EXTRA EXTRA – All You Need Is LUV

Nostalgic “LUV” story opens
Milpitas Post Staff
by W. Fred Crow
What’s love got to do with it? Well, everything and nothing, but it’s a great question asked and answered in Murray Schisgal’s stage play “LUV.” Northside Theatre Company Director Richard Orlando reached into the archives and brought Schisgal’s 45-year-old work to the stage. It once played to [...]

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Princess’ Pick – Good Impressions

I have a theory that comedy is not only contagious but can actually permeate through walls. This could explain why I sometimes just burst into laughter for no apparent reason. I’m fortunate to live just a few doors down from the IMPROV in San Jose,  which plays hosts to a wide variety of  some of [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA – Wives on the Run

When wives collide
Marital mishaps take the stage in trite but amusing tale of swinging London
by Karla Kane – Palo Alto Weekly
A South London cabbie called John Smith is a “quite ordinary” man who lives with his wife in a flat in Wimbledon. There’s also a cab-driving John Smith living with his wife in nearby Streatham.
The [...]

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Princess’ Pick – Comedy Goes Head to Head

 
Laughing, competition, audience participation, a concession stand, and a family-friendly (or opt for the not as PG midnight show) couple of hours. It’s kind of a perfect package. It’s called Comedy Sportz and it’s a fun and unique (and totally affordable) way to relax from the week. This past January the [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA – Lips Together Means HANDS TOGETHER!

Still poignant after all these years, Set in 1991, Terrence McNally play surprises with attitudes and prejudices that are alive today
by Jeanie Forte – Palo Alto Weekly
The Dragon Theatre in downtown Palo Alto is also the frequent home of theatre Q, which is currently taking us down memory lane with a play by Terrence McNally [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA – Midsummer Madness Mexico Style!

Review: Often-delightful ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ kicks off Shakespeare on the Square By Colin Seymour for the Mercury News 
A romantic trip to Chichen Itza is the often-delightful result of Arclight Repertory Theatre’s marriage to the Mexican Heritage Society. The collaborators have given Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” a Mayan love quadrangle, Mayan “rude mechanicals” and Puck [...]

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Tonys Deliver!

in case you missed them your full winner list is here: http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/winners.html  and some of the highlights can be seen below!

 

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Princess’ Pick –

Growing up with a dad from Texas there was a lot of BBQ, outdoors activities and plenty of John Wayne. Just say that with me. John Wayne. He’s got an airport named after him. He has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. He has an official Holiday in California (John Wayne Day, May [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA – Fautus puts the Pedal to the Metal!

Theater review: ‘Faustus’ at Foothill College.
By John Angell Grant- For the Daily News
AC/DC singing “Highway to Hell” is part of the heavy metal staging of Christopher Marlowe’s play “Faustus,” currently running in a strong student production at Foothill College. Playwright Marlowe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was a feisty, brawling guy who died at age 29 [...]

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The ART of IT – Mixology- A Study in Mixed Media

The Art of the drink is sometimes overlooked by the ethusiasm of the drinker. Down the hatches and chug, chug, chug may be all too often heard and thus the beauty of the way a drink is presented (not to mention the delicate, creative, and/or artistic nature housed in it’s taste) is missed.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Mixology (didn’t know there was [...]

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