Tristan & Yseult

Kneehigh is back! Britain’s beloved theatre company returns to the Bay Area with a glorious story of love. King Mark rules with his head, until he falls head over heels for his enemy’s sister. Based on an ancient tale from Cornwall, Tristan & Yseult revels in forbidden desires, broken hearts, grand passions, and tender truths. It’ ( Read more... )

Warrior Class
By Kenneth Lin

Son of Chinese immigrants, decorated vet, and a charismatic speaker, congressional candidate Julius Lee is dubbed “The Republican Obama.” But when word of a youthful indiscretion threatens scandal, he discovers the dangerous intersection of politics and idealism. In this taut, topical saga of backroom electioneering, ( Read more... )

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Of Mice and Men

Tonight I watched a stage production of Of Mice and Men with Jeans. It’s one of my favorite novellas; in it, John Steinbeck really captured a perfect balance of humor and pathos. I think it’s the perfect representation of the power of the American Dream, as well as the brutal reality of the world - we can’t all live in a dream.

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ROMEO AND JULIET

A love to die for
When you are passionately, purely in love, nothing else matters-not even life itself. Shakespeare’s consummate tragedy of young lovers swept into a catastrophic vortex of misunderstandings, secrets and fate is set in 1840s Alta California-a vibrant and conflicted time in our history. Romeo and Juliet, the son and ( Read more... )

WHITE SNAKE

Serpent spirits, meddling monks
In a beloved Chinese legend, a snake spirit disguised as a beautiful woman falls in love with a young scholar. White Snake keeps her true identity secret from him, but a disapproving monk persists in unmasking her. With the help of Green Snake, White Snake summons all her magic powers to defeat the spirits ( Read more... )

ANIMAL CRACKERS

Hello, I must be going!
Hurrah for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer, skirt chaser and wise-cracking guest of honor at a posh Long Island house party. High jinks meet high society when he and his cronies mix it up with social climbers and stolen paintings. Written for the Marx Brothers, this slapstick madcap musical busts out ( Read more... )