Princess’ Pick – A Schorr Thing

I like visual art, but sometimes I have to admit I don’t understand it all. I am one of those people that looks at a painting and  ost of the time I think one of two things, 1) I can paint that and I can’t really draw a straight line so, really, what am I lookng [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA – The Sounds of Love and War

Young Love
War and meddling relatives stand in the way of two teens in TheatreWork’s ‘Tinyard Hill’ musical
By Jessica Fromm – METRO

A BOY FROM the wrong side of the tracks meets a prissy city girl who is on vacation in the Deep South. After much canoodling among the Spanish moss and adversity from parental figures, they [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA – Guide Yourself to Chaos

Girl Talk
Sexual confusion is laid bare at Palo Alto’s Dragon Theatre in ‘A Girl’s Guide to Chaos’
By Ben Marks – METRO

IN CYNTHIA HEIMEL’S A Girl’s Guide to Chaos, now playing at the Dragon Theatre in Palo Alto, the actors speak mostly in pithy aphorisms, delivering lectures and confessionals to the audience and each other in [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA – WE CAN HEAR YOU TOMMY

Boy Wonder
New City Lights production prompts the question: Why ‘Tommy’?
By Steve Palopoli – METRO
AMONG South Bay theater companies, City Lights regularly provides one of the most extraordinary mixes of cutting-edge material and professional production. Small enough to take risks, but big enough to pull them off, the company has been smart and nimble enough to [...]

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Princess’ Pick – Out of this World Entertainment

Astronomy, music, a nice mountain drive, a view, wine. Sounds great yeah? A bit of art, a bit of intellect, and a whole lot of awesome I say. And all available to you with complimentary glassware you can take home as a token of your evening. It’s enough to put stars IN your eyes. Boys, [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA – Eye “Popping” review of Art

Stanford’s essential overview of modern Pop art
Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic
Sunday, April 26, 2009
“Pop to the Present” comes third in a cycle of four exhibitions tracing the growth of Stanford’s Cantor Center for Visual Arts’ collection since the museum’s re-opening in 1999, following a decade of earthquake repairs and expansion.
As the title suggests, the present [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA – I’ll Second THAT!

Second City road trip encounters some bumps
By Karen D’Souza, Mercury News
Caution! Front-row seats to the Second City sketch comedy show now at San Jose Rep ought to come with a little warning. Nothing is off limits in this outrageous house of mirth.
Anyone with politically correct sensibilities and/or taste and decorum issues may be in for [...]

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EXTRA EXTRA- Bid on Forbidden

Broadway Babylon
SJ Rep presents Forbidden Broadway, a refreshingly vicious satire of the theater world
By By Steve Palopoli – Metro
SAN JOSE REPERTORY THEATRE is opening its doors to two touring companies this summer, and the first one is a riot. Forbidden Broadway, a long-running, rapid-fire spoof of all things musical, is a must for drama geeks, [...]

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Comission This – Ride of a Lifetime

There are few things that bring up both fear and joy the same way as travelling carnivals do. On the one hand you catch the lights of one of these adhoc amusement parks and you can smell the excitement of youth (which oddly enough smells a lot like funnel cakes and cotton candy). The nostalgia [...]

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