director Emma Rice’s innovation succeeds in providing a multifaceted entertainment executed with top rate professionalism.
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Orpheus and Eurydice Front Page
At San Francisco Opera
By: - Nov 28th, 2022Christoph Willibald Gluck’s contributions to opera extend beyond the merits of his individual operas. Like Richard Wagner a century later, Gluck conceived an intellectual framework that changed the opera landscape.
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Clue Front Page
The Theatrical Version of the Board Game and Movie
By: - Nov 03rd, 2022Murder! Mystery! Mayhem! are the order of the day (er – night) as Center Rep takes on the classic trapped-in-a-scary-mansion who-dunnit? Did the butler do it? In a play that relies on style rather than gravitas, Director Nancy Carlin pulls all the right strings to make for a fluffy and entertaining ninety minutes.
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